United and Alternative Left

United and Alternative Left
United and Alternative Left; Esquerra Unida i Alternativa
General Secretary	Joan Josep Nuet
Founded	1998
Merger of	Communists of Catalonia; Living Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia; Revolutionary Workers' Party;
Headquarters	C/Doctor Aiguader,10 ; 08003 Barcelona
Ideology	Socialism; Communism; Marxism; Ecologism; Catalan self-determination; Republicanism;
Political position	Left-wing
National affiliation	Catalunya en Comú; En Comú Podem; United Left; Plural Left; Unidos Podemos;
European affiliation	Party of the European Left; European Anti-Capitalist Left;
European Parliament group	GUE/NGL
Colours	Crimson
Parliament of Catalonia	1 / 135 Inside Catalunya en Comú–Podem
Congress of Deputies	2 / 47 Inside En Comú Podem
Website
	www.semprealesquerra.cat
	Politics of Catalonia; Political parties; Elections;

United and Alternative Left (Catalan: Esquerra Unida i Alternativa, EUiA) is a political party in Catalonia, Spain. EUiA has 4000 members and it is the Catalan correspondent of the Spain-wide United Left (IU).

Annual EUiA dinner party, 2007

It was formed in 1998 as a schism from Iniciativa per Catalunya (IpC). It comprises an alliance of Party of the Communists of Catalonia, Living Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia, POR, PRT-IR, PASOC, CEA and CLI. After competing in a series of elections with their former colleagues at Iniciativa, the two parties agreed to run together as an electoral coalition. Currently, 2 out of the 12 MPs at the regional Parliament of Catalonia ascribed to the IpC-EUiA group are members of this latter party.

Electoral performance

Parliament of Catalonia

Date	Votes			Seats		Status	Size
Date	#	%	±pp	#	±	Status	Size
1999	44,454	1.4%	—	0 / 135	—	N/A	6th
2003	241,163	7.3%	+5.9	1 / 135	1	Government	*
2006	282,693	9.5%	+2.2	2 / 135	1	Government	*
2010	230,824	7.4%	–2.1	2 / 135	0	Opposition	*
2012	359,705	9.9%	+2.5	3 / 135	1	Opposition	*
2015	367,613	8.9%	–1.0	1 / 135	2	Opposition	**
2017	326,360	7.5%	–1.4	1 / 135	0	Opposition	***

* Within Initiative for Catalonia Greens–United and Alternative Left.
** Within Catalunya Sí que es Pot.
*** Within Catalunya en Comú–Podem.

Cortes Generales

Catalonia

Congress of Deputies
Date	Votes			Seats		Size
Date	#	%	±pp	#	±	Size
2000	75,019	2.2%	—	0 / 46	–	6th
2004	234,790	5.8%	+3.6	0 / 47	0	*
2008	183,338	4.9%	–0.9	0 / 47	0	*
2011	280,152	8.1%	+3.2	1 / 47	1	*
2015	929,880	24.7%	+16.6	2 / 47	1	**
2016	853,102	24.5%	–0.2	2 / 47	0	**

Senate
Date	Seats		Size
Date	#	±	Size
2000	0 / 16	—	4th
2004	0 / 16	0	***
2008	0 / 16	0	***
2011	0 / 16	0	***
2015	0 / 16	0	**
2016	0 / 16	0	**

* Within Initiative for Catalonia Greens–United and Alternative Left.
** Within En Comú Podem.
*** Within Catalan Agreement of Progress.

European Parliament

Spain
Date	Votes			Seats		Size
Date	#	%	±pp	#	±	Size
1999	1,221,565	5.8%	–	0 / 64	–	*
2004	643,136	4.1%	–1.7	0 / 54	0	*
2009	588,241	3.7%	–0.4	0 / 54	0	**
2014	1,575,308	10.0%	+6.3	0 / 54	0	***

Catalonia
Date	Votes			Size
Date	#	%	±pp	Size
1999	58,977	2.0%	–	6th
2004	151,871	7.2%	+5.2	****
2009	119,755	6.1%	–1.1	****
2014	259,152	10.3%	+4.2	****

* Within United Left.
** Within The Left.
*** Within Plural Left.
**** Within Initiative for Catalonia Greens–United and Alternative Left.

References

^ ^a ^b Nordsieck, Wolfram (2017). "Catalonia/Spain". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 25 January 2021.

External links

Esquerra Unida i Alternativa website (in Catalan)

[PEE-1] Nordsieck, Wolfram (2017). "Catalonia/Spain". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 25 January 2021.

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