title: Caballas Coalition
text: # Caballas Coalition
  
  The Caballas Coalition (Spanish: Coalición Caballas, i.e., Mackerel Coallition) was a left-wing regionalist party in the Spanish autonomous city of Ceuta in north Africa.
  
  ## History
  
  The party formed for the 2011 election as a merger between the Ceutan Democratic Union (UDCE) and the Socialist Party of the People of Ceuta (PSPC). The coalition won 4,404 votes (14.34%) in the 2011 elections, earning 4 of the 25 seats in the Ceuta Assembly, making it the second-largest party after the People's Party (PP). The coalition aims for the official recognition of Moroccan Arabic in Ceuta. The coalition, through its two member-parties, was endorsed with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) until July 2013. The split came from differences of opinion over controversial comments towards women, made by a local Muslim cleric.
  
  On 15 October 2021, the coalition announced its transformation into a platform called Ceuta Ya! (Ceuta Now!).
  
  ## Election results
  
  ### Ceuta Assembly
  
  Ceuta Assembly :
  
  | Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Leading candidate | Government |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 2011 | 4,407 | 14.32 (#2) | 4 / 25 | 0 | Mohamed Alí | Opposition |
  | 2015 | 3,881 | 13.27 (#3) | 4 / 25 | 0 | Mohamed Alí | Opposition |
  | 2019 | 2,105 | 6.22 (#5) | 1 / 25 | 3 | Mohamed Alí | Opposition |
  