page_title: Platform for Catalonia
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Platform for Catalonia / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Distribution of the Platform for Catalonia to vote in elections to the Parliament of Catalonia 2010. Español: Distribución del voto a Palataforma por Cataluña en las elecciones al Parlamento de Cataluña de 2010. Català: Distribució del vot a Plataforma per Catalunya a les eleccions al Parlament de Catalunya 2010.
context_page_description: Plataforma per Catalunya 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 far-right political force. Its leader was Josep Anglada, town councillor in Vic. PxC has 8 local representatives, often in cities with tensions between locals and immigrants. They have not had any representatives at provincial, regional or national level. In 2014, the faction of PxC supporting Catalan independence splintered to form a new far-right pro-independence party "Som Catalans". On February 2019, PxC merged with the Spanish nationalist party VOX.
context_section_description: Anglada started the party on 15 January 2001 as the Plataforma Vigatana (Platform for Vic). 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%.
  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%, 3 seats). In Vic, the PxC grew from four to five councillors, making them the city's second-largest party after Convergence and Union.
  On 16 February 2019, the PxC was absorbed into Vox.
caption: PxC results in the Catalan parliamentary election, 2010. Areas of highest support in red and lowest in blue.
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