Más País

Más País (English: "More Country")[2][3] is a political party and electoral platform formed by Íñigo Errejón around Más Madrid in order to contest the November 2019 Spanish general election.[4]

More Country

Más País
LeaderÍñigo Errejón
Founded25 September 2019 (2019-09-25)
Registered30 September 2019 (2019-09-30)
Preceded byMás Madrid
HeadquartersC/ Castillo de Ucles, 16
28037, Madrid
Membership20,600 (2019)[1]
IdeologyAlter-globalization[2]
Participatory democracy[2]
Green politics[2]
Political positionCentre-left to left-wing
Colors  Emerald
  Dark green
Congress of Deputies
2 / 350
Senate
1 / 265
(Más Madrid)
Website
maspais.es

In November 2020, it was announced that the party was abandoning its nationwide brand to focus on its Más Madrid regional branch.[5]

History

The platform was announced on 22 September 2019 and was formally launched on 25 September, out of a desire of preventing dissatisfaction from centre-left voters over the failure in the government formation process between the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and Unidas Podemos to translate into a higher abstention rate.[6][7] During the party's presentation, Errejón announced that it would avoid running in the smaller constituencies, where they would be unlikely to win any seat but could contribute to other left-of-centre parties—mainly PSOE and UP—losing out their own seats due to vote splitting.[8]

On 26 September, it was revealed the platform had reached a tentative agreement with Equo in order to run jointly in a number of constituencies,[9] a choice subsequently ratified by a majority of party members the next day,[lower-alpha 1] in practice meaning the end of the Equo collaboration with Unidas Podemos despite some members, such as Juan López de Uralde, announcing their will to remain within Pablo Iglesias's coalition while leaving the party.[10][11][12] On 27 September, the platform was joined by Podemos Region of Murcia leaders Óscar Urralburu and María Giménez, the party's only elected members in the Regional Assembly of Murcia, who subsequently left Podemos and their regional seats amid criticism of its national leader Pablo Iglesias.[13][14][15]

On 30 September, just before the deadline for the registration of electoral coalitions, Más País legally took the form of a renaming of Más Madrid, while also modifying the latter's territorial scope from the Madrid region to a country-wide level.[16][17] The political party registered two-way coalitions before the electoral authorities with Compromís ("Més Compromís"; in the constituencies of Alicante, Castellón and Valencia) and Equo (in Madrid, A Coruña, Pontevedra, Murcia, Asturias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Las Palmas, Biscay, Cádiz, Granada, Málaga and Seville) as well as a three-way coalition with Chunta Aragonesista and Equo in Zaragoza.[17]

On 4 October, it was announced that Carolina Bescansa, one of the Podemos co-founders, would be joining the party as their lead candidate for the constituency of A Coruña,[18] a move which prompted further defections from Podemos' branch in Galicia into Más País.[19] Three days later, right before the deadline for the registration of single-party lists, the party collected the minimum amount of signatures (amounting to 0.1% of the electoral census) to run as a stand-alone party in the constituencies of Barcelona and the Balearic Islands.[20]

Coalitions

Ahead of the November 2019 Spanish general election, the system of electoral alliances and coalitions established by Más País comprised the following parties:

Party Notes
More Country (Más País) In Barcelona and Balearic Islands (plus Mallorca for the Senate).
Equo (Equo) In A Coruña, Asturias, Biscay, Las Palmas, Madrid, Murcia, Pontevedra, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Commitment Coalition (Compromís) Within Més Compromís (in Alicante, Castellón and Valencia).
Aragonese Union (CHA) In Zaragoza.
Andalusian People's Initiative (IdPA)[21] In Cádiz, Granada, Málaga and Seville.

Electoral performance

Cortes Generales
Cortes Generales
Election Congress Senate Leading candidate Status in legislature
Votes % # Seats +/– Seats +/–
2019 (Nov) 582,306 2.40% 7th
3 / 350
 3
0 / 208
 0 Íñigo Errejón Confidence and supply

Symbols
  • Main logo.
  • Alternative logo.
  • Logo for Más País–Equo lists.
  • Logo for Más País–CHA–Equo lists.

Notes
  1. 58.7% in favour of joining Más País, 25.9% in favour of remaining in Unidas Podemos and 15.4% in favour of the party contesting the election on its own, with a 33.3% turnout.[10]

References
  1. EP (2019). Más País publica las listas de candidatos y sus inscritos tienen hasta las 22 horas para ratificarlas. eldiario.es.
  2. Nordsieck, Wolfram (2019). "Spain". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  3. Nordsieck, Wolfram (15 May 2020). Parties and Elections in Europe: Parliamentary Elections and Governments Since 1945, European Parliament Elections, Political Orientation and History of Parties. BoD – Books on Demand. p. 549. ISBN 9783750481343.
  4. Caballero, Fátima (20 November 2020). "Más País vuelve a llamarse Más Madrid: el partido de Errejón se repliega". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  5. Caballero, Fátima (25 September 2019). "Errejón ya tiene marca para presentarse a las elecciones: concurrirá el 10 de noviembre con Más País". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  6. Rodríguez-Pina, Gloria; Marcos, Ana (22 September 2019). "El partido de Errejón decide presentarse el 10-N". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  7. Marcos, Ana; León, Paco (25 September 2019). "Errejón se presenta al 10-N y promete poner sus diputados al servicio de un gobierno progresista". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  8. Martiarena, Asier (27 September 2019). "Errejón formaliza su candidatura al 10-N aclamado por la militancia de Más País". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  9. Marcos, Ana (26 September 2019). "Más País y Equo llegan a un preacuerdo para presentarse en diez provincias". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  10. Piña, Raúl (27 September 2019). "Primera ruptura en Unidas Podemos: Equo decide aliarse con Más País de Íñigo Errejón". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  11. "Las bases de Equo deciden concurrir al 10N con Más País y Uralde y otros dirigentes abandonan el partido". eldiario.es (in Spanish). 27 September 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  12. "López de Uralde abandona Equo tras la decisión de concurrir con Errejón en las elecciones generales". 20 minutos (in Spanish). 27 September 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  13. "El exlíder de Podemos Murcia confirma que encabezará la lista de Más País por la región". El Confidencial (in Spanish). Agencias. 27 September 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  14. Marcos, Ana; Vadillo, Virginia (27 September 2019). "Los dos diputados autonómicos de Podemos en Murcia se pasan al partido de Errejón". El País (in Spanish). Madrid/Murcia. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  15. Piña, Raúl (27 September 2019). "Primer golpe de Íñigo Errejón a Pablo Iglesias: le 'roba' la dirección de Podemos en Murcia". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  16. "Más Madrid cambia su nombre a Más País". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Madrid. EFE. 30 September 2019. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  17. "Más País concurrirá a las generales en 16 provincias" (in Spanish). RTVE. Europa Press. 3 October 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  18. Marcos, Ana; Vizoso, Sonia (4 October 2019). "Carolina Bescansa encabezará la lista de Errejón por A Coruña". El País (in Spanish). Madrid/A Coruña. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  19. "La candidatura de Bescansa con Más País provoca bajas en Podemos Galicia". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 5 October 2019. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  20. Asuar Gallego, Beatriz (7 October 2019). "Errejón competirá contra Colau en Barcelona". Público (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  21. "Profundizamos nuestra colaboración con Más País Andalucía-Equo". iniciativadelpuebloandaluz.org (in Spanish). Andalusian People's Initiative. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
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