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Party of the European Left

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Party of the European Left

Partei der Europäischen Linken
Parti de la Gauche Européenne
Partito della Sinistra Europea
Partido de la Izquierda Europea
Partido da Esquerda Europeia
Κόμμα Ευρωπαϊκής Αριστεράς
Avrupa Sol Partisi
Il-Partit Ewropew tax-Xellug
AbbreviationPEL
PresidentWalter Baier
Martin SchirdewanLeader in the EP
Founded8–9 May 2004
HeadquartersSquare de Meeûs 25, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Think tankTransform Europe
Women's wingEL-Fem
Political orientationReformism
Socialism
Social Democracy
Eurocommunism (Factions)
Democratic Socialism
European Parliament groupThe Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL
Website
www.european-left.org


The Party of the European Left (PEL), or European Left (EL), is a political party in Europe comprised of several small socialist and communist parties mostly within the European Union. The party is reformist and seeks to reform Europe and the EU through participating in national and European parliament elections rather than through dismantling the imperialist union.[1]

Member parties[edit | edit source]

The Party of the European Left has 26 member parties along with 10 observer parties and 9 EL partners.[2]

Full members[edit | edit source]

Country Party
Austria Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ)
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Belarus Belarusian Left Party "A Just World"
Belgium Communists of Wallonia-Brussels
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Bulgaria Bulgarian Left (BL)
Croatia Workers' Front (RF)
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Czech Republic The Left
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Denmark Red–Green Alliance (EL)
Estonia Estonian United Left Party
Finland Communist Party of Finland (SKP)
France French Communist Party (PCF)
Republican and Socialist Left (GRS)
Germany The Left
Greece Syriza
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Hungary Workers' Party of Hungary 2006 – European Left
Italy Communist Refoundation Party (PRC)
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Luxembourg The Left
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Moldova Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM)
Portugal Left Bloc
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Romania Romanian Socialist Party (PSR)
Slovenia The Left
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Spain United Left (IU)
Communist Party of Spain (PCE)
Catalonia (Spain) United and Alternative Left (EUiA)
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Switzerland Swiss Party of Labour
Turkey Left Party
United Kingdom Left Unity

Observer members[edit | edit source]

EL-Partners[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. "Who we are". Party of the European Left. Archived from the original on 2024-04-02.
  2. "Our parties". Party of the European Left. Archived from the original on 2024-04-02.