Nova-Occitania legislative election, November 2019

Nova-Occitania legislative election, November 2019

22-23 November 2019
6 seats of the Amassada 4 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	▼75%
First party Second party Third party   File:VincentB.png Leader Ivanna Minaïeva Vicent Branchadell Juan Cisneros Party Democratic Party (Nova-Occitania) Montserrat Civic Unity Party (Occitania) Leader's seat Midi-Gironde Iberia Foreign Last election 65.22% New party New party Seats before 5 New party New party Seats won 4 2 0 Seat change ▼1 ▲2 0 Popular vote 11 9 0 Percentage 52.38% 42.86% 0% Swing ▼12,84% ▲42.86% 0
Prime Minister before election Vicent Branchadell Montserrat Elected Prime Minister Ivanna Minaïeva Democratic Party (Nova-Occitania)

The Nova-Occitania legislative election, November 2019 was the second legislative election of Nova-Occitania, after the dissolution of the precedent legislature by the President of the Union on Sunday 22 November 2019, five months after the previous legislative election in July 2019.

Electoral system

The law currently in force was voted by the Amassada on 2 November 2019. It divides the Union into three constituencies (Iberia, Midi-Gironde and Mixed). Each constituency elects one, two or three deputies. The election is held in one round and the deputies are elected in absolute proportional representation.

Constituency	Territories	Number of deputies
Iberia	Aragon-Treserols Three Flowers	3
Midi-Gironde	Shalom Tartuga	2
Mixed	Babougrad Loch Occitania	1

Date of the election

The decree made by the President of Occitania said that the election would be held Saturday, November 23, 2019. By custom, it is appropriate to file the lists in the constiutionel court ten days before that date, ie November 13. There are no standards defining a possible beginning of the official campaign.

Background

Initial political crisis

After several weeks of scramble within the majority leading to a political imobilism, leaders of the party Convergence and Will gathered for a congress called the Congress of All Saints 2019. Two resolutions were approved by the congress, in the first place a new name of the party (Convergence and Will moves to the Democratic Party), and a new alignment on social democratic politics. Subsequently, Prime Minister Vicent Branchadell left the party to rebuild his former party, Montserrat, pro-Catalan and anti-capitalist in alliance with the Democratic Party.

Dissolution of the assembly by the President of the Union

Two days after the Congress of All Saints 2019, in accordance with article 9b of the occitanian constitution, the President of the Union Babou Chkaya has dissolved the I Legislature and called early elections on November 23, at the same time as the local elections. It was decided later to open the polling stations on Friday 22 and closed them on Saturday 23. A few minutes before its dissolution, the parliament passed an electoral law on the Spanish model, the Union is divided into several constituencies on which will be elected 1, 2 or 3 deputies.

Contesting political parties and candidates

On November 6th 2019, the Constitutional court has published the link for the registration of candidates. On the same day, Montserrat party has send it's list, the party will be running only in Iberia with Vicent Branchadell has head of list and candidate for Prime Minister office.

One day later, former President of the Union Juan Cisneros has also send his candidacy in the Mixed Constituency, being the only candidate of a new party called Civic Unity Party. More later the Democratic Party has also transmitted it's lists, presenting candidates in the three constituency and with Ivanna Minaïeva as candidate for Prime Minister office.

Democratic Party Election poster

Slogans

Parties and coalitions		Original text	English translation
	Democratic Party	Unity x Compromis	Unity x Compromise

Opinion polling and seat projections

Only one seat projection was published during the campaign, few hours before the vote by the occitanian broadcaster TV OC.

Pollster	Release	D	MON	CUP
TV OC	22 November 2019	4	1	1

Results

General

↓
4	2
Democratic	Montserrat

Party			Votes	%	Swing (pp)	Seats	Change (seats)
	Democratic		11	52.38	-12.84	4	▼ 1
	Montserrat		9	42.86	+42.86	2	▲ 2
	Civic Unity Party		0	0	0	0
Total			20	95.24	–	6	▲ 1
Invalid/blank votes			1	4.76	-30.02	–	–
Registered voters/turnout			21	75	-13	–	–
Source: "Publication des résultats" on e-NOC"

Popular Vote
Democratic			52.38%
Montserrat			42.86%
Civic Unity Party			0%

Amassada Seats
Democratic			66.67%
Montserrat			33.33%
Civic Unity Party			0%

Members

Previous MP	Party		Elected MP	Party		Took office	Seat #
Elected
Vicent Branchadell		CiV	Vicent Branchadell		Montserrat	28 July 2019	Iberia 1
Maria Fabré		CiV	Maria Fabré		Democratic	28 July 2019	Iberia 2
Seat Created		Seat Created	Conxa Mazarich		Montserrat	23 November 2019	Iberia 3
Ivanna Minaïeva		CiV	Ivanna Minaïeva		Democratic	28 July 2019	Midi-Gascony 1
Adélia Cerdan		CiV	Adélia Cerdan		Democratic	28 July 2019	Midi-Gascony 2
Babou Chkaya		CiV	Babou Chkaya		Democratic	28 July 2019	Mixed 1

Midi-Gironde Constituency

Party		List	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Democratic Party	Ivanna Minaïeva Adélia Cerdan	5	100%	2

Iberia Constituency

Party		List	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Democratic Party	Maria Fabré	4	30.77 %	1
	Montserrat	Vicent Branchadell Conchita 'Conxa' Mazarich Mariana Branchadell	9	69.23 %	2

Mixted Constituency

Party		List	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Democratic Party	Babou Chkaya	2	100%	1
	Civic Unity Party	Juan Cisneros	0	0%	0

See also

• Nova-Occitania legislative election, July 2019