2023 Aranese Council election

2023 Aranese Council election
	28 May 2023
All 13 seats in the Conselh Generau d'Aran; 7 seats needed for a majority
Incumbent Síndic d'Aran; Maria Vergés Pérez; UA-PSC-CP	; ;

The 2023 Aranese Council Election, will be held on Sunday, 28 May 2023, to elect the General Council of Aran, an administrative entity in the province of Lleida (Spain). All 13 seats in the council will be up for election. The election will be held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

Overview

Electoral system

The General Council of Aran is elected every four years on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprises all nationals over eighteen who can vote in the local elections in any of the 9 municipalities that make up Aran. It was officially established after the 1991 elections and is made up of 13 members. According to Law 16/1990, of July 13, on the special regime of the Val d'Aran, it is made up of the Síndic d'Aran, the General Councilors (Occitan: Conselhers Generaus), that work in plenary, and by the Commission of Accounts Auditors (Occitan: Commission d'Auditors de Compdes).[1]

In every election, electors choose the General Councilors, that will later elect the Síndic, who acts as the head of government. Aran is divided in six electoral districts, whose borders coincide with those of the "thirds" (Occitan: Terçon, Catalan: Terçó, Spanish: Tersón), a traditional division of the valley. In every district, members are allocated using the proportional D'Hônt method with closed lists, with an electoral threshold of five percent of the valid votes in every district.[2] The use of the D'Hondt method may result in a higher effective threshold, depending on the district magnitude.[3]

On the 2019 election, members were distributed in the following way:[2]

Constituency	Seats

Pujòlo	2
Arties e Garòs	2
Castièro	4
Marcatosa	1
Lairissa	1
Quate Lòcs	3

As Catalonia has not developed its own electoral law, Aranese elections are regulated by Organic Law No. 5 of 19 June 1985, which regulates elections nationwide.

Election date

The date of the elections is set for the same day that local elections are held in Spain, that is, the fourth Sunday of May every 4 years.[4]

Parties and candidates

The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least one percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates.[5]

Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which will likely contest the election:

Candidacy		Parties and alliances	Leading candidate		Ideology	Previous result		Gov.	Ref.
Candidacy		Parties and alliances	Leading candidate		Ideology	Votes (%)	Seats	Gov.	Ref.
	UA-PSC-CP	List Unity of Aran (UA) Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC) Candidatura de Progrés (CP)		Maria Vergés Pérez	Social democracy Aranese autonomism	49.72%	9	Y	[6]
	CDA-PNA	List Aranese Democratic Convergence-Aranese Nationalist Party (CDA-PNA)		TBD	Liberalism Aranese autonomy Occitan nationalism	29.97%	4	N
	Aran Amassa	List Aran Together (Aran Amassa) Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC)		Mireia Boya	Socialism Catalan independence Occitan nationalism	10.86%	0	N	[7]
	PRAG	List Partit Renovador d'Arties e Garòs (PRAG)		Rafael Hinojosa	Localism Progressivism Aranese autonomy	1.91%	0	N

References

Ley 16/1990, de 13 de julio, sobre régimen especial del Valle de Arán (PDF) (in Spanish). Boletín Oficial del Estado.
Decreto 73/2019, de 26 de marzo, de convocatoria de elecciones al Consejo General de Arán de 2019 (PDF) (in Spanish and Occitan). Diari Oficial de la Generalitat de Catalunya.
Gallagher, Michael (30 July 2012). "Effective threshold in electoral systems". Trinity College, Dublin. Archived from the original on 2017-07-30. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
Comunidad Autónoma de Cataluña (4 March 2015), Ley 1/2015, de 5 de febrero, del régimen especial de Arán, pp. 20067–20100, retrieved 9 May 2022
"Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General". Organic Law No. 5 of 19 June 1985. Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 December 2016.
"Maria Vergés, nueva secretaria general de UA". Segre.com (in Spanish). 12 December 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
Tedó, Xavi (28 December 2022). "ERC s'alia amb el partit de Mireia Boya per tenir presència a l'Aran". Ara.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 4 February 2023.

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[1] Ley 16/1990, de 13 de julio, sobre régimen especial del Valle de Arán (PDF) (in Spanish). Boletín Oficial del Estado.

[:0-2] Decreto 73/2019, de 26 de marzo, de convocatoria de elecciones al Consejo General de Arán de 2019 (PDF) (in Spanish and Occitan). Diari Oficial de la Generalitat de Catalunya.

[3] Gallagher, Michael (30 July 2012). "Effective threshold in electoral systems". Trinity College, Dublin. Archived from the original on 2017-07-30. Retrieved 22 July 2017.

[4] Comunidad Autónoma de Cataluña (4 March 2015), Ley 1/2015, de 5 de febrero, del régimen especial de Arán, pp. 20067–20100, retrieved 9 May 2022

[SpaELaw-5] "Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General". Organic Law No. 5 of 19 June 1985. Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 December 2016.

[6] "Maria Vergés, nueva secretaria general de UA". Segre.com (in Spanish). 12 December 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2023.

[7] Tedó, Xavi (28 December 2022). "ERC s'alia amb el partit de Mireia Boya per tenir presència a l'Aran". Ara.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 4 February 2023.