Building the Left–Socialist Alternative (, CLI–AS), also known as Socialist Alternative (, AS), was a

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. The party was founded in 2013 by members of the

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critical with the

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positions of the party, along with independents and people from the

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. It was dissolved in 2018.

History

CLI–AS supported the

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in the European Parliament election of 2014, Popular Unity for the Spanish elections of 2015 and

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for the Spanish elections of 2016.

References

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