The Party for the Autonomy of Gibraltar (PAG) was a minority right-wing

Right-wing politics

In politics, Right, right-wing and rightist generally refer to support for a hierarchical society justified on the basis of an appeal to natural law or tradition. To varying degrees, the Right rejects the egalitarian objectives of left-wing politics, claiming that the imposition of equality is...

 political party in Gibraltar

Gibraltar

Gibraltar is a British overseas territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance of the Mediterranean. A peninsula with an area of , it has a northern border with Andalusia, Spain. The Rock of Gibraltar is the major landmark of the region...

 founded on 7 September 1977. It was led by Joseph Triay

Joseph Triay

Joseph Emmanuel Triay is a Gibraltarian lawyer, best know by having been one of the promoters of the Doves group in the 1960s. Triay suffered an attack to his home and office shortly after the publication of a letter advocating a political settlement with Spain...

 and asked for a rapprochement with Spain

Spain

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. It contended the 1980 election, without success.

Policy

The PAG was led by Joseph Triay, a former member of the "Doves

Doves (Gibraltar)

"The Doves" was the pseudonym under which a group of six Gibraltarian lawyers and businessmen published a letter on 15 March 1968 in the Gibraltar Chronicle advocating a political settlement with Spain to solve the disputed status of Gibraltar....

" in the 1960s and independent candidate in 1976 election. It asked for a settlement with Spain, with an autonomous

Autonomy

Autonomy is a concept found in moral, political and bioethical philosophy. Within these contexts, it is the capacity of a rational individual to make an informed, un-coerced decision...

 status for Gibraltar under Spanish sovereignty

Sovereignty

Sovereignty is the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a geographic area, such as a territory. It can be found in a power to rule and make law that rests on a political fact for which no purely legal explanation can be provided...

 (following the Autonomies

Statute of Autonomy

Nominally, a Statute of Autonomy is a law hierarchically located under the constitution of a country, and over any other form of legislation...

 approach in the territorial structure of Spain made possible by the Spanish Constitution of 1978

Spanish Constitution of 1978

-Structure of the State:The Constitution recognizes the existence of nationalities and regions . Preliminary Title As a result, Spain is now composed entirely of 17 Autonomous Communities and two autonomous cities with varying degrees of autonomy, to the extent that, even though the Constitution...

). It argued that it was pro-Gibraltarian

Gibraltarian people

The Gibraltarians are a cultural group native to Gibraltar, a British overseas territory located near the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance to the Mediterranean sea.- Origins :...

 and nationalist

Nationalism

Nationalism is a political ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms, i.e. a nation. In the 'modernist' image of the nation, it is nationalism that creates national identity. There are various definitions for what...

, and against the British

United Kingdom

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 colonial

Crown colony

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 presence, seen as obstructing the development of the territory. On the other hand, its opponents labelled it as pro-Spanish and the sell-out party.

Joe Bossano

Joe Bossano

Joseph "Joe" John Bossano is a Gibraltarian politician, and the former leader of the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party. He was Chief Minister of Gibraltar from 25 March 1988 to 17 May 1996. He served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Gibraltar Parliament from its founding in 1978 until April...

, former Chief Minister of Gibraltar

Chief Minister of Gibraltar

The Chief Minister of Gibraltar is the leader of the largest party elected to the Gibraltar Parliament, and is formally appointed by the Governor of Gibraltar, representative of the British Crown.-List of Chief Ministers:...

 and later Leader of the Opposition has accused the incumbent Chief Minister, Peter Caruana

Peter Caruana

Peter Richard Caruana, QC is a Gibraltarian politician, and has been Chief Minister of Gibraltar since 1996, when his party, the Gibraltar Social Democrats , first came to power. His party was re-elected to office in 2000, 2003 and 2007...

, of having been an electoral agent of the PAG.

Elections

It nominated three candidates in the 1980 election, the Triay brothers and Tito Benady

Tito Benady

Tito Mesod Benady , MBE, is a Gibraltarian historian of Sephardic Jewish descent. He currently lives in Grendon in the United Kingdom....

, obtaining poor results. Although the party still existed by the 1984 election, it decided not to contest.