Original sentence: Currently, they hold a total of some 30 councilor seats split in a number of municipalities of Catalonia.Many of these candidatures are formed by people formerly related to Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya who have gone disenchanted by the latter coalition pacts with the Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya and Iniciativa per Catalunya, which, in their opinion, debase the nature of leftist Catalan independentism as originally formulated by ERC.The Popular Unity Candidatures (Catalan: Candidatures d'Unitat Popular) are independentist candidatures running in the territorial frame which they define as "Catalan Countries" which focus their task on municipalities.Their lines are centered upon deepening in participative democracy, an improvement of social equality, "national building of the Catalan Countries", promotion of sustainability politics and associative network.Their present formulation appears in 2000, being their precendent similar candidatures that appeared in 1979 during the first Spanish municipality elections after Francisco Franco's death, which were especially critical about the direction taken during the Spanish Transition.These candidatures are not organized as the traditional political parties but usually based on deliberative democracy; different PUCs may be diverse amongst themselves, being its main common ground Catalan independentism from a straight forward left position, often the ones of Eco-socialism or Libertarian socialism
Edited sentence: As of 2007, they hold 24 councilor seats in different municipalities of Catalonia, some of them actually from town independent coalitions.The Popular Unity Candidatures (Catalan: Candidatures d'Unitat Popular) are independentist candidatures in the Catalan Countries which focus their task on municipalities.The candidatures are not organized as the traditional political parties but usually based on deliberative democracy; different PUCs may be diverse amongst themselves, being its main common ground Catalan independentism from a straight forward left position, often the ones of Eco-socialism or Libertarian socialism.Their lines are centered upon deepening in participative democracy, an improvement of social equality, national construction of the Catalan Countries, promotion of sustainability politics and associative network.Their present formulation appears in 2000, being their precendent similar candidatures that appeared in 1979 during the first Spanish municipality elections after Francisco Franco's death, which were especially critical about the direction of the ongoing events