. Areas of highest support in red and lowest in blue. Anglada started the party on 15 January 2001 as the
Plataforma Vigatana (Platform for Vic). The PxC entered their first municipal elections in 2003, winning one seat in five respective cities.
Cervera in
Lleida province gave the largest percentage to the party, at 9.2%. In the
2010 Catalan parliamentary election, they received 2.4% of votes, falling 15,000 votes short of entering Parliament. In the
2011 local elections, PxC got 65,905 votes, and grew from 17 to 67 councillors. Two were elected in
Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia's second-largest city. Three were elected in
Santa Coloma de Gramenet, which along with the two in Hospitalet constitute the PxC's first representation in Greater Barcelona.
Mataró, in
Barcelona province, had the highest percentage voting for the party (10.49%, three seats). In Vic, the PxC grew from four to five councillors, making them the city's second-largest party after
Convergence and Union.
Splits In 2014, then longtime president
Josep Anglada was kicked out from the party for "management deficiency". The same year, members of the party supportive of the
Catalan independence movement left to found their own political party:
Som Catalans ("We are Catalans"). In 2016, Anglada would go on to found a new party: , which would successfully run in the subsequent municipal elections in
Vic and
Manlleu. For the
2019 European Parliament election in Spain, Som Identitaris endorsed
ADÑ–Spanish Identity, urging supporters to vote for them.
Failed attempt at national expansion Parties affiliated with the PxC were set up in other regions of Spain, however they have not obtained any electoral success. The Platform for Madrid (, PxM) cut off its links to Anglada's party in March 2006. In 2012, Anglada announced the launch of the Platform for Freedom (, PxL) an expansion of the party into the rest of Spain. Anglada and the PxL have protested against the construction of
mosques in Spain. Plataforma por la Libertad was refounded in 2013 as the
Party for Freedom.
Dissolution On 16 February 2019, PxC was absorbed into
Vox. == Ideology ==