Andalusian Liberation (in Spanish: Liberación Andaluza; LA) was an Andalusian nationalist and independentist political party in Andalusia. In the 1986 Andalusian elections LA got 5,996 votes (0.18%). The platform was dissolved in 1989, at least as a "political movement", because of its limited success.[4]

Andalusian Liberation
Liberación Andaluza
تحرير الأندلس
Tahrir al-Andalus
LeaderAbderramán Ortiz Molera
Yasser Calderón[1]
Founded1985 (1985)
Dissolved1989 (1989)[2]
Merger ofYama'a Islámica de Al-Andalus
IdeologyAndalusian nationalism
Independentism
Arabism
Islamic Andalusianism
Political positionSyncretic
ColorsGreen
White
Local Government
3 / 9,027
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Party flag

Ideology edit

LA mixed the ideas of Blas Infante with Islamic Neo-andalusism, represented by the Yama'a Islámica de Al-Andalus. LA proposed an official status for the Arabic language in the region. LA was openly independentist.[5] LA thought that Islam was not a religion itself but the expression of the Andalusian cultural "genius and style".

LA was irredentist, advocating an expanded Andalusia comprising the current autonomous regions of Andalusia and Murcia, the Extremaduran province of Badajoz, the Sierra de Álcaraz in Castilla-La Mancha, the Portuguese Algarve and Gibraltar. LA was against the Capitulations of Granada and an alleged process of colonization of Andalusia by Spain.

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References edit

  1. ^ Rosón Lorente, Francisco Javier (mayo de 2008). ¿El retorno de Tariq? Comunidades etnorreligiosas en el Albayzín granadino (tesis doctoral) Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. Granada: Editorial de la Universidad de Granada. ISBN 978-84-691-4584-5.
  2. ^ Stallaert, Christiane (1998). Etnogénesis y etnicidad en España: Una aproximación histórico-antropológica al casticismo. Anthropos Editorial. ISBN 84-922335-7-5.
  3. ^ 1987 Elections
  4. ^ Stallaert, Christiane (1998). Etnogénesis y etnicidad en España: Una aproximación histórico-antropológica al casticismo. Anthropos Editorial. ISBN 84-922335-7-5.
  5. ^ Minahan, James (2002). Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: A-C 1. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313321092.