The Republican Left of Catalonia (Catalan: Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, ERC; ) is a left wing Catalan independentist political party in Spain. It is also the main sponsor of the independence movement from France and Spain in the territories known among Catalan nationalists as Països Catalans. Occitan Republican Left, formed in 2008, acts as the Aranese section.
Its current president is Oriol Junqueras and its secretary-general is Marta Rovira.
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