The Communist Party of Andalusia (in Spanish: Partido Comunista de Andalucía) is the federation of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) in Andalusia.
History PCA was founded in 1979, as the Andalusian branch of PCE was converted into a regional party.Menéndez Gijón, Manuel Ángel, and Ignacio Fontes. Quién es quién: sus señorías los diputados : atlas de la democracia parlmentaria española. Foca investigación, 21. Madrid: Foca, 2002. p. 71Chaffee, Lyman G. Political protest and street art: popular tools for democratization in Hispanic countries. Westport, Conn. u.a: Greenwood Press, 1993. p. 45 The party supported autonomy for Andalusia, and called for a 'yes'-vote in the 1980 referendum on autonomy.Mellado Morales, Juan de Dios, and Antonio Ramos Espejo. Memoria de la transición democrática en Córdoba. Crónica de un sueño (1973 - 83) : memoria de la transición democrática en Andalucía / ed. Juan de Dios Mellado Morales. Dir. Antonio Ramos Espejo, 5. Granada: C&T Editores, 2005. p. 100 During this phase it worked in cooperation with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party at the municipal level. At the time, Fernando Soto was the general secretary of PCA.Checa Godoy, Antonio, Carmen Espejo Cala, and María José Ruiz Acosta. ABC de Sevilla, un diario y una ciudad: análisis de un modelo de periodismo local. Ciencias de la comunicación, 5. Sevilla: Secretriado de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Sevilla, 2007. p. 154
PCA contested the 1982 Spanish parliamentary election, obtaining 211,456 votes (6.19% of the votes in Andalusia). The party was able to elect one parliamentarian to the Congress of Deputies, from the electoral district of Seville.Elecciones Congreso de los Diputados Octubre 1982 - Autonomía: ANDALUCIA
In the 1983 municipal elections, at a time when the influence of PCE was decreased across Spain, the Andalusian communists were able to win a decisive victory (57.4%) in the city of Córdoba. This was the sole provincial capital in which the PCE won the post of mayor in these elections. The electoral victory was largely due to the charismatic leadership of the mayoral candidate, Julio Anguita. The fourth congress of PCA, held in January 1984, decided to launch the coalition Convocatoria por Andalucía. Convocatoria por Andalucía would become a model for the statewide United Left (IU) which contested the 1986 municipal elections.Le Communisme en Europe occidentale. Communisme, no 17, 1988. Paris: L'Age d'Homme, 1988. p. 84Le Communisme FranÇais Et Ses MunicipalitÉs, Communisme, no 22-23. p. 81Menéndez Gijón, Manuel Ángel, and Ignacio Fontes. Quién es quién: sus señorías los diputados : atlas de la democracia parlmentaria española. Foca investigación, 21. Madrid: Foca, 2002. p. 344
Leadership and organization PCA is led by a Central Committee.Mariscal releva a Centella como nuevo secretario general del PCA con más del 82% de los votos
The tenth congress of PCA, held in Matalascañas March 20–21, 2010 elected José Manuel Mariscal as the new general secretary of PCA, replacing José Luis Centella (who had been elected as the general secretary of PCE in November 2009). Juan de Dios Villanueva was elected as vice general secretary.José Luis Centella, nuevo secretario general del PCE
The twelfth congress of PCA, held in Albolote July 2, 2017 elected Ernesto Alba as the new general secretary of PCA, replacing José Manuel Mariscal.Ernesto Alba, nuevo secretario general del PCA
Name Period Notes1977-1981Felipe Alcaraz1981–2002José Luis Centella2002-2010José Manuel Mariscal2010–2017Ernesto Alba 2017–present
References
External links PCA website