The
Occitan Party (
OccitanOccitan , known also as Lenga d'òc in Occitan or Langue d'oc in French is a Romance language spoken in Occitania, that is, Southern France, the Occitan Valleys of Italy, Monaco and in the Aran Valley of Spain...
:
Partit Occitan) is a
political partyA political party is a political organization that seeks to attain and maintain political power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns...
in
FranceFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
. Its aims include greater autonomy for the
OccitaniaOccitania , also called sometimes the Oc Country , is the territory where Occitan is the traditional language in use. This cultural area is roughly the southern half of France. It includes Monaco, spans parts of Italy and Spain...
region of southern France. The Occitan Party was formed in
ToulouseToulouse is a city in southwest France on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. With 1,102,882 inhabitants as of Jan...
in 1987 through the union of different occitanist movements (
Volem Viure al Païs, Païs Nòstre etc), of candidates to the 1986 regional elections a d of various individuals.
The party's aims are:
- To set up a credible Occitanist political movement, independent of all other parties and struggling for Occitan self-government.
- To dis-alienate and raise the consciousness of the Occitan people.
- To make the Occitan question come out in the political field.
Since 1987, the Occitan Party has contested elections at all levels in different constituencies.
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The
Occitan Party (
OccitanOccitan , known also as Lenga d'òc in Occitan or Langue d'oc in French is a Romance language spoken in Occitania, that is, Southern France, the Occitan Valleys of Italy, Monaco and in the Aran Valley of Spain...
:
Partit Occitan) is a
political partyA political party is a political organization that seeks to attain and maintain political power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns...
in
FranceFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
. Its aims include greater autonomy for the
OccitaniaOccitania , also called sometimes the Oc Country , is the territory where Occitan is the traditional language in use. This cultural area is roughly the southern half of France. It includes Monaco, spans parts of Italy and Spain...
region of southern France. The Occitan Party was formed in
ToulouseToulouse is a city in southwest France on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. With 1,102,882 inhabitants as of Jan...
in 1987 through the union of different occitanist movements (
Volem Viure al Païs, Païs Nòstre etc), of candidates to the 1986 regional elections a d of various individuals.
The party's aims are:
- To set up a credible Occitanist political movement, independent of all other parties and struggling for Occitan self-government.
- To dis-alienate and raise the consciousness of the Occitan people.
- To make the Occitan question come out in the political field.
Electoral and political action
Since 1987, the Occitan Party has contested elections at all levels in different constituencies. In the
1997 parliamentary electionsFrench legislative election took place on 25 May and 1 June 1997 to elect the 11th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. It was the consequence of President Jacques Chirac's decision to call the legislative election one year before the deadline....
, the POC's best candidates polled 1.8% of the vote. Party members hold office in a few townships, including
Saint-HostienSaint-Hostien is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France.-References:*...
.
The Occitan Party takes part in economical or regional development struggles. Its members are active in struggles for the keeping of local jobs, against wholesale tourist commercialization, against the
nuclear powerNuclear power is power produced from controlled nuclear reactions. Commercial plants in use to date use nuclear fission reactions....
industry, and for the preservation of Occitania's natural environment. They also take part in the defence of the
Occitan languageOccitan , known also as Lenga d'òc in Occitan or Langue d'oc in French is a Romance language spoken in Occitania, that is, Southern France, the Occitan Valleys of Italy, Monaco and in the Aran Valley of Spain...
and identity.
The Party's paper,
Occitània, comes out every two months.
International relationships
The Occitan Party belongs to the
Fédération Régions et Peuples SolidairesFédération Régions et Peuples Solidaires is a political federation of various regionalist parties in France. It was founded in 1995, in order to organise a coordinated combat against "Parisian centrism" and "Jacobin conception of peoples" on the French state level...
federation which brings together different regionalist and nationalist political movements in the French state. The Occitan Party also belongs to the
European Free AllianceThe European Free Alliance is a European political party. It consists of various European political parties which advocate either full political independence , or some form of devolution or self-government for their country or region. The alliance has generally limited its membership to...
.
Internal organisation
Local or departmental committees are grouped in regional federations. The National Council brings together delegates from the different regional federations (the party's parliament). The National Bureau is elected every two years by a Congress that is open to every party member.
External links
- Occitània - VVAP, BP 28, F- 81370 St Sulpici La Punta, the revue of the party (every two months).