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	Party of the Communists of Catalonia Living Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia Revolutionary Workers' Party
Headquarters	C/Doctor Aiguader,10 08003 Barcelona
Ideology	Socialism^[1] Communism^[1] Catalan self-determination Republicanism
Political position	Far-left
National affiliation	United Left (1998–2019)
Regional affiliation	ICV–EUiA (2003–2015) Catalunya Sí que es Pot (2015–2017) En Comú Podem (2015–2019)^[a] Catalunya en Comú (2017–2019) Republican Left of Catalonia (since 2023)
European affiliation	Party of the European Left European Anti-Capitalist Left
Colours	Crimson
Parliament of Catalonia	0 / 135
Congress of Deputies	0 / 47 (Republican Left of Catalonia)
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 until 2019 was the Catalan correspondent of the Spain-wide United Left (IU).

It was formed in 1998 as a schism from Initiative for Catalonia Greens (ICV). 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. In 2015, the party joined the electoral coalition En Comú Podem. In 2017, it was one of the founding parties of Catalunya en Comú, being expelled from the organization two years later as it was no longer the Catalan correspondent of United Left.

Composition

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Current members

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Party		Notes
	Communists of Catalonia (Comunistes.Cat)	Founded in November 2014.

Former members

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Party		Notes
	Party of the Communists of Catalonia (PCC)	Dissolved in November 2014.
	Living Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC viu)	Left in June 2019 for United Left Catalonia.
	The Dawn. Marxist Organization OM (L'Aurora (om))	Left in June 2024.

Electoral performance

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Parliament of Catalonia

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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

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Catalonia

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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

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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.

Notes

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^ Since 2017 integrated within Catalunya en Comú

References

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

External links

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Official website (in Catalan)

v t e Political parties in Catalonia
Represented in the Parliament of Catalonia (135)	Socialists' Party of Catalonia (42) includes United to Advance (1) Together for Catalonia (35) Republican Left of Catalonia (20) People's Party of Catalonia (15) Vox (11) Comuns Sumar Comuns (5) Sumar (1) Popular Unity Candidacy (4) Endavant Poble Lliure Catalan Alliance* (2)
Represented in the Spanish Congress of Deputies (48 out of 350)	Socialists' Party of Catalonia (19) Sumar - En Comú Podem (7) Republican Left of Catalonia (7) Together for Catalonia (7) People's Party of Catalonia (6) Vox (2)
Represented in the Spanish Senate (24 out of 266)	Socialists' Party of Catalonia (15) Republican Left of Catalonia (6) Together for Catalonia (3)
(*) With an asterisk, candidates who do not have their own parliamentary group. Politics of Catalonia List of political parties in Spain

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Congress of Deputies (350)	People's Party (137) Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (120) Vox (33) Sumar (27) Sumar (11) Comuns (6) United Left (5) Coalició Compromís (2) Más Madrid (1) Chunta Aragonesista (1) Més per Mallorca (1) Republican Left of Catalonia (7) Together for Catalonia (7) EH Bildu (6) Basque Nationalist Party (5) Podemos (4) Navarrese People's Union (1) Canarian Coalition (1) Galician Nationalist Bloc (1) Independent (José Luis Ábalos, 1)
Senate (266)	People's Party (144) Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (91) Republican Left of Catalonia (6) EH Bildu (5) Basque Nationalist Party (5) Together for Catalonia (3) Vox (3) Galician Nationalist Bloc (1) Independent Herrenian Group (1) Gomera Socialist Group (1) Canarian Coalition (1) Coalició Compromís (1) Eivissa i Formentera al Senat (1) Geroa Bai (1) Más Madrid (1) Navarrese People's Union (1)
Other parties in regional parliaments	Andalusia Adelante Andalucía Aragón Teruel Existe Aragonese Party Asturias Asturias Forum Balearic Islands Més per Menorca Sa Unió de Formentera Canary Islands New Canaries Cantabria Regionalist Party of Cantabria Castile and León Soria ¡Ya! Leonese People's Union For Ávila Catalonia Popular Unity Candidacy Catalan Alliance Galicia Ourensan Democracy Ceuta Movement for Dignity and Citizenship Ceuta Ya! Melilla Coalición por Melilla Somos Melilla
European Parliament (61 of 720)	People's Party (22) Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (20) Vox (6) Ahora Repúblicas (3) Republican Left of Catalonia (1) EH Bildu (1) Galician Nationalist Bloc (1) Sumar (3) Sumar (1) Comuns (1) Coalició Compromís (1) Se Acabó La Fiesta (3) Podemos (2) Together and Free for Europe (1) Coalition for a Solidary Europe (1) Basque Nationalist Party (1)
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Party of the European Left

European Parliament group: The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL

Parties

Member parties	KPÖ Spravedlivyj Mir BL/БЛ RF Levice Vasakliit SKP Vas. PCF GRS Die Linke Syriza European Left PRC Déi Lénk PCRM PCP PSR SU Levica IU PCE EUiA PdA/PST-POP/PSL SOL Left Unity
Observer parties	MD AKEL/ΑΚΕΛ KSČM SI YKP BKP KSS Sortu
Partner parties	Der Wandel Ensemble! République et socialisme Marxist Left Táncsics Democratic Left Scotland
Former members	KP PCB Enhedslisten SYN/ΣΥΝ Munkáspárt RCS PG FI B.E.