Popular party (Spain)

See also: Popular party, PP

The Spanish Popular party ( Partido Popular - PP) is a right party, Chrétien-démocrate, member of the European Popular party.

Resulting from Popular Alliance (AP), party founded by Manual Fraga, former minister of Free, PP was with the capacity in Spain between 1996 and 2004 under the 2 mandates of Jose Maria Aznar.

Areas of Castille-and-León, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre, Valence and Rioja, like several big cities (whose Madrid, Valence, Malaga, Murcie, Alicante, Valladolid, etc) is directed by members of the Popular party.

Its current president is Mariano Rajoy.

PP in the opposition (2004 -…)

It loses the elections of March 14th, 2004, in particular following a very bad management of the consecutive crisis to the attacks of March 11th in Madrid, in particular by lies reiterated in its declarations concerning the terrorist attacks which it wanted to rather charge to the ETA qu with Al-Quaida (cf Ángel Acebes). The Socialistes will become victorious poll.

Since March 2004, PP becomes the greatest opposition party with the Congress of the Deputies (with 148 elected officials out of 350) and is only with 4 seats of the absolute majority to the Senate (with 126 senators out of 259). Since 2004, PP is opposed frontally to the government, in particular against the right to the Mariage and the Adoption for the Homosexuels, of the return of the troops of the Spanish army of Iraq, of the reform of the statute of autonomy of the Catalogne, of the reform of denominational teaching at the public school, as well as negotiations aiming to the abandonment of violence by the Basque separatist organization ETA.

At the the European Parliament, this party sits in the group of the EPP, with 24 appointed .

Eminent members of the Popular party

External bonds

  • www.pp.es Official site of the Popular party

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