Canary Islands Now (Spanish: Ahora Canarias) is a left-wing and Canarian separatist electoral alliance founded in February 2019 in order to compete in the 2019 Spanish general election and the Canarian regional election of that same year. The alliance is formed by three parties: Canarian Nationalist Alternative (Spanish: Alternativa Nacionalista Canaria, ANC), National Congress of the Canaries (Spanish: Congreso Nacional de las Canarias; CNC) and the Unity of the People (Spanish: Unidad del Pueblo, UP).[1]

Ahora Canarias
FoundedFebruary 8, 2019 (2019-02-08)
Merger ofANC
CNC
UP
IdeologyCanarian independence
Socialism
Political positionLeft-wing to far-left
National affiliationAhora Repúblicas (since 2019)
Regional affiliationDrago Project (2023)
Slogan#UnidadIndependista
Website
ahoracanarias.org

The parties involved in Ahora Canarias are also part of the Ahora Repúblicas alliance formed for the 2019 European Parliament election. Ahora Repúblicas is formed from progressive, left-wing nationalist and independentist parties from Catalonia, the Basque Country, Galicia, Asturias, Aragon and the Canary Islands.[2]

In the 2023 Canarian regional election and the 2023 general election Ahora Canarias is forming an alliance with the Communist Party of the Canarian Peoples.[3]

Election results

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Cortes Generales
Constituency Votes % Notes
April 2019
Las Palmas 1,263 0.23%
Santa Cruz de Tenerife 1,774 0.34%
Canary Islands 3,037 0.29%
November 2019
Las Palmas 1.110 0.23%
Santa Cruz de Tenerife 922 0.20%
Canary Islands 2,032 0.21%
2023
Las Palmas 868 0.16% In a coalition with the PCPE
Santa Cruz de Tenerife 772 0.15%
Canary Islands 1.640 0.16%
Parlamento de Canarias 2019
Constituency Votes %
Canary Islands at-large 3,163 0.36%
El Hierro - -
Fuerteventura - -
Gran Canaria 1,113 0.31%
La Gomera - -
La Palma - -
Lanzarote 176 0.37%
Tenerife 1,226 0.32%
Parlamento de Canarias 2023
Constituency Votes %
Canary Islands at-large 2,156 0.25%
El Hierro - -
Fuerteventura - -
Gran Canaria 1,250 0.36%
La Gomera - -
La Palma - -
Lanzarote - -
Tenerife 856 0.23%
European Parliament elections
Constituency Year Votes % Misc.
Canary Islands 2019 2.460 0,27% Under the banner ANCUPAhora Repúblicas
2024 1,790 0.26%

References

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  1. ^ Palmas, La Provincia-Diario de Las. "Nace Ahora Canarias "para conseguir la liberación del pueblo canario"". www.laprovincia.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  2. ^ Autonómico, El Confidencial (2019-01-29). "Una coalición independentista canaria se presentará a las elecciones autonómicas". El Confidencial Autonómico (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  3. ^ "Candidatura conjunta PCPC-Ahora Canarias". Unidad y Lucha. 12 April 2023.