Talk:List of political parties in Spain

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I have added all the parties from my absentee voter package for the 2004 Spanish General Election — Miguel 22:04, 2004 Mar 6 (UTC)

Where do parties with representation only in local councils (ayuntamientos, cabildos) fit? In subsection Minor parties? Or should we ignore them (there'd be many)?--Erri4a 00:08, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I would err on the side of listing them among major parties for the time being if you know where they are represented. Then we can think about a better classification.

I think we need to be a little more explicit about what legislative bodies each major party is represented in.

Also, the Batasuna cluster is a mess. I wanted to include HZ among the major partis even though it was made illegal before it could earn any seats in an election. When 10% of Basques still vote for them after their list is made illegal (thereby making their vote null) you have to acknowledge that they are a major political party. Someone removed them from the list because they did not have any seats, though. — Miguel 00:51, 2004 Nov 29 (UTC)

I moved HZ from Major to Minor parties, believing the criterium was current actual representation, despite AuB and HZ have had more votes than other parties considered here as major. Maybe we could use the amount of votes to determine wether a party is major or not, or use a combination of several criteria. However, HZ would anyway be a minor party when compared to other obataining nine or ten million votes. I put Euskal Herritarrok in HZ's place cause current representatives of Sozialista Abertzaleak in Basque Parliament were elected in a EHk list.--Erri4a 17:53, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

That was the criterion, but I think we both agree that the situation in the greater basque country is such that this criterion does not accurately reflect reality, and we need to come up with a different criterion. The reality is, the Abertzale left has easily up to 15% support in the Basque country (taking the EH electoral result during ETA's 1999 truce), and a hard core of about 10% (to judge for the vote in the last two occasions when their lists were made illegal).

The peperos would probably ask for my head on a platter for writing this, hehe ;-) That's how messed up the situation is after the latest round of anti-nationalist legislation. — Miguel 18:35, 2004 Nov 29 (UTC)

To address this issue, I was thinking we could make a table listing one party/coalition per row, and having a column for the number of seats in various bodies, like this:

party Name	Number of seats				Notes
	European parliament	Cortes Generales	Regional Parliaments	Local bodies
Partido partidista	10	Senate: 10 Congress: 10	My autonomy: 10 Your autonomy:10	Too many to list	Formerly in coalition with Partido partidario

What do you think? — Miguel 03:19, 2004 Nov 29 (UTC)

I don't doubt it'll be interesting, but it's a lot of work and will need several up-to-date revisions per year.--Erri4a 17:53, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Western Sahara was a Spanish territory until 1975. So Polisario Front, or "Frente Polisario", or "Frente Popular de Liberación de Saguía el Hamra y Río de Oro" ("People's Liberation Front of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro") was a political movement in Spain at that time. Now the Polisario is not defunct, neither Spanish. Where should we mention it?--Erri4a 00:08, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I unsuccessfully tried to list Western Sahara as a territorial dispute in which Spain is involved, and they wouldn't let me, so I don't know. You could list Frente Polisario under Morocco and Western Sahara. — Miguel

[edit] Valencian Union

Valencian Union isn't currently in the Valencian Corts