Land Party

Land Party Partido da Terra
President	Iolanda Aldrei
Secretary General	Joám Evans Pim
Founded	25 July 2011
Headquarters	Rianxo, Galicia
Newspaper	O Peteiro
Ideology	Direct democracy, green politics, ruralism, reintegrationism, cooperativism
Colours	blue and green
Website
http://www.partidodaterra.net/
Politics of Galicia Political parties

The Land Party (Galician: Partido da Terra, pronounced: [pɐɾˈtido dɐ ˈtɛrɐ], literally Party of the Land), is a Galician political party established in 2011.

Party platform

The party's platform encompasses eight 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; environmental sovereignty, defending a self-sufficient sustainable living with the application of appropriate technology; food and energy sovereignty, calling both for food sovereignty through local food consumption and sustainable agriculture; economic sovereignty, proposing community-based economics including some cooperativist elements of distributism and green economics; social sovereignty, introducing a communitarian ethics of care; cultural sovereignty, emphasizing Galiza's Atlantic connections and bioregionalism; and linguistic sovereignty, with an explicit support for linguistic reintegrationism and closer ties with the Lusophone or Portuguese-speaking world.^[1] The party also has an advanced platform regarding peak oil policies and the Oil Depletion Protocol.^[2]

History and Elections

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.^[3] In March 2012 it did run for the Elections to the General Council of the Principality of Asturias, but only in the Western electoral district where the Galizan-speaking Eo-Navia region is located, gaining no seats. ^[4] In October 2012 it contested the Galizan Parliamentary Election obtaining 3,307 votes (0,22%) and ranking as 7th extraparliamentary party (2nd among the votes issued by Galizan citizens abroad) out of a total of 26 groups running in the elections.

See also

External links

• Partido da Terra

References