À gauche toute! Genève is a political coalition in the

canton of Geneva The Canton of Geneva, officially the Republic and Canton of Geneva, is one of the Cantons of Switzerland, 26 cantons of the Switzerland, Swiss Confederation. It is composed of forty-five Municipality, municipalities, and the seat of the governme ...

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Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

) founded in 2006. It is a regrouping of the Genevan Communist Party, the Swiss Labour Party,

solidaritéS Solidarity () Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1898 is a socialist and Trotskyist political party, present in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, in the cantons of Geneva, Vaud, Neuchâtel and Fribou ...

and the Left Independents. In 2005, the Left Alliance, which united the Labour Party, solidaritéS and the Independents, broke up because of political differences. In the Genevan cantonal elections in the autumn of 2005, these parties failed to obtain the quorum of 7% of votes because of the divisions caused by the presence of a Communist Party List. The far left are excluded from parliament. The following year, the far left were able to enter a communal project. The new coalition took the name of ''A Gauche toute!'' and joined the national coalition of the same name led by Vaudois

Josef Zisyadis Josef Zisyadis (born 17 April 1956) is a Switzerland, Swiss politician, a member of the Swiss Party of Labour, and of the Alternative Left (since 2010). Born to Greeks in Turkey#Republic of Turkey, Greek parents in Istanbul, and after a sojourn ...

, who organised the far left at the national level. In the communal elections of 25 March 2007, À gauche toute! Genève stood on the lists of 10 communes. In the town of Geneva, À gauche toute! presented 43 candidates including Catherine Gaillard, Marie-France Spielmann, Salika Wenger and Jérôme Béguin.

External links

Site of A gauche toute!
{{DEFAULTSORT:A gauche toute Geneve Political parties in the canton of Geneva Political party alliances in Switzerland