Marea de Vigo

Marea de Vigo

Leader	Rubén Pérez Correa
Founded	2015 (2015)
Merged into	Anova-Nationalist Brotherhood United Left Independents
Ideology	Participative democracy Left-wing politics
City council of Vigo	3 / 27
Pontevedra provincial deputation	1 / 27 ^[1]
Website
mareadevigo.org
Politics of Galicia Political parties

Marea de Vigo (Tide of Vigo in Galician language) is a citizen movement and political party set up in the city of Vigo that runs a left-wing "popular unity" candidacy to the municipal elections of May 2015.^[2]

Rubén Pérez Correa, a member of the United Left (EU) was elected as the candidate. The candidacy is supported by EU, Anova-Nationalist Brotherhood, independents and some members of Podemos. 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, Zaragoza en Común or Málaga Ahora.

Marea de Vigo was the 3rd most voted list in the Vigo local elections of 2015 (16,227 votes, 11.5%), gaining 3 seats in the city council.

Elected councillors

Rubén Pérez Correa: member of United Left and local coordinator of the party.
Margarida López Barreiro: worker of the Galician Public Healthcare Service, unionist and feminist activist and member of Anova-Nationalist Brotherhood. She also participates in the Global March of Women and in the Galician Platform for Abortion Rights.
Xosé Lois Jácome Enríquez Chili: local coordinator of Anova-Nationalist Brotherhood, union representative, and member of the Galician People's Front.^[3]^[4]

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