United and Alternative Left

United and Alternative Left Esquerra Unida i Alternativa
General Secretary	Joan Josep Nuet
Founded	1998 (1998)
Merger of	Communists of Catalonia Living Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia Revolutionary Workers' Party
Headquarters	C/Doctor Aiguader,10 08003 Barcelona
Ideology	Communism Marxism Ecologism Catalan self-determination Republicanism
Political position	Left-wing
National affiliation	Catalonia Yes We Can En Comú Podem United Left Plural Left Unidos Podemos
European affiliation	Party of the European Left European Anti-Capitalist Left
International affiliation	None
European Parliament group	GUE/NGL
Colours	Red
Parliament of Catalonia	1 / 135 Inside Catalonia Yes We Can
Congress of Deputies	2 / 47 Inside En Comú Podem
Website
www.euia.cat
Politics of Catalonia Political parties Elections

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).

Annual EUiA dinner party, 2007

It was formed in 1998 as a schism from Iniciativa per Catalunya (IpC). It comprises an alliance of Party of the Communists of Catalonia, 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 website (in Catalan)