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Left Party (Sweden) Politicians
There are several socialist political parties with the name Left Party: * Estonian Left Party, in Estonian: ''Eesti Vasakpartei'', 1990–2008 * Estonian United Left Party in Estonian: ''Eestimaa Ühendatud Vasakpartei'', formed in 2008 * Left Bloc (Portugal), in Portuguese: ''Bloco de Esquerda'' * Left Party (France), in French: ''Parti de gauche'' * Left Party (Sweden), in Swedish: ''Vänsterpartiet'' * Left Party – Zona Franca, San Marino, in Italian: ''Partito della Sinistra – Zona Franca'' * Party of the European Left, a party at the European level * Socialist Left Party (Norway), in Norwegian: ''Sosialistisk Venstreparti'' (SV) * The Left (Germany) or Left Party * Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany), in German: ''Die Linkspartei.PDS'' See also *Left Alliance (other) *The Left (other) * Lewica (other) {{disambig, political ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonian Left Party
Estonian Left Party (, EVP) was a leftist socialist political party in Estonia. History *1990: Registration of the independent Estonian Communist Party (EKP). *1992: Congress of EKP renamed Estonian Democratic Labour Party (EDTP). *July 1995: EDLP joined New European Left Forum. *1997: Party renamed the Estonian Social Democratic Labour Party (ESDTP). *2004: ESDTP becomes founding member of European Left party. *December 2004: Estonian Social Democratic Labour Party changes name to Estonian Left Party (EVP). According to the statutes of party the party congress elects the Party Chairman and Executive board as well as nominates a consultative Central Council representing all regional organizations. Local policies are developed by local organizations, while central bodies formulate national policies. EVP lost representatives in parliament on the 2003 elections when they got 2,059 votes (0,4%). In 2007 election, it fell further to 0,1% and again got no seats. The party has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonian United Left Party
The Estonian United Left Party ( et, Eestimaa Ühendatud Vasakpartei, russian: Объединённая левая партия Эстонии, ) is a political party in Estonia representing the Russian minority in Estonia. It is a member of the Party of the European Left. History On 28 June 2008, the Estonian Left Party (a party comprising most of the remnants of the post-1990 Communist Party of Estonia) and the Constitution Party (one of two parties representing the Russian minority in Estonia) merged to form the Estonian United Left Party (''Eestimaa Ühendatud Vasakpartei''). Despite the party's professed adherence to a left-wing direction, some observers and journalists have noted and claimed that the party is perceived to be more interested in catering to Russian minority politics and has been relatively marginal in Estonian politics.In particular, party chairman Mstislav Rusakov made a comment about the party's apparent obscurity for an interview for Eesti Rahvusringhä ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Left Bloc (Portugal)
The Left Bloc ( pt, Bloco de Esquerda, ; abbr. BE, colloquially shortened as O Bloco) is a left-wing populist, democratic socialist political party in Portugal founded in 1999. It is currently led by Catarina Martins. History Formation and early history The Left Bloc was formed in March 1999 by the merger of the Marxist People's Democratic Union, Trotskyist Revolutionary Socialist Party, and the democratic socialist Politics XXI. It has had full party status since its founding, yet the constituent groups have maintained their existence as individual political associations, retaining some levels of autonomy in a loose structure. In the 1999 legislative election the BE polled at 2%. In 2002 this rose to 3%. First parliamentary representation In the 1999 election BE received 2.4% of the votes leading them to enter the Assembly of the Republic for the first time with 2 MPs for the Lisbon constituency. These representatives were Francisco Louçã and Fernando Rosas. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Left Party (France)
The Left Party (French: ', PG) is a democratic-socialist political party in France, founded in 2009 by Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marc Dolez after their departure from the Socialist Party (PS). The PG brings together personalities and groups from different political traditions; it claims a socialist, ecologist and republican orientation. Politically located between the Socialist Party and the French Communist Party, the Left Party intends to federate all the sensitivities of the anti-liberal left—which they also calls "the other left"—within the same alliance. In 2008, the PG joined forces with the Communist Party of the United Left and six other left-wing and far-left organizations in the coalition of the Left Front, of which Jean-Luc Mélenchon was the candidate for the presidential election. The PG was co-chaired from 2010 by Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Martine Billard. In 2016, the Left Party had 8,000 members. At the end of 2014, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Martine Billard re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Left Party (Sweden)
The Left Party ( sv, Vänsterpartiet ; V) is a socialist political party in Sweden. On economic issues, the party opposes privatizations and advocates increased public expenditure. In foreign policy, the party is Eurosceptic, being opposed to the European Union, NATO, and Swedish entry into the eurozone. It attempted to get Sweden to join the Non-Aligned Movement in 1980, but did not succeed. The party is eco-socialist, and also supports anti-racism, feminism, and republicanism. It is placed on the left-wing of the political spectrum. The party has never been part of a government at the national level, though it has lended parliamentary support to the Swedish Social Democratic Party-led government in the Riksdag. From 1998 to 2006, the Left Party was in a confidence-and-supply arrangement with the ruling Social Democrats and the Green Party. Since 2014, it has supported the minority government of Social Democrats and Greens in the Riksdag, as well as in many of Sweden's count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Left Party – Zona Franca
Left Party – Zona Franca ( it, Partito della Sinistra – Zona Franca, PdS) was a democratic socialist political party in San Marino whose ideology and history are similar to those of the former party Democratic Left of Italy. PdL emerged in 2005 when the Party of Democrats merged with the Sammarinese Socialist Party into the Party of Socialists and Democrats and some members decided not to join to the new party, forming instead an alliance with the Sammarinese Communist Refoundation, United Left. In the 2006 general election United Left won 8.7% of the vote and 5 members of the Grand and General Council and since then, as part of United Left, Left Party – Zona Franca has been part of the 2006-2008 governing coalition along with the Party of Socialists and Democrats and Popular Alliance until tensions between its grouping, United Left, and the latter caused the coalition to disintegrate. In the 2008 general election, United Left, the Left Party – Zona Francas poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party Of The European Left
The Party of the European Left (PEL), commonly abbreviated European Left, is a European political party that operates as an association of democratic socialist and communist political parties in the European Union and other European countries. It was formed in January 2004 for the purposes of running in the 2004 European Parliament elections. The PEL was founded on 8–9 May 2004 in Rome. The elected MEPs from member parties of the PEL sit in The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL group in the European Parliament. Several member and observer parties participate also in the more radical European Anti-Capitalist Left. Before the PEL was founded, most of its members already held annual meetings together, as part of the New European Left Forum (NELF). The current president is the German politician and economist . The four vice-presidents are , Margarita Mileva, Paolo Ferrero, and former PEL President Pierre Laurent. Swiss Brigitte Berthouzoz serves as the new EL treasur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist Left Party (Norway)
The Socialist Left Party ( no, Sosialistisk Venstreparti, sme, Sosialisttalaš Gurutbellodat, SV) is a democratic socialist political party in Norway. Positioned on the left-wing of the political spectrum, it is opposed to European Union membership, European Union and the European Economic Area membership. SV supports a strong public sector, stronger social welfare programs, environmentalism, and Republicanism in Norway, republicanism. As of 2018, the party has 11,385 members; the number has steadily increased since a low point in 2015. The party leader is Audun Lysbakken, who was elected on 11 March 2012. The party was founded in 1973 as the Socialist Electoral League, an electoral coalition with the Communist Party of Norway, Socialist People's Party (Norway), Socialist People's Party, Information Committee of the Labour Movement against Norwegian membership in the European Community, Democratic Socialists – AIK, and independent socialists. In 1975, the coalition was turned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Left (Germany)
The Left (german: Die Linke; stylised as and in its logo as ), commonly referred to as the Left Party (german: Die Linkspartei, links=no ), is a democratic socialist political party in Germany. The party was founded in 2007 as the result of the merger of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative. Through the PDS, the party is the direct descendant of the Marxist–Leninist ruling party of the former East Germany, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. Since 2022, The Left's co-chairpersons have been Janine Wissler and Martin Schirdewan. The party holds 39 seats out of 736 in the Bundestag, the federal legislature of Germany, having won 4.9% of votes cast in the 2021 German federal election. Its parliamentary group is the smallest of six in the Bundestag, and is headed by parliamentary co-leaders Amira Mohamed Ali and Dietmar Bartsch. The Left is represented in nine of Germany's sixteen state legislatures, including all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party Of Democratic Socialism (Germany)
The Party of Democratic Socialism (german: Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus, PDS) was a democratic socialist political party in Germany active between 1989 and 2007. It was the legal successor to the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), which ruled the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) as a state party until 1990.Eric D. Weitz, ''Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State.'' Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997 From 1990 through to 2005, the PDS had been seen as the left-wing "party of the East". While it achieved minimal support in western Germany, it regularly won 15% to 25% of the vote in the eastern new states of Germany, entering coalition governments (with the Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD) in the federal states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin. In 2005, the PDS, renamed The Left Party.PDS (''Die Linkspartei.PDS'') entered an electoral alliance with the Western Germany-based Electoral Alternative f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Left Alliance (other)
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The Left Alliance is the name of a number of left wing political parties: * Alliance of the Left in Spain. * Democratic Left Alliance (Poland) in Poland. * Left Alliance (Finland) * RISE – Scotland's Left Alliance * Left Alliance - UK, a grouping including the Union of Liberal Students and the Communist Party of Great Britain * Nordic Green Left Alliance, an alliance of Nordic left-wing parties * Left Alliance (Australia), an Australian student movement that flourished in the 1980s and 1990s * Leftist Alliance (Hungary), an alliance between Yes Solidarity for Hungary Movement and the Hungarian Workers' Party * Leftist Alliance The Leftist Alliance was an alliance of leftist political parties that would have run for individual seats in the Egyptian 2015 parliamentary election, though each party will run individually. Affiliated parties * Tagammu * Socialist Popular Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Left (other)
The Left may refer to : *Left-wing politics in general or to the following political parties: ** the Communist Party of India, sometimes referred to as the Left ** The Left (Bulgaria) or ''Levitsata!'' ** The Left (Czech Republic) or ''Levice'' ** The Left (Germany) or ''Die Linke'' ** The Left (Italy) or ''La Sinistra'' ** The Left (Luxembourg) or ''Déi Lénk'' ** The Left (North Macedonia) or ''Levica'' ** The Left (Poland) or ''Lewica'' ** The Left (Slovenia) or ''Levica'' ** The Left (Spain) or ''La Izquierda'' ** The Left (Switzerland) or ''Die Linke'', also known as the Alternative Left (''Alternative Linke'') ** The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL * The Left (band), American hip hop group See also * La Gauche (other) * Left Party (other) * Left Alliance (other) The Left Alliance is the name of a number of left wing political parties: * Alliance of the Left in Spain. * Democratic Left Alliance (Poland) in Poland. * Left Alliance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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