Talk:Union of the Catalan Left

Izquierda Unida

This article is not redundant to the United Left (Spain) article. UEC was not part of IU, in fact IU doesn't have an organization in Catalonia. UEC was a referent of IU, but a completly independent structure. --Soman (talk) 21:01, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't realise that when I originally tagged the article, apologies. The reason I thought that the two were one and the same was that on Spanish general election, 1986 there is no mention of the 0.62% claimed to have been won by the UEC in this article, and therefore I assumed that it was part of the 4.45% won by the IU. Also, the general election article states that [i]n this election, the Communist Party of Spain merged with other minor left parties to form the coalition Izquierda Unida; in Catalonia they ran as the Catalan Left Union, which I assumed meant that the UEC was running under the IU umbrella. You seem far more educated in Spanish politics than I; would you recommend merging this article with the IU one? I'm still not clear on whether the UEC was just a spin-off or splinter of the IU, or whether they were two completely separate coalitions. Thanks! haz (talk) 08:17, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No hard feelings, the Spanish-Catalan left relations are always complicated and intricate. In the article Spanish general election, 1986 the votes and seat of UEC are counted as part of IU. [1] counts UEC as part of IU, but [2] shows UEC as a separate ticket. I think the article on the election should be updated along the lines of the pre.gva.es link. IU presents itself under slightly different names in different autonomous regions, but judging from the historical independence of PSUC towards PCE and rather different composition in UEC in Catalonia compared IU, I'd say there is no indication that UEC was part of IU or a regional federation of IU (like Ezker Batua in Basque Country). --Soman (talk) 11:29, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]