Alternative Left | |
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| German name | Alternative Linke (AL) |
| French name | La Gauche (LG) |
| Italian name | La Sinistra |
| Romansh name | L'Alternativa sanestra |
| Founded | 29 May 2010 |
| Headquarters | 2722 Les Reussilles |
| Membership (2011) | 2,000[1] |
| Ideology | Democratic socialism Environmentalism Anti-capitalism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| National Council | 0 / 200
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| Council of States | 0 / 46
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| Cantonal legislatures | 10 / 2,609
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| Website | |
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The Alternative Left (German: Alternative Linke; Romansh: L'Alternativa sanestra) or The Left (French: La Gauche; Italian: La Sinistra), is a political party of the left in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland that existed at the national level from 2010 to 2018. This party sought to unite the political forces and movements farther to the left on Switzerland's political spectrum than the centre-left Social Democratic Party and the Green Party.
Their sole current National Council of Switzerland member was until 2011 Josef Zisyadis, who was elected in 2007 for the Swiss Labour Party. He was still a member of the SLP, but in official publications he was only a member of the Alternative Left.
- ^ Der Bund kurz erklärt (in German). Swiss Confederation. 2011. p. 21. Archived from the original on 24 January 2012.