Catalonia in the Senate

{{Short description|Catalan Senate alliance and parliamentary group}}

{{Expand Spanish|topic=hist|Catalunya al Senat|date=December 2017}}

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| native_name = Catalunya al Senat

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| spokesperson = Ramon Sala i Canadell

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| founded = {{Start date|df=yes|1982}}

| dissolved = {{End date|df=yes|1983|04}}

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| ideology = Catalan nationalism

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| country = Spain

| state = Catalonia

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Catalonia in the Senate ({{langx|ca|Catalunya al Senat}}) was a Catalan electoral alliance formed by Convergence and Union (CiU) and Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) to contest the 1982 Spanish Senate election.{{cite news |date=30 October 1982 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1982/10/30/espana/404780459_850215.html |title=Convèrgencia saca en estas elecciones cuatro senadores más y los socialistas uno |language=Spanish |newspaper=El País |access-date=16 July 2020}}{{cite web |url=http://www.historiaelectoral.com/senatcatalunya.html |title=Catalonia: Spanish Senate elections 1977-2019 |language=Spanish |website=historiaelectoral.com |publisher=Electoral History |access-date=16 July 2020}} It then existed as a parliamentary group in the Senate of Spain during the 1982–1986 legislature,{{cite web |url=http://www.senado.es/web/composicionorganizacion/gruposparlamentarios/gruposparlamentariosdesde1977/index.html |title=Parliamentary Groups since 1977 |language=Spanish |website=www.senado.es |publisher=Senate of Spain |access-date=16 July 2020}} whose constitution was allowed through the temporary incorporation of three senators from the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD),{{cite news |date=25 November 1982 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1982/11/25/espana/407026817_850215.html |title=El Parlamento de Cataluña podría aceptar provisionalmente tener sólo seis representantes en el Senado |language=Spanish |newspaper=El País |access-date=16 July 2020}} though in practice it worked as CiU's group upon ERC's withdrawal in April 1983.{{cite web |url=http://www.historiaelectoral.com/grups.html |title=Parliamentary Groups in the Congress of Deputies and Senate |language=Spanish |website=historiaelectoral.com |publisher=Electoral History |access-date=15 March 2019}}{{cite web |url=http://www.historiaelectoral.com/senado7.html |title=Senate Composition 1977-2019 |language=Spanish |website=historiaelectoral.com |publisher=Electoral History |access-date=15 March 2019}}