Republican Alternative (Spain)

Republican Alternative Alternativa Republicana
Abbreviation	ALTER
General Secretary	Fernando Fernández Rodríguez
Founded	29 May 2013[1]
Headquarters	C/ Maestro Tomás Bretón nº 2 - 2º D, Málaga
Ideology	Republicanism Socialism Federalism Laïcité Eco-socialism Feminism
Political position	Left-wing
National affiliation	Irabazi (2015) Zaragoza en Común (2015) Canarias Decide (2015) Feminist Republican Alliance (with PFE)(2021)
Colours	Politics of Spain Political parties Elections

Republican Alternative (Spanish: Alternativa Republicana, ALTER) is a Spanish political party formed in 2015 by the merger of various small left-wing republican parties. The Left Republican Party (Catalan: Partit Republicà d'Esquerra, PRE) is its branch in Catalonia.

History

AR was formed by Spanish Republican Democratic Action, a faction of Republican Left and the Catalan Left-wing Republican Party. The founding congress was held in Vallecas on May 25 and 26, 2013.^[2] In its Statutes, AR is ideologically defined as left-wing, democratic, republican, radical, secular, federalist and environmentalist.^[3]

In the municipal elections of 2015, AR gained two local councillors, Pedro Gómez in Segorbe (Valencian Community)^[4][5] and Gabriel Salguero Lafuente in Montgat (Catalonia).^[6]

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