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Compostela Aberta

Compostela Aberta
Abbreviation CA
Leader Martiño Noriega
Founded 2015 (2015)
Merger of
Ideology Participative democracy
Galicianism
Left-wing politics
National affiliation En Marea
Santiago de Compostela City Council
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A Coruña provincial deputation
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Website
compostelaaberta.org (gl)

Compostela Aberta (English: Open Compostela) is a grassroots movement and political coalition in the city of Santiago de Compostela that runs a left-wing "popular unity" candidacy to the municipal elections of May 2015.

Martiño Noriega, a member of Anova-Nationalist Brotherhood (Anova) was elected as the candidate. The candidacy is supported by EU, Anova-Nationalist Brotherhood, Equo, Podemos, Espazo Ecosocialista Galego and independents. It's one of the many "popular unity" candidacies formed by left-wing political parties in Galicia and Spain to the Spanish local elections, 2015; like Marea Atlántica, Ahora Madrid, Barcelona en Comú, Marea de Vigo or Málaga Ahora.

The members of the candidacy were elected, in addition to mayor Martiño Noriega, were María Rozas (financial management consultant and member of United Left), Jorge Duarte (architect, former president of the College of Architects of Galicia), Branca Novoneyra (writer and choreographer), Xan Duro (Verdegaia ecologist activist, member of the Espazo Ecosocialista Galego), Concha Fernández (former local leader of the Galician Nationalist Bloc, teacher of Community Social Intervention and former union activist), Manuel Dios Diz (president of the Galician Seminar of Education for Peace and also a member of the Espazo Ecosocialista Galego), Marta Lois (professor of Political Science), Rafa Peña Vidal (CIG unionist at the Lavacolla Airport and member of the Galician People's Front) and Noa Morales (expert in international relations and a member of United Left).


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