Cs
Ciudadanos (Cs) was founded March 4, 2006 in Catalonia. This party had received 25.4% of votes and 36 deputies in the December 2017 regional election of Catalonia, which made this party the largest single party in the parliament of Catalonia (Wikipedia). To explain their position and ideology in 2017, they used the phrase “Catalonia is my homeland, Spain is my country and Europe is our future.” This center right political party has the ideology of liberalism, secularism, populism, pro-Europeanism, Spanish nationalism and conservative liberalism. Liberalism is the belief in the government’s action to achieve equal opportunity and equality for all while conservative will believe in personal responsibility with limited government. The reasoning for the creation of this party was a response to the call made in a manifesto by a group of well-known people and figures in the Catalan civic society when they asked for a new group to solve the real problems faced by the general public. In 2005, the Ciutadans de Catalunya was formed, which is a group of public figures who believed in the bettering of this community who then in 2006 announced their formation of the political party. As a drastic change from the 2017 election, in 2006, their first election as a political party, they only won 3% of votes and the same for 2010. In the 2012 snap elections, they doubled and won 7.6% then in 2015 they doubled again and won 17.9% of votes. Which put them as the second largest faction in the Catalan parliament. In 2019, this political party had 15.9% of national votes gaining them 57 seats and becoming the third place single party in the national election.
Ciudadanos: Basic Platform
One of the main subjects Ciudadanos promotes is to make the Catalanes a united Catalonia and united together in peace. They go against Torro* who wants to keep Catalanes separate. Ciudadanos wants Catalanes to coexist in peace. Ciudadanos will make sure your public money will not go towards the separatists. They will make sure that there are no political corruptions and if corruption does happen they will put the ones responsible for it in Jail. Politicians will lose their position and will not be able to run in any more elections. They will also not benefit from the public money. There is no language barrier to get a job, study in school or to label your business. If you speak Spanish you will not be discriminated for not speaking catalon. Spanish will be one of the official and common languages of Spain. If they allow both languages there is a better chance for Catalanes to be peaceful together and will be no hatred in the long run. People in school will not be forced to learn and agree to certain beliefs of the laws and constitution. To make sure this happens there will be published reports on progress and what is being taught. Ciudadanos wants to strengthen the constitutional court to insure respect to the court. They want to create new laws. To be part of the court you need at least 25 years of official practice. You would need to retire by 75. Anyone who is a jurist will need to be a recognized Jurist.
*Quim Torra – President of the Generalitat and pro-independence.
Sources:
“Citizens (Spanish Political Party).” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 5 June 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_(Spanish_political_party)#History.
Authors: Natalie Hall & Karlyn McAllister