United and Alternative Left

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Esquerra Unida i Alternativa
 
Leader Jordi Miralles
(General Secretary)
 
Founded 1998
Headquarters C/Doctor Aiguader,10
08003 Barcelona
 
Ideology Left,
Eurocommunism, Communism,
Socialism, Marxism
Catalanism, Ecologism (minority)
International affiliation Party of the European Left
European Parliament Group European United Left - Nordic Green Left
 
Website
www.euia.cat


United and Alternative Left (Catalan: Esquerra Unida i Alternativa, EUiA) is a political party from Catalonia, Spain. It is the Catalan correspondent of the Spain-wide United Left (Izquierda Unida).

It was formed in 1998 as a schism from Iniciativa per Catalunya (IpC). It comprises an alliance of Party of the Catalonian Communists, PSUC viu, 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, 3 out of the 12 MPs at the regional Parliament of Catalonia adscribed to the IpC-EUiA group are members of this latter party.

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Annual EUiA dinner party, 2007
Annual EUiA dinner party, 2007