The Workers' Party of Hungary 2006 – European Left (), shortly European Left is a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

. It was created in mid-November 2005 from the internal opposition of the

Hungarian Workers' Party The Hungarian Workers' Party (, ) is a communist party in Hungary led by Gyula Thürmer. Established after the fall of the communist Hungarian People's Republic, the party has yet to win a seat in the Hungarian parliament. Until May 2009, it w ...

(then the Hungarian Communist Workers' Party). Its leader is János Fratanolo. Its request to become a member of the

Party of the European Left The Party of the European Left (PEL), or European Left (EL), 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 ...

was accepted by the EL Executive Board, during the meeting held in Geneva from 23 to 25 October 2009.

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On 8 September 2016, the

Táncsics – Radical Left Party The Táncsics – Radical Left Party () was a left-wing democratic socialist political party in Hungary. It was formed at a meeting in March 2014. It drew its membership from different civil society organizations as well as former members of the H ...

(then known as the Left Party) announced on its website that the two parties will cooperate in preparation for the 2018 parliamentary election. In early 2022, the

Social Democratic Party of Hungary The Social Democratic Party of Hungary (, , MSZDP) is a social democracy, social democratic list of political parties in Hungary, political party in Hungary. Historically, the party was dissolved during Government of National Unity (Hungary), the ...

announced on its website that the two parties will cooperate in preparation for the 2022 parliamentary election. Joining forces, the two parties did not manage to stand a single official candidate in the election according to the official website of the election office, valasztas.hu. Also in 2022, the People's Front announced that they will join the party but will continue as a political organization.

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