Galician Left
Galician Left was a Galician nationalist and leftist political party of Galicia.
History
It was founded in December 1980 as a refoundation of the Galician Workers Party, integrating the majority of the members of the self-dissolved Galician Workers Party and members of the BN-PG, Galician [Socialist Party |Galician Socialist Party], Communist Party of Galicia and the Communist [Movement of Spain|Communist Movement] of Galicia. The party celebrated its First Congress in March 1981, accepting the constitutional framework and the autonomous institutions as a valid framework to achieve the self-determination of Galicia.In the Galician [parliamentary election, 1981|Galician elections of 1981] EG obtained 33,497 votes and a seat for its leader, Camilo Nogueira, who achieved great prominence in the Galician Parliament, although the party suffered a sharp setback in the Spanish [general election, 1982|1982 general elections] with only 22,310 votes.
In 1984 the party merged with the Galician Socialist Party to create the Galician Socialist Party-Galician Left.