The Socialist Party of Mallorca (, PSM; ), officially PSM–Entesa after the incorporation of Entesa per Mallorca (ExM) in February 2013,El PSM y Entesa se fusionan en un partido con el respaldo del 92% de los afiliados was a political party in Mallorca, Spain. The PSM defined itself as socialist, environmentalist, and Catalan nationalist, from a Mallorcan point of view. The party fully dissolved itself within Més per Mallorca starting in 2018.
Ideology It advocates the self-determination and the freedom of the Balearic Islands, with social justice, to increase the identity and the self-government of the archipelago. It also calls for a closer relationship with the other Catalan Countries, now forbidden to be achieved in a confederation of three Spanish autonomous communities by the Spanish constitution(art.145). Therefore, its political ascription is a Mallorcan political party, regionalist or progressive-stateless nationalist, environmental, socialist and democratic.
History The PSM emerged from the Socialist Party of the Islands (PSI) in December 1977. Unlike most of the other Spanish socialist parties, the PSI refused to join the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).
In 1989, it strengthened an alliance with Socialist Party of Menorca (PSMe) and Nationalist and Ecologist Agreement of Ibiza (ENE), gathering together other local progressive and nationalist parties. The name of the alliance was Nationalist Left of the Balearic Islands Federation (EN), renamed in 1998 as PSM–Nationalist Agreement (PSM–EN). Its representation in the Parliament of the Balearic Islands was between 7% and 15% of the votes.Balearic Islands election results, Historiaelectoral.com accessed 18 April 2011
Usually as an opposition party, PSM was part of the Government of the Island Council of Mallorca from 1995 until 2003 and from 2007 until 2011, and of the Government of the Balearic Islands from 1999 until 2003 and from 2007 until 2011.
In the 2004 general election, PSM took part in a coalition in the Balearic Islands with United Left (EUIB), The Greens (EV), and Republican Left (ERC), as Progressives for the Balearic Islands. This coalition obtained 40,289 votes (12%). However, no representation in the Cortes Generales was obtained.
In 2007, this coalition was enlarged, forming the new coalition Bloc for Mallorca (Bloc). The coalition got 4 MPs (14%) in the Balearic Parliament (2 of them from the PSM). After negotiations, PSM and the other Bloc's parties decided to enter the autonomous government, with Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands (PSIB) and Mallorcan Union (UM), leaving the People's Party (PP) in the opposition.
In 2008, the party decided to change its allies for the general election to UM, ERC and ExM. The coalition refused to join with EUIB. However, 29% of the members wanted to follow the former alliance with EUIB and EV. Most of them were members of the PSM–Left Nationalist Youth. With less than 30,000 votes, no representation in the Cortes Generales was obtained. Also in 2008, the PSM became a full member of the European Free Alliance (EFA).
In 2011, the Bloc broke and the party decided to form an electoral coalition with IniciativaVerds (IV) and ExM for the regional election. The coalition got 36,149 votes and 4 seats in the Parliament. Later that year, the coalition was enlarged by the addition of the new ecologist party eQuo, and participated in the 2011 general election, getting 31,378 votes and no representation.
In March 2016, Bel Busquets was elected Secretary General, in substitution of Biel Barceló. In December 2018, the party was "frozen" and its political activities were transferred to Més per Mallorca (Més).
Electoral performance Parliament of the Balearic Islands Parliament of the Balearic Islands Election Vote % Seats Status Leader 1983 16,979 (#4) 5.46 Opposition Sebastià Serra 1987 16,383 (#5) 4.88 Opposition Sebastià Serra 1991 22,522 (#3) 6.64 Opposition Mateu Morro 1995 41,242 (#3) 10.98 Opposition Pere Sampol 1999 39,509 (#3) 10.83 Government Pere Sampol 2003 30,964 (#4) 7.26 Opposition Pere Sampol 2007 with Bloc – Government Gabriel Barceló 2011 with PSM–IV–ExM – Opposition Gabriel Barceló 2015 with Més – Government Gabriel Barceló 2019 with Més – Confidence and supply Miquel Ensenyat
Congress of Deputies candidates 1977: Francesc Obrador (with the Unitat Socialista coalition) 1982: Joan Perelló 1986: Mateu Morro 1989: Enric Ribas 1993: Sebastià Serra 1996: Maria Antònia Vadell 2000: Cecili Buele 2004: Nanda Ramon (with the Progressistes per les Illes Balears coalition) 2008: Pere Sampol (with the Unitat per les Illes coalition) 2011: Miquel Ensenyat (with the PSM-IniciativaVerds-Entesa-EQUO coalition) 2015: Antoni Verger (Més per Mallorca coalition) 2016: Antoni Verger (Units Podem Més coalition)
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