Radical Left Front

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Radical Left Front (in Greek: Μέτωπο Ριζοσπαστικής Αριστερά -Metopo Rizospastikis Aristeras or ME.R.A.) is a coalition of radical left political parties in Greece.

ME.R.A. was founded in 1999 by New Left Current (N.A.R.), the Maoist Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece (E.K.K.E.), the Trotskyist Workers Revolutionnary Party (E.E.K.), Youth of Communist Liberation (N.K.A.), Independent Communist Organization of Serres (A.K.O.S.) and independent left active. In 2004, Alternative Ecologists affiliated itself to the ME.R.A. organization.

In its first electoral appereance in the 1999 euroelections MERA gathered 10,884 votes (0,17%).

In the legislative elections of 2000, ME.R.A. gathered 8,132 votes and in 2004 gathered 11,261 votes.

[edit] See also

• Politics of Greece
• List of political parties in Greece
• List of Communist Parties

[edit] External links

• Greek election results, via the Greek Ministry of Internal Affairs
• (Greek) Radical Left Front
• (Greek) Workers Revolutionary Party home page
• (Greek) Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece home page
• (Greek) Youth of Communist Liberation home page