We are proud to welcome Catalunya en Comú into our Green family. As of Saturday 29 May, they were elected by delegates at the 33rd European Green Party Council and are the newest candidate member party of the European Greens.

Catalunya en Comú is a Catalan-based political party that is colloquially known as Comuns (Commons in English).

On 24 May 2015, Ada Colau became the first female Mayor of Barcelona with 25% of the votes. She beat establishment parties on behalf of the citizens’ movement Barcelona en Comú, composed of independent people, the city’s social movements, the Human Rights defence movement, the housing rights movement, ecologists, trade unionists, and other parties like EGP member Iniciativa Per Catalunya Verds (now Esquerra Verda). Since that moment, Colau has been considered the ‘figurehead of the new left-wing politics sweeping Spain’.

On 8 April 2017, Catalunya en Comú was constituted through a large open assembly and is borne from a confluence of left-wing political actors Barcelona en Comú, Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds (ICV), Esquerra Unida i Alternativa (EUiA), Equo and Podem Catalunya. Today, it has 15 mayors in office across Catalonia and maintains its strong municipal values. Despite its relative youth, the party already represents a new era in Spanish politics in which empowered citizens have a place in political action and debate. Notably, they have implemented a strong gender perspective in their political structures, which ensures the presence of women in political issues and debates and pushes for laws on trans rights.

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