Catalan Solidarity for Independence
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Catalan Solidarity for Independence
Solidaritat Catalana per la Independència |
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| Leader | Alfons López Tena |
| Founded | 20 July 2010 |
| Headquarters | Barcelona |
| Ideology | Catalan independentism |
| Colours | Red and white |
| Slogan | We make independence possible! |
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Catalan Solidarity for Independence (Catalan: Solidaritat Catalana per la Independència, SI; IPA: [suɫiðəɾiˈtat kətəˈɫanə pər ɫə indəpənˈdɛnsiə]) is an electoral coalition in Catalonia, founded in the summer of 2010 as an outcome of the grassroots social movement that initiated and organized the Catalonian independence referendums of 2009 and 2010. It was organized as a common political platform for Catalan independentism, dissatisfied with what they considered a pragmatist and conformist policy of other Catalan parties (including the independentist Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya) towards the issue of independence.
Currently, it is the second largest independentist political force in Catalonia after Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya. It had 4 representatives in the Catalan Parliament until the 2012 parliamentary election.
It was formed on 20 July 2010 by former FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta, the jurist Alfons López Tena (former activist of the Democratic Convergence of Catalonia) and the Catalan MP Uriel Bertran (former ERC member) as an umbrella group for various supporters of Catalan independence and the creation of a sovereign state for Catalonia. It was named after Catalan Solidarity, a political coalition of all pro-Catalan parties which existed between 1906 and 1909.
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