{{Infobox political party | country = Catalonia |name = Platform for Catalonia | native_name = Plataforma per Catalunya |logo = Platform_for_Catalonia_logo.jpg |logo_size = 200px | colorcode = {{party color|Platform for Catalonia}} | leader = August Armengol Rofes | founder = Josep Anglada | foundation = 5 April 2002 | dissolution = 16 February 2019 | merged = Vox | predecessor = | ideology = Euroscepticism<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100117155219/http://www.publico.es/espana/285417/josep/anglada/sonrisa/extrema/derecha Josep Anglada, la sonrisa de la extrema derecha]. Público, 14 de enero de 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.telecinco.es/informativos/nacional/noticia/100014499/Podria+ser+la+decision+en+Vic+una+primera+victoria+de+la+extrema+derecha ¿Podría ser la decisión en Vic una primera victoria de la extrema derecha?] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100120081532/http://www.telecinco.es/informativos/nacional/noticia/100014499/Podria+ser+la+decision+en+Vic+una+primera+victoria+de+la+extrema+derecha|date=January 20, 2010}}. Informativos Telecinco, 15 de enero de 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.elplural.com/politica/detail.php?id=42583 Josep Anglada, el ultraderechista que crece en Vic] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924011715/http://www.elplural.com/politica/detail.php?id=42583|date=September 24, 2015}}. El Plural, 24 de enero de 2010.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20111104131620/http://www.elmundo.es/accesible/elmundo/2010/03/13/barcelona/1268480709.html Cónclave ultraderechista para lanzar la campaña del xenófobo Anglada]. El Mundo, 13 de marzo de 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.abc.es/hemeroteca/historico-18-05-2002/abc/Nacional/la-ultraderecha-capitaliza-el-rechazo-a-una-mezquita-en-prem%C3%A0-del-mar_100136.html La ultraderecha capitaliza el rechazo a una mezquita en Premià del Mar]. ABC, 18 de mayo de 2002.</ref><ref>[http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cataluna/ultraderechista/Anglada/propone/prohibir/velo/musulman/Vic/elpepuespcat/20070124elpcat_7/Tes El ultraderechista Anglada propone prohibir el velo musulmán en Vic]. El País, 24 de enero de 2007.</ref><ref>[http://www.elconfidencial.com/cache/2008/06/03/7_extrema_derecha_busca_nuevo_saenz_ynestrillas_aglutinar.html La extrema derecha busca un nuevo Sáenz de Ynestrillas para aglutinar el voto 'ultra']. El Confidencial, 3 de junio de 2008.</ref><ref>[http://www.lavanguardia.es/politica/noticias/20100213/53893187352/el-ultraderechista-partit-per-catalunya-decide-presentarse-a-las-elecciones-al-parlament.html El ultraderechista Partit per Catalunya decide presentarse a las elecciones al Parlament] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100216122715/http://www.lavanguardia.es/politica/noticias/20100213/53893187352/el-ultraderechista-partit-per-catalunya-decide-presentarse-a-las-elecciones-al-parlament.html |date=2010-02-16 }}. La Vanguardia, 13 de febrero de 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.europapress.es/nacional/noticia-plataforma-per-catalunya-invita-ultraderecha-flamenca-liga-norte-italiana-congreso-20081117190214.html Plataforma per Catalunya invita a la ultraderecha flamenca y a la Liga Norte italiana en su congreso]. Europaress, 17 de noviembre de 2007.</ref><ref>[http://www.avui.cat/cat/notices/2010/01/la_ultradreta_se_n_8217_aprofita_84304.php La ultradreta se n’aprofita] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100117150802/http://www.avui.cat/cat/notices/2010/01/la_ultradreta_se_n_8217_aprofita_84304.php|date=January 17, 2010}}. Avui, 14 de enero de 2010.</ref><br />Spanish unionism<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.minutodigital.com/2013/08/06/plataforma-per-catalunya-se-posiciona-claramente-contra-la-independencia-nos-sentimos-espanoles-y-nos-sentimos-catalanes/ |title=Plataforma per Catalunya se posiciona claramente contra la independencia: "Nos sentimos españoles y nos sentimos catalanes" |accessdate=2014-09-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20140905111359/http://www.minutodigital.com/2013/08/06/plataforma-per-catalunya-se-posiciona-claramente-contra-la-independencia-nos-sentimos-espanoles-y-nos-sentimos-catalanes/ |archivedate=2014-09-05 }}</ref><br />Populism<ref name=md>[http://www.minutodigital.com/noticias/2010/04/22/josep-anglada-ser-populista-identitario-es-ser-hondamente-democratico/ Anglada: "Being populist and identitarian is being honestly democratic"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003071247/http://www.minutodigital.com/noticias/2010/04/22/josep-anglada-ser-populista-identitario-es-ser-hondamente-democratico/ |date=2011-10-03 }} Minuto Digital (Spanish)</ref><br />Anti-Islam<ref>[http://www.pxcatalunya.com/webnormal/ver_noticia.php?id_noticia=882 Anglada: "We don't want Muslims, neither in Catalonia nor in Spain"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917054830/http://www.pxcatalunya.com/webnormal/ver_noticia.php?id_noticia=882 |date=2011-09-17 }} - Pxcatalunya.com</ref> | position = Far-right | european = | europarl = | international = | colours = | headquarters = 10 Jacint Verdaguer St. 08500 Vic, Barcelona | website = [http://www.plataforma.cat/ www.plataforma.cat] }} '''Platform for Catalonia''' ({{langx|ca|Plataforma per Catalunya}}, '''PxC''') was a far-right political party rooted in Catalonia, Spain, which centred its political agenda around controlling immigration and was opposed to Catalan independence. It was strongly anti-Islamic and was widely considered a racist, xenophobic political force.<ref>[http://www.europapress.es/noticia.aspx?cod=20070528013811&ch=66 27-M.- El partido xenófobo Plataforma per Catalunya triplica el número de concejales], Europa Press, 28 May 2007.(Spanish)</ref><ref>[http://www.lavanguardia.es/lv24h/20070528/51355805384.html PSC y CiU descartan cualquier tipo de acuerdo con la xenófoba Plataforma per Catalunya] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20080130121522/http://www.lavanguardia.es/lv24h/20070528/51355805384.html |date=2008-01-30 }},''La Vanguardia'', 28 May 2007 (Spanish).</ref><ref>[http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cataluna/CiU/salva/presupuesto/Vic/gracias/abstencion/grupo/xenofobo/elpepuespcat/20050303elpcat_1/Tes CiU salva el presupuesto en Vic gracias a la abstención de un grupo xenófobo], ''El País'', 3 March 2005 (Spanish).</ref><ref>[http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=408824&idseccio_PK=1072 Un manifiesto alerta del racismo de Plataforma per Catalunya], ''El Periodico de Catalunya'', 24 May 2007 (Spanish).</ref> Its leader was Josep Anglada, town councillor in Vic.
PxC had eight local representatives, often in cities with tensions between locals and immigrants. They did not have any representatives at the provincial, regional or national level. In 2014, the faction of PxC supporting Catalan independence splintered to form a new far-right pro-independence party called "Som Catalans" (We are Catalans).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.el9nou.cat/noticies_o_0/37238/una-vigatana-lidera-nou-partit-xenofob-que-usa|title=Una vigatana lidera un nou partit xenòfob que té la independència com a esquer|website=El9nou.cat|date=7 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2014/07/05/catalunya/1404585083_419283.html?rel=rosEP|title=La ultraderecha se descara en Cataluña ante el auge del soberanismo|newspaper=El País|date=9 July 2014|last1=Carranco|first1=Rebeca|last2=Mumbrú|first2=Jordi}}</ref> PxC merged with the Spanish nationalist party VOX in February 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.publico.es/politica/ultraderechista-plataforma-per-catalunya-cesa-actividad-adherirse-vox.html|title=La ultraderechista Plataforma per Catalunya cesa su actividad para adherirse a Vox|website=www.publico.es|access-date=2019-05-20}}</ref>
== History == [[File:2010 PxC Parlament 2010(es).png|thumb|right|200px|PxC results in the Catalan parliamentary election, 2010. Areas of highest support in red and lowest in blue.]] Anglada started the party on 15 January 2001 as the ''Plataforma Vigatana'' (Platform for Vic).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elmundo.es/cronica/2002/345/1022487605.html|title=¿Es este hombre un peligro?|website=Elmundo.es}}</ref> The PxC entered their first municipal elections in 2003, winning one seat in five respective cities. Cervera in Lleida province gave the largest percentage to the party, at 9.2%.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elmundo.es/especiales/2003/05/espana/25m/resultados/municipales/25/cervera.html|title=ELECCIONES 25 M 2003|website=Elmundo.es}}</ref>
In the 2010 Catalan parliamentary election, they received 2.4% of votes, falling 15,000 votes short of entering Parliament.
In the 2011 local elections, PxC got 65,905 votes, and grew from 17 to 67 councillors. Two were elected in Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia's second-largest city. Three were elected in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, which along with the two in Hospitalet constitute the PxC's first representation in Greater Barcelona. Mataró, in Barcelona province, had the highest percentage voting for the party (10.49%, three seats). In Vic, the PxC grew from four to five councillors, making them the city's second-largest party after Convergence and Union.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vozbcn.com/2011/05/23/73411/plataforma-catalunya-67-concejales/|title=Plataforma per Catalunya recibe 66.000 votos y pasa de 17 a 67 concejales|date=22 May 2011|website=Vozbcn.com}}</ref>
=== Splits === In 2014, then longtime president Josep Anglada was kicked out from the party for "management deficiency".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20140331/54404594355/el-partido-ultraderechista-pxc-expulsa-a-josep-anglada.html|title = Plataforma per Catalunya expulsa a Josep Anglada del partido|date = 31 March 2014}}</ref> The same year, members of the party supportive of the Catalan independence movement left to found their own political party: Som Catalans ("We are Catalans").<ref>{{Cite web |last=Osona.com |title=Una vigatana lidera un nou partit xenòfob, ara amb connotacions independentistes |url=https://www.naciodigital.cat/osona/noticia/42257/vigatana-lidera-nou-partit-xenofob-ara-amb-connotacions-independentistes |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=www.naciodigital.cat |language=ca}}</ref>
In 2016, Anglada would go on to found a new party: {{ill|Som Identitaris|ca}}, which would successfully run in the subsequent municipal elections in Vic and Manlleu. For the 2019 European Parliament election in Spain, Som Identitaris endorsed ADÑ–Spanish Identity, urging supporters to vote for them.
=== Failed attempt at national expansion === {{Main articles|Party for Freedom (Spain)}} Parties affiliated with the PxC were set up in other regions of Spain, however they have not obtained any electoral success. The Platform for Madrid ({{langx|es|Plataforma por Madrid}}, PxM) cut off its links to Anglada's party in March 2006.<ref>[http://www.vilaweb.cat/media/attach/vwedts/docs/PLATAFORMAPORMADRID.doc] {{dead link|date=January 2018}}</ref>
In 2012, Anglada announced the launch of the Platform for Freedom ({{langx|es|Plataforma por la Libertad}}, PxL) an expansion of the party into the rest of Spain.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2012/05/18/barcelona/1337371364.html/|title=Anglada crea Plataforma por la Libertad (PxL) para extenderse por España|website=Elmundo.es}}</ref> Anglada and the PxL have protested against the construction of mosques in Spain.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2012/06/30/madrid/1341058395.html/|title=Anglada: 'No queremos una mezquita ni en Torrejón ni en ningún sitio'|website=Elmundo.es}}</ref> Plataforma por la Libertad was refounded in 2013 as the Party for Freedom.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.diagonalperiodico.net/libertades/22151-es-partido-por-la-libertad.html|title=¿Qué es el Partido por la Libertad? - Periódico Diagonal|website=Diagonalperiodico.net|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://sede.mir.gob.es/nfrontal/webpartido_politico/recurso/partido_politicoDetalle.html|title=Registro de partidos políticos|website=Sede.mir.gob.es}}</ref>
=== Dissolution === On 16 February 2019, PxC was absorbed into Vox.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://cat.elpais.com/cat/2019/02/16/catalunya/1550343686_509605.html|title = Vox s'empassa Plataforma per Catalunya| newspaper=El País |date = 16 February 2019 | last1=Faus | first1=Joan }}</ref>
== Ideology == PxC was a self-described identitarian party<ref>{{Cite web |last=Salicrú |first=Joan |date=2012-07-03 |title=Un concejal de Plataforma en L'Hospitalet, rodeado de símbolos nazis en plaza Espanya |url=https://www.elperiodico.com/es/hospitalet/20120703/plataforma-per-catalunya-nazismo-alberto-sanchez-hospitalet-2017942 |access-date=2024-10-17 |website=www.elperiodico.com |language=es}}</ref> which employed anti-Muslim rhetoric and has been considered to have had a "counter-jihad agenda".<ref name="expo">{{cite book|url=https://expo.se/wp-content/uploads/expo_migration/counterjihadrorelsen_en_del_av_den_antimuslimska_rorelsen_2012.pdf|title=Counterjihadrörelsen– en del av den antimuslimska miljön|first=Martha|last=Hannus|page=57|year=2012|publisher=Expo Research|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241203232308/https://expo.se/wp-content/uploads/expo_migration/counterjihadrorelsen_en_del_av_den_antimuslimska_rorelsen_2012.pdf|archive-date=3 December 2024}}</ref> In 2011 the PxC were investigated after ordering a "Night of the Long Knives" against Muslim clerics in Catalonia.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2011/08/25/actualidad/1314284897_582463.html|title=El fiscal investiga a PxC por instar en la web a una "noche de cuchillos largos"|date=25 August 2011|newspaper=El País}}</ref> The party leader was also investigated for calling for the expulsion of all Muslims from Spain.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/2010_5/168340.htm|title=Spain: July-December, 2010 International Religious Freedom Report|date=13 September 2011|publisher=US Department of State}}</ref>
The PxC councillor in Salt, Girona, voted against criminalising homophobia in the city in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cascaraamarga.es/politica-lgtb/lgtb-espana/4208-salt-sancionara-conductas-homofobas.html#.UhTpH7tw1SQ|title=El ayuntamiento de Salt sancionará las conductas homófobas|website=Cascaraamarga.es}}</ref>
The PxC took a stance against the enquiry for the political future of Catalonia of 2014, also known as 9-N, which the party considered an illegal attempt of secession of the autonomous community with respect to the rest of Spain.<ref>{{Cite web |last=BARCELONA |first=EL PERIÓDICO / |date=2014-11-09 |title=Plataforma per Catalunya denuncia en la Ciutat de la Justícia 1.317 locales en los que se vota |url=https://www.elperiodico.com/es/politica/20141109/plataforma-per-catalunya-denuncia-en-la-ciutat-de-la-justicia-1317-locales-en-los-que-se-vota-3673733 |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=elperiodico |language=es}}</ref>
== International relations == At their 2008 Congress, the PxC invited the Vlaams Belang of Belgium and the Lega Nord of Italy to attend.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://m.europapress.es/nacional/noticia-plataforma-per-catalunya-invita-ultraderecha-flamenca-liga-norte-italiana-congreso-20081117190214.html|title=Plataforma per Catalunya invita a la ultraderecha flamenca y a la Liga Norte italiana en su congreso|agency=Europa Press|date=17 November 2008|website=M.europapress.es}}</ref> In 2012, a senior PxC member congratulated the Golden Dawn of Greece on their general election results.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.naciodigital.cat/noticia/42624/alba/daurada/inflama/passions/pxc|title=Alba Daurada inflama les passions de PxC|website=NacióDigital.cat}}</ref> In 2010 the party signed a friendship agreement with the Freedom Party of Austria in order to counter the "Islamisation of Europe."<ref name="expo"/>
==Electoral performance== ===Parliament of Catalonia=== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;" |- | colspan="7" align="center"| Parliament of Catalonia |- ! width="75"| Election ! Leading candidate ! width="70" | Votes ! width="70"| % ! Seats ! width="40"| +/– ! Government |- ! 2010 | rowspan="2" align="left" | Josep Anglada | 75,134 | 2.40 (#8) | {{Composition bar|0|135|hex={{party color|Platform for Catalonia}}}} | ''New'' | {{n/a|No seats}} |- ! 2012 | 60,107 | 1.65 (#8) | {{Composition bar|0|135|hex={{party color|Platform for Catalonia}}}} | 10px0 | {{n/a|No seats}} |}
===Municipalities===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:100%;" ! rowspan="2" |Data ! colspan="3" |Catalonia |- ! Votes ! % ! Seats |- |2003 |2,535 |0.08 | style="text-align:center;"| {{Composition bar compact|4|8932|hex={{party color|Platform for Catalonia}}|color=#000|text-shadow=no}} |- |2007 |12,447 |0.43 | style="text-align:center;"| {{Composition bar compact|17|8932|hex={{party color|Platform for Catalonia}}|color=#000|text-shadow=no}} |- |2011 |65,905 |2.3 | style="text-align:center;"| {{Composition bar compact|67|9137|hex={{party color|Platform for Catalonia}}|color=#000|text-shadow=no}} |- |2015 |27,348 |0.88 | style="text-align:center;"| {{Composition bar compact|8|9077|hex={{party color|Platform for Catalonia}}|color=#000|text-shadow=no}} |}
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == {{Portal|Conservatism|Spain}} * {{Official website|http://www.plataforma.cat/}}
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