United and Alternative Left

Political party in CataloniaUnited and Alternative Left Esquerra Unida i AlternativaGeneral SecretaryMercedes Vidal LagoFounded1998 (1998)Merger ofParty of the Communists of CataloniaLiving Unified Socialist Party of CataloniaRevolutionary Workers' PartySplit fromInitiative for Catalonia GreensHeadquartersC/Doctor Aiguader,10 08003 BarcelonaIdeologySocialismCommunismCatalan self-determinationRepublicanismPolitical positionLeft-wingNational affiliationUnited Left (1998–2019)Regional affiliationICV–EUiA (2003–2015)Catalunya Sí que es Pot (2015–2017)En Comú Podem (2015–2019)Catalunya en Comú (2017–2019)Republican Left of Catalonia (since 2023)European affiliationParty of the European LeftEuropean Anti-Capitalist LeftColours CrimsonCongress of Deputies0 / 350Senate0 / 266European Parliament0 / 61Websitesemprealesquerra.catPolitics of CataloniaPolitical partiesElections United and Alternative Left (Catalan: Esquerra Unida i Alternativa, EUiA) is a political party in Catalonia, Spain. EUiA has 4000 members, and until 2019 was the Catalan correspondent of the Spain-wide United Left (IU). Annual EUiA dinner party, 2007 It was formed in 1998 as a schism from Initiative for Ca