United and Alternative Left

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United and Alternative Left Esquerra Unida i Alternativa
General Secretary	Joan Josep Nuet
Founded	1998 (1998)
Merger of	Communists of Catalonia Living Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia Revolutionary Workers' Party
Headquarters	C/Doctor Aiguader,10 08003 Barcelona
Ideology	Socialism[1] Communism[1] Marxism Ecologism Catalan self-determination Republicanism
Political position	Far-left
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
	#	%	±pp	#	±
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 # % ±pp # ± 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 # ± 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 # % ±pp # ± 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 # % ±pp 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.

See also[]

• List of political parties in Catalonia

References[]

External links[]

• Esquerra Unida i Alternativa website (in Catalan)