Commitment to Galicia Compromiso por Galicia | |
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| Abbreviation | CxG |
| Spokesperson | Juan Carlos Piñeiro |
| Founded | 2012 (2012) |
| Headquarters | c/ Rúa dos Concheiros, 27 - 2º dereita;Santiago de Compostela |
| Youth wing | Galician Nationalist Youth |
| Membership(2019) | 400[1] |
| Ideology | Progressivism Galician nationalism Europeanism Republicanism Until 2019: Social democracy[2] |
| Political position | Centre[3] tocentre-left[4][5] |
| European affiliation | European Democratic Party |
| Colors | Green |
| Congress of Deputies | 0 / 350 |
| Spanish Senate | 0 / 266 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 61 |
| Mayors[6] | 1 / 313 |
| Town councillors | 21 / 3,721 |
| Website | |
| compromiso.gal | |
Commitment to Galicia (Spanish:Compromiso por Galicia,CxG) is aGalician political party with aGalician nationalist,progressive ideology.
CxG proposed to reform the Galician electoral law to create a singleGalician constituency, in both the autonomic and general elections, the implementation ofopen lists as well asopen government and promoting citizenship participation by the ILPs, the removal of theprovinces and the limitation of mandates of the elected officials.
CxG considers Galicia as a "nation in terms society and culture". Unlike other Galician nationalist organizations, CxG does not want independence or totalsovereignty for Galicia,[7] but amultinational andrepublican Spain.[8] The party also accepts capitalism, but defends a strongwelfare state andsocial democratic public policies.[9] The party is alsopro-European.[10]
The party was formed in December 2012, in its first National Congress. The previous organizations were partially dissolved,[11] not allowing the new organization double militancy.
The party was formed after the rupture ofMáis Galiza with theGalician Nationalist Bloc. Máis Galiza had contacts with other Galician nationalist forces likeEncontro Irmandiño orEspazo Ecosocialista Galego in order to form a new Galician nationalist organization, alternative to the Galician Nationalist Bloc. In May 2012 Máis Galiza announced the creation of Compromiso por Galicia,[12] along withEspazo Ecosocialista Galego. TheGalician Nationalist Party-Galicianist Party (PNG-PG)[13] also joined the project. The historicalGalician Coalition (CG) was also interested, having attended their leaders to acts of the new organización. On 21 June 2012 CxG announced the incorporation of a sector of the collectiveUnity of the Galician Left, a splinter group of theSocialists' Party of Galicia based mainly inVigo, including the Socialist ex-deputy Miguel Barros.
Encontro Irmandiño, also a split from the BNG, and led theXosé Manuel Beiras, also showed willingness to come together in a common organization, but suggested that the project had to be created from base assemblies, and not from agreements between the leaders of the organizations. At the meetings of the Encontro Irmandiño, that allowed free participation, there were some tensions with the militants of theGalician People's Front (FPG) andCausa Galiza,anticapitalist and pro-independence organizations.[14] This process culminated in the creation of two differentiated project: Compromiso por Galicia andAnova-Nationalist Brotherhood.
In the2012 elections to the Parliament of Galicia, CxG presented its own list, despite having announced plans to present a "technical coalition" withAnova-Nationalist Brotherhood,United Left andEquo.[15] Meanwhile,Espazo Ecosocialista Galego left the party in September 2012, to join theGalician Left Alternative coalition.[16] After the elections, in which CxG only gained 14,459 votes (1.01%),Terra Galega, which was incorporated in August,[17] left the party to form its own Galiciancentrist and Galician nationalist political party.
In theEuropean Parliament elections of 2014 CxG formed a coalition withConvergence and Union, theBasque Nationalist Party andCanarian Coalition, known asCoalition for Europe. In Galicia Coalition for Europe won 9,812 votes (0.96%).
In thelocal elections of 2015 the party presented 40 lists[18] (out of 314 municipalities in Galicia) and participated in a coalition.[19][20] CxG also supported 18 independent lists in other municipalities.[21] Finally CxG-CCTT gained 41 town councillors and the mayors ofLalín,Miño,Muros andVilar de Santos. The election of the mayor ofMiño was very polemic because the list of CxG in that municipality was the least voted in the 2015 election, but thePeople's Party decided to vote for the candidate of CxG to avoid the candidate of theSpanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) getting elected.[22]
In 2017 Juan Carlos Piñeiro was elected as the new secretary-general of CxG.[23]
In December 2019, the party joined theEuropean Democratic Party.[24]
| Election | Votes | % | Leader | Seats |
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| 2012 Galician parliamentary election | 14,586 | 1.01 | Xoán Bascuas | 0 / 75 |
| European Parliament election, 2014 | 9,812 | 0.96 | Xoán Bascuas | 0 / 56 |
| 2015 Spanish local elections | 17,592 | 1.19 | Xoán Bascuas | 41 / 3,766 |
| 2016 Galician parliamentary election | 4,109 | 0.29 | Xoán Bascuas | 0 / 75 |
| 2019 Spanish local elections | 7,183 | 0.48 | Juan Piñeiro | 21 / 3,721 |