The Alternative (Palestine)

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The Alternative is an electoral alliance of several socialist Palestinian groups:

• Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (al-jabhah al-dīmūqrātiyyah li-tahrīr filastīn)
• Palestinian People's Party (hizb al-sha`b al-filastīnī)
• Palestine Democratic Union (al-ittihād al-dīmūqrātī al-filastīnī)
• Independents

In the January 2006 PLC elections it received 2.92% of the popular vote and won two of the Council's 132 seats. The deputies elected were Qais Abd al-Karim and Bassam Al-Salhi.