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European Left Alliance for the People and the Planet
The European Left Alliance for the People and the Planet (ELA) is a European political party formed as a split from the Party of the European Left (PEL).[2][3] The ELA consists of seven national-level political parties connected to Now the People (NTP), itself formed in 2018. Their members tend to be newer, green-left leaning parties, and lament the dominance of traditional communist parties after the outcome of the 2024 European Parliament election and the exit of three parties from the PEL (Left Bloc from Portugal, Left Alliance from Finland and France Unbowed from France).[4][5] HistoryFoundationThe first officially confirmed member of the ELA was the Red-Green Alliance of Denmark.[4] Other founder members were Portugal's Left Bloc, La France Insoumise, the Swedish Left Party, Finland's Left Alliance, Poland's Left Together and Spain's Podemos.[6] In the European Parliament, MEPs of both PEL and the ELA belong to the parlamentary group of The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL.[7][8] Factions of Germany's The Left submitted a motion to express its loyalty towards PEL claiming that the "fragmentation of the European left at a time of the rise of the extreme right is a mistake."[9] On 27 September 2024, the Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations formally registered the ELA as a European political party.[10] MembersELA has 18 of 46 MEPs who compose the Left group in the European Parliament.[11]
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