Spanish Catholic Movement

Spanish Catholic Movement

Movimiento Catolico Espanol
Spanish Catholic Movement Movimiento Catolico Espanol
Leader	Jose Luis Corral
Founded	1981
Youth wing	Accion Juvenil Espanola
Ideology	Integralism ; National Catholicism ; Spanish nationalism ; Traditionalism ; Anticommunism
Political position	Far-right
Website
	www.movimientocatolico.es ; www.mce-aje.es
	Politics of Spain ; Political parties ; Elections ;

Spanish Catholic Movement ( Movimiento Catolico Espanol in Spanish , MCE ) is a Spanish Catholic integralist and nationalist political party. The party also considers itself National Catholic and a follower of the ideas of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera . ^[1] The party uses the Cross of Saint James as its main symbol.

History [ edit ]

MCE was founded in 1981 as a splinter group from Fuerza Nueva , led by Jose Luis Corral. In the Spanish general elections of 1982 the party received 996 votes, less than 1% of the total. In the following years the MCE organized masses, tributes to the Blue Division veterans and to the "fallen for Spain ", as well as numerous rallies against abortion . The party has its ideological roots in Spanish Action and Spanish Renovation , Social Catholic , Integralist and Traditionalist organizations during Spanish Civil War . In the last 10 years the party has also organized acts against homosexuals ^[2]^[3] or catalan independentism . ^[4]

As of June 2016, the party is a member of the far-right coalition La Espana en Marcha . ^[5]