The Left for the Right to Decide ( ca, L'Esquerra pel Dret a Decidir, EPDD) was an electoral alliance formed for the 2014 European Parliament elections. The leading candidate was

Josep Maria Terricabras Josep Maria Terricabras i Nogueras (Calella, 1946) is a Catalan philosopher, professor and politician from Spain. He was elected Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Republican Left of Catalonia in the 2014 European Parliament election ...

. The alliance consisted of three parties: Republican Left of Catalonia,

New Catalan Left New Catalan Left ( ca, Nova Esquerra Catalana, NECat) was a Catalanist and pro-independence political party founded in December 2012 as a split from the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC) by Ernest Maragall, brother of former Catalan president P ...

and

Catalonia Yes Catalonia Yes ( ca, Catalunya Sí, CatSí) is a Catalan independence political platform founded in 2011 bringing together people from civil society and various public figures in favour of independence for Catalonia. In order to be able to run in c ...

. Also form the coalition: ''Socialisme, Catalunya i Llibertat'' and

Young Republican Left of Catalonia The Republican Youth (in Catalan: ''Jovent Republicà'') is a left-wing political party, and also the youth wing of the Republican Left of Catalonia (in Catalan: ''Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya'', ERC), a Catalan pro-independence party. Unti ...

. The program of the alliance promotes the

independence of Catalonia The Catalan independence movement ( ca, independentisme català; Spanish: ''independentismo catalán'') is a social and political movement (with roots in Catalan nationalism) which seeks the independence of Catalonia from Spain. The beginnings o ...

and social justice.Comencem el nou país. Ara, a Europa
, manifesto of Esquerra Republicana, Nova Esquerra Catalana i Catalunya Sí.

Composition

List of candidates

( ERC) #

Ernest Maragall Ernest Maragall i Mira (born 5 January 1943, in Barcelona) is a Spanish economist, politician, member of the Parliament of Catalonia and former Minister of Foreign Action, Institutional Relations and Transparency of Catalonia. He was previously ...

(Catalan New Left) # Jordi Solé (ERC) # Elisabet Nebreda (ERC) # Marie Krapetz (ERC) # Andreu Criquet (

JERC The Republican Youth (in Catalan: ''Jovent Republicà'') is a left-wing political party, and also the youth wing of the Republican Left of Catalonia (in Catalan: ''Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya'', ERC), a Catalan pro-independence party. Until ...

) # Miquel Àngel Sureda ( ER, federation of the

Balearic Islands The Balearic Islands ( es, Islas Baleares ; or ca, Illes Balears ) are an archipelago in the Balearic Sea, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula. The archipelago is an autonomous community and a province of Spain; its capital is ...

) # Gabriel Fernàndez (Socialisme, Catalunya i Llibertat) # Magda Casamitjana (Catalan New Left) # Eloïsa Chamarro ( ERPV, federation of the Valencian Country)

Electoral performance

European Parliament

References

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External links

L'Esquerra pel Dret a Decidir
Defunct political party alliances in Spain Regionalist parties in Spain Republican Left of Catalonia