| Land Party Partido da Terra |
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| President | Francisco Paradelo |
| Secretary General | Joám Evans Pim |
| Founded | 25 July 2011 |
| Headquarters | Rianxo, Galiza |
| Ideology | direct democracy, green politics, ruralism, reintegrationism, cooperativism |
| International affiliation | Convergência Lusófona |
| Official colours | blue and green |
| Politics of Galicia Political parties |
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The Land Party or Earth Party (Portuguese: Partido da Terra, pronounced: [pɐɾˈtido dɐ ˈtɛrɐ]), is a Galician political party established in 2011.
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The party's platform encompasses six types of sovereignty: citizen sovereignty, which calls for a political reform based on direct democracy, incorporating advanced proposals of participatory democracy; territorial sovereignty, where a localist administrative reform that builds upon communalism, libertarian municipalism and cellular democracy is proposed; food and energy sovereignty, calling both for food sovereignty through local food consumption and sustainable agriculture and a self-sufficient sustainable living with the application of appropriate technology; economic sovereignty, proposing community-based economics including some cooperativist elements of distributism and green economics; social sovereignty, introducing a communitarian ethics of care; and cultural sovereignty, emphasizing Galiza's Atlantic and Lusophone connections, linguistic reintegrationism and bioregionalism.[1]
The Partido da Terra held its founding meeting in Santiago de Compostela on July 25, 2011, Dia Nacional de Galicia ("National Day of Galicia") and was formally registered in the Spanish Ministry of Interior the same week. The party includes mostly independent members but also incorporated the Galician Ecologist Movement (Movimento Ecologista Galego), a registered green party founded in 1983 by Constantino Rábade.
The party declared its intention to run in the Spanish general election, 2011 calling for the creation of coalition of Galician political parties under the designation Plataforma Cívica Galega, which was not finally established due to lack of understanding with other groups.[2]