European Left Alliance for the People and the Planet

European Left Alliance for the People and the Planet
AbbreviationELA
Chairperson
Secretary-GeneralSophie Rauszer
Founded28 August 2024; 3 months ago (2024-08-28)
Registered27 September 2024 (2024-09-27)
Split fromEuropean Left
Ideology
Political positionLeft-wing[1]
European Parliament groupThe Left
Colours  Green
  Purple
  Red
European Parliament
18 / 720
European Council
0 / 27
European Commission
0 / 27
Website
leftalliance.eu

The European Left Alliance for the People and the Planet (ELA) is a European political party formed as a split from the Party of the European Left (PEL).[2][3]

The ELA consists of seven national-level political parties connected to Now the People (NTP), itself formed in 2018. Their members tend to be newer, green-left leaning parties, and lament the dominance of traditional communist parties after the outcome of the 2024 European Parliament election and the exit of three parties from the PEL (Left Bloc from Portugal, Left Alliance from Finland and France Unbowed from France).[4][5]

History

Foundation

The first officially confirmed member of the ELA was the Red-Green Alliance of Denmark.[4] Other founder members were Portugal's Left Bloc, La France Insoumise, the Swedish Left Party, Finland's Left Alliance, Poland's Left Together and Spain's Podemos.[6]

In the European Parliament, MEPs of both PEL and the ELA belong to the parlamentary group of The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL.[7][8]

Factions of Germany's The Left submitted a motion to express its loyalty towards PEL claiming that the "fragmentation of the European left at a time of the rise of the extreme right is a mistake."[9]

On 27 September 2024, the Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations formally registered the ELA as a European political party.[10]

Members

ELA has 18 of 46 MEPs who compose the Left group in the European Parliament.[11]

EU member state Party[11] EL[7][12] NTP[13] MEPs National MPs
 Denmark Red–Green Alliance Member until 2024 Yes
1 / 14
9 / 179
 Finland Left Alliance Member until 2022, observer until 2024 Yes
3 / 15
11 / 200
 France La France insoumise Member until 2018, observer until 2024 Yes
9 / 81
70 / 577
 Poland Left Together N/A No –
5 / 460
 Portugal Left Bloc Member until 2024 Yes
1 / 21
5 / 230
 Spain Podemos N/A Yes
2 / 61
4 / 350
 Sweden Left Party N/A Yes
2 / 21
24 / 349

Political representation in European institutions

Organisation Institution Number of seats
 European Union European Parliament
18 / 720
European Commission
0 / 27
European Council
(Heads of Government)
0 / 27
Council of the European Union
(Participation in Government)
 Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Soler, Paula; Sánchez Alonso, Aïda (9 September 2024). "New European Left Alliance eyes expansion into centre-east". Euronews. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
  2. ^ "AGENCE EUROPE - A new European feminist and radical left party is being form..." agenceurope.eu. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
  3. ^ "Registered Parties". Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
  4. ^ a b Neivelt, Jonas (2024-08-27). "Enhedslisten forlader European Left og går med i nyt europæisk parti". Solidaritet (in Danish). Retrieved 2024-08-30.
  5. ^ "Will they name names?". POLITICO. 2024-08-30. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
  6. ^ https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/09/09/european-left-party-splits-as-new-group-eyes-new-central-and-eastern-countries
  7. ^ a b "Una desolante divisione della sinistra in Europa". il manifesto (in Italian). 2024-09-02. Retrieved 2024-09-03.
  8. ^ redazione (2024-09-03). "In Europa una desolante divisione della sinistra • Diritti Globali". Diritti Globali (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-09-08.
  9. ^ Uwe Sattler (2024-09-06). "„Die Zersplitterung der europäischen Linken ist ein Fehler"". die-zukunft.eu (in German). Retrieved 2024-09-12.
  10. ^ "European Left Alliance for the People and the Planet". Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations. 2024-09-27. Retrieved 2024-09-30.
  11. ^ a b "Brat summer ends in sausage fest". POLITICO. 2024-09-03. Retrieved 2024-09-03.
  12. ^ Mayer, Leo (2024-09-05). "www.kommunisten.de – Eine desolate Spaltung der Linken in Europa". www.kommunisten.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-09-08.
  13. ^ "Now The People !". Now The People ! (in French). Retrieved 2024-09-02.
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