| Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds | |
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| President | Joan Saura i Laporta |
| Secretary-General | Joan Herrera i Torres |
| Founded | February 23, 1987 |
| Headquarters | C/Ciutat, 7 08002 Barcelona |
| Ideology | Green politics Ecosocialism Catalan nationalism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| International affiliation | Global Greens |
| European affiliation | European Green Party |
| European Parliament Group | European Greens–European Free Alliance |
| Official colours | Green, Red |
| Local Government |
451 / 66,046
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| Parliament of Catalonia |
10 / 135
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| Congress of Deputies |
2 / 350
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| Spanish Senate |
1 / 264
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| European Parliament |
1 / 50
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| http://www.iniciativa.cat/ | |
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Initiative for Catalonia Greens (Catalan: Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds, ICV; IPA: [inisiəˈtiβə pər kətəˈɫuɲə ˈβɛrts]) is a political party in Catalonia, Spain. It was formed as a merger of Iniciativa per Catalunya and Els Verds. IC had been an alliance led by Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya and was the equivalent of Izquierda Unida in Catalonia. IC later developed into a political party, and PSUC was dissolved.
The youth of ICV is called Joves d'Esquerra Verda (Green Left Youth). It used to be called JambI, Joves amb Iniciativa (Youth with Initiative).
In the elections to the European Parliament in 2004 ICV ran on the Izquierda Unida list. One MEP, Raül Romeva, was elected from ICV which joined the Green Group.
The ICV formed part of the past ruling tripartite coalition (along with the Socialists' Party of Catalonia and the Republican Left of Catalonia, a left-wing Catalan Nationalist Party) in the Generalitat of Catalonia. The coalition governed Catalonia from 2004-2010. ICV was given responsibility for the Ministry of the Environment in the share-out of power in the new government.
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Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds calls itself an "ecosocialist" party and their members are therefore, the "ecosocialists". This ideology is summarized in the book "The ecosocialist manifesto" (Spanish edition ISBN 84-87567-34-7), co-written by a number of left-wing green politicians. This ideology looks to renew the left and is firmly against communism as practised in the former Soviet Union and against capitalism, as practised by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, but also against social democracy, which is only a lesser evil, but does not respond to the environmental and social challenges ahead. From the ecosocialist point of view, both communism and capitalism are two faces of the productivism "mode of production" (a marxist term), which should be phased out if our planet is to survive. According to this book, this ideology is also deeply feminist and pro "freedom of the European peoples" (i.e. pro self-determination for the Basque Country, Corsica or Catalonia herself).
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