United and Alternative Left

Esquerra Unida i Alternativa
Leader	Joan Josep Nuet (General Secretary)
Founded	1998
Headquarters	C/Doctor Aiguader,10 08003 Barcelona
Ideology	Communism, Marxism, Ecologism, Catalan independence, Republicanism
Political position	Left-wing
National affiliation	United Left
International affiliation	None
European affiliation	Party of the European Left
European Parliament group	GUE/NGL
Colours	Red
Congress of Deputies	1 / 350
Parliament of Catalonia	3 / 135
Website
http://www.euia.cat/
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Annual EUiA dinner party, 2007

United and Alternative Left (Catalan: Esquerra Unida i Alternativa, EUiA) is a political party from Catalonia, Spain. EUiA has 4000 members and 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, 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. Currently, 2 out of the 12 MPs at the regional Parliament of Catalonia adscribed to the IpC-EUiA group are members of this latter party.

See also

• List of political parties in Catalonia

External links

• Esquerra Unida i Alternativa web site (in Catalan)

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