Asturias Forum

Asturias Forum

Foru Asturies
Asturias Forum Foru Asturies
President	Carmen Moriyón
Secretary-General	Adrián Pumares
Founder	Francisco Álvarez-Cascos
Founded	19 January 2011
Split from	People's Party
Newspaper	El Hormiguero
Youth wing	Foro Joven (Young Forum)
Membership (2011)	6,987
Ideology	Autonomism; Liberalism; Regionalism; Europeanism;
Political position	Centre
Colors	Dark blue
Congress of Deputies	1 / 7 (Asturian seats)
Spanish Senate	0 / 6 (Asturian seats)
General Junta	2 / 45
Mayors	3 / 78
Local Government	49 / 928
Website
	www.foroasturias.es
	Politics of Spain; Political parties; Elections;

The Asturias Forum (Spanish: Foro Asturias, Asturian: Foru Asturies, FAC), registered as Forum of Citizens (Spanish: Foro de Ciudadanos)^[5] is a regionalist^[2] political party in the Principality of Asturias.

History

Asturias Forum was founded in January 2011 by former Deputy Prime Minister Francisco Álvarez Cascos, who left the People's Party (PP) after failing to be selected as the party's candidate for President of the Principality of Asturias in the 2011 election.

In the Asturian election, Álvarez Cascos led the party under the name "Forum of Citizens" (Spanish: Foro de Ciudadanos). FAC won sixteen seats, making it the largest party on the General Council. Together with the PP, FAC's gains gave the centre-right a majority in Asturias for the first time.^[6] The party has spoken to all three other parties to create a more consensual political climate.^[7]

At the November 2011 Spanish election, the party won one of Asturias's eight seats in the Congress of Deputies.

After months of deadlock in the Asturian regional assembly, fresh elections were held, in which FAC lost 4 seats, becoming the second largest party behind the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).

On 12 February 2015, Francisco Álvarez-Cascos surprisingly announced he would not stand again as Asturias Forum's candidate and resigned to the presidency of the party.^[8] Álvarez-Cascos was succeeded by Cristina Coto, while he went on to become the party's secretary-general.

After the resignation of Cristina Coto due to differences with Álvarez Cascos, Carmen Moriyón, mayoress of Gijón, was elected new president of the party on 29 September 2018.^[9]

Presidents

Francisco Álvarez-Cascos 2011–2015
Cristina Coto 2015–2018
Carmen Moriyón 2018–present

Electoral performance

Cortes Generales

Asturias

Congress of Deputies
Date	Votes			Seats		Status	Size	Notes
Date	#	%	±pp	#	±	Status	Size	Notes
2011	92,828	14.7%	—	1 / 8	—	Opposition	3rd
2015	187,568	30.1%	N/A	1 / 8	0	Opposition	*	government support
2016	209,632	35.3%	N/A	1 / 8	0	Opposition	*	government support
Apr 2019	111,341	17.9%	N/A	0 / 7	1	Opposition	*
Nov 2019	128,698	23.2%	N/A	1 / 7	1	Opposition	*

Senate
Date	Seats		Size
Date	#	±	Size
2011	0 / 4	—	3rd
2015	1 / 4	1	*
2016	1 / 4	0	*
Apr 2019	0 / 4	1	*
Nov 2019	0 / 4	0	*

* Within People's Party–Asturias Forum.

General Junta of the Principality of Asturias

Date	Votes			Seats		Status	Size
Date	#	%	±pp	#	±	Status	Size
2011	178,031	29.7%	—	16 / 45	—	Government	1st
2012	124,518	24.8%	–4.9	12 / 45	4	Opposition	2nd
2015	44,283	8.2%	–16.6	3 / 45	9	Opposition	5th
2019	34,388	6.5%	–1.7	2 / 45	1	Opposition	6th

European Parliament

Spain
Date	Votes			Seats		Size
Date	#	%	±pp	#	±	Size
2014	32,962	0.2%	—	0 / 54	—	18th
2019	6,053	0.1%	–0.1	0 / 54	—	22nd

Asturias
Date	Votes			Size
Date	#	%	±pp	Size
2014	16,064	4.2%	—	6th
2019	6,053	1.2%	–3.0	6th

Footnotes

^ Foro Asturias valida a 6.987 afiliados con derecho a voto para su congreso constitucional. El Comercio, 26/02/2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "ESTATUTOS" (PDF). 2021 (PDF). Retrieved 5 October 2022. {{cite web}}: Check |archive-url= value (help)
^ "Foro celebra su V Congreso con la vista puesta en consolidarse como partido centrista y autonomista". Público, Nortes (in Spanish). 30 September 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
^ MAPA | Radiografía del nuevo poder municipal: consulta los nombres de todos los alcaldes y alcaldesas de España. eldiario.es.
^ Aviso Legal
^ Mencía, J. E. (25 May 2011). "Cascos gana las elecciones y la derecha obtiene mayoría absoluta por primera vez". La Nueva España (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 May 2011.
^ Ordóñez, José A. (25 May 2011). "Cascos llama a PSOE, PP e IU a un "consenso básico", inspirado en los pactos de la Moncloa". La Nueva España (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 May 2011.
^ Cascos renuncia a encabezar la candidatura de su partido en las elecciones regionales; El Comercio, 12 February 2015 (in Spanish)
^ "Carmen Moriyón, nueva presidenta de Foro Asturias" [Carmen Moriyón, new president of Asturias Forum] (in Spanish). La Nueva España. 29 September 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018.

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[1] Foro Asturias valida a 6.987 afiliados con derecho a voto para su congreso constitucional. El Comercio, 26/02/2011.

[estatuto-2] "ESTATUTOS" (PDF). 2021 (PDF). Retrieved 5 October 2022. {{cite web}}: Check |archive-url= value (help)

[3] "Foro celebra su V Congreso con la vista puesta en consolidarse como partido centrista y autonomista". Público, Nortes (in Spanish). 30 September 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2022.

[4] MAPA | Radiografía del nuevo poder municipal: consulta los nombres de todos los alcaldes y alcaldesas de España. eldiario.es.

[5] Aviso Legal

[6] Mencía, J. E. (25 May 2011). "Cascos gana las elecciones y la derecha obtiene mayoría absoluta por primera vez". La Nueva España (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 May 2011.

[7] Ordóñez, José A. (25 May 2011). "Cascos llama a PSOE, PP e IU a un "consenso básico", inspirado en los pactos de la Moncloa". La Nueva España (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 May 2011.

[8] Cascos renuncia a encabezar la candidatura de su partido en las elecciones regionales; El Comercio, 12 February 2015 (in Spanish)

[9] "Carmen Moriyón, nueva presidenta de Foro Asturias" [Carmen Moriyón, new president of Asturias Forum] (in Spanish). La Nueva España. 29 September 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018.

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