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Alexis Tsipras and Podemos founder Pablo Iglesias at a campaign rally for Syriza in Athens, 22 January 2015.
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The European Left Alliance: New Project, Old Problems?

Vladimir Bortun
Europe: ruin or renewal
One could be forgiven for having missed the creation of the European Left Alliance (ELA) late last year. Comprised of six parties (La France Insoumise, Podemos, the Portuguese Left Bloc, the Finnish Left Alliance, the Swedish Left Party, and the Danish Green-Left Alliance), ELA will now be the second Europarty of the radical Left aside from the existing European Left Party (EL) founded in 2004. The creation of a separate party with a nearly identical name was justified by one of its leading figures, Manon Aubry, as needing “a party ...
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The Minister of Labor Yolanda Diaz and former MEP Manu Pineda attend the EU campaign of the Sumar coalition, May 23, 2024, Madrid.
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Yolanda Díaz steps down from leadership of Sumar and Izquierda Unida fails to enter the European Parliament

María del Vigo
AllgemeinEurope: ruin or renewal
The EU elections in Spain saw a narrow victory for the centrist People's Party, which beat the Socialist Party by two seats. The clear victory goes to the political tradition of the bipartitism, with the two major parties winning a total of 64.37% of the vote. The far-right party VOX received 9.62%, comparable to its Portuguese counterpart CHEGA, which achieved 9.79%, but a far cry from the 15.60% of the Alternative for Germany, the 28.59% of the Fratelli d'Italia and the 31.36% of the Rassemblement National.
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European Election 2024: Assembly of the Spanish left-wing political party Sumar Estrella Galan, Sumar candidate for the European elections, seen speaking during
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Low Expectations for Spain’s Divided Left

María del Vigo
Europe: ruin or renewalElections and parties
In the Spanish State, all indicators seem to point in the same direction: we are coming to the end of a cycle, in which what has been called the “Space for Change” is in retreat and even disappearing in many regions. Significant internal disagreements within the Left, right-wing and far-right parties committed to propagating fake news and stoking tensions, and a social democracy that has been neglected for years have all come together to create a society divided by media and discursive polarization, and the disaffection of the majority of citizens.
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