Socialist Party of Aragon

Socialist Party of Aragon
Partido Socialista de Aragón
Leader Emilio Gastón
Secretary-General Santiago Marraco
Founded 1976 (1976)
Dissolved 1983 (1983)
Merger of Socialist Alliance of Aragón
Andalán group
Independents
Merged into PSOE
(social democratic sector)
Aragonese Nationalist Movement
(nationalist sector)
Ideology Democratic Socialism
Aragonese nationalism
Federalism
Republicanism
Political position Left-wing
National affiliation Socialist Unity (1977)
Congreso de los Diputados (1977-1979)
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Socialist Party of the Aragon (in Spanish: Partido Socialista de Aragón) was a democratic socialist political party in Aragón, Spain.

History

PSA was formed in 1976 by the Socialist Alliance of Aragón, members of the magazine and cultural group Andalán and independents close to socialist Aragonesism. The Aragonese section of Socialist Reconstruction, a group of members of the Unión Sindical Obrera trade union, also joined the party later. The party joined the Federation of Socialist Parties the 7 of march of that year.

In the elections of 1977 the party gained 1 seat in the Congreso de los Diputados, in a coalition with the People's Socialist Party called Socialist Unity. In 1978, some members of the party joined the PSOE, the majority of them from the moderate wing of the party. Other members of the party, from the more radical and nationalist wing, formed the Nationalist Movement of Aragón the same year, along with people from the Rolde de Estudios Nacionalistas Aragonés association.

The party disappeared in 1983, after several electoral failures. Their members split between those that joined the Socialist Party and the ones that joined the Nationalist Movement.

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