Ahora Madrid
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Now Madrid Ahora Madrid | |
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| Leader | Manuela Carmena |
| Founded | 6 March 2015 |
| Merger of | Podemos CpM[1] PCE-PCM[2] Equo PUM+J |
| Headquarters | Calle Aquitania 39 28032 Madrid |
| Ideology | Participatory democracy |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| Colours | Persian green |
| Madrid City Council | 20 / 57 |
| Website | |
| ahoramadrid | |
Ahora Madrid (Spanish for Now Madrid) is a citizen platform of popular unity,[3] formed as an instrumental party without organic internal life,<re3f>"The primaries of Ahora Madrid start this Monday without candidate names even on the table" (in Spanish). infoLibre.es. 2015-03-17.</ref> in order to stand to the municipal elections of 2015 in the city of Madrid.
For this project have converged Ganemos Madrid, a citizen platform inspired by Guanyem Barcelona (now called Barcelona en Comú) and the parties EQUO, Podemos and PUM+J.[4]
History
The June 28, 2014 "Municipalia", later renamed Ganemos Madrid, appeared. The objective of this platform was to win Madrid as a citizens' horizontal initiative formed by a confluence of people, groups, parties and social movemments. On January 29 2014, Ganemos Madrid confirmed that their goal was the confluence of different left-wing forces to stand for the municipal elections as an instrumental party.
On March 6 Ahora Madrid was presented as the instrumental party formed by this confluence of citizens, associations, movements and parties. Although the majority of the members of United Left Madrid (IUCM) supported participating in Ahora Madrid, after an internal crisis the majority sector, including the Communist Party of Madrid and a group of independents that later founded Convocatoria por Madrid, decided to abandon IUCM and join Ahora Madrid. IUCM finally decided not to participate in Ahora Madrid or similar lists.[5]
On March 30 the results of the primaries, in which over 15,000 people participated through online voting, where made public. Manuela Carmena was elected by a large majority as candidate for mayor, Nacho Murgui (ex-president of the Regional Federation of Neighbourhood Associations of Madrid) ranks second in the list, Inés Sabanés (Equo) 3rd, Mauricio Valiente (exIUCM, Communist Party of Madrid) 4th, Rita Maestre (Podemos and Youth Without a Future.) 5th, Pablo Carmona (Ganemos Madrid) 6th, Marta Higueras 7th, Pablo Soto 8th, Celia Mayer (Ganemos Madrid and member of the Patio Maravillas) 9th and Jorge García (exIU, Convocatoria por Madrid) the 10º.
In the Madrid municipal election, 2015 gained 20 seats and was the second most voted party behind People's Party[6], which gained 21 seats.
References
- ^ Te invitamos a participar en el proceso de primarias de Ahora Madrid para elegir la candidatura a la alcaldia de Madrid
- ^ El Partido Comunista de Madrid rompe con IU en la región y apuesta por la "unidad popular".
- ^ "The party presented by Ganemos Madrid will not have organic life" (in Spanish). eldiario.es. 2015-01-29.
- ^ "Inés Sabanés will stand in the primary election of Ahora Madrid" (in Spanish). Cuarto Poder. 2015-03-09.
- ^ IU-CM rechaza concurrir con Ahora Madrid y Valiente presenta su lista.
- ^ http://resultadoslocales2015.interior.es/99MU/DMU1228907999_L1.htm?d=0&e=674