The Left Lewica | |
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| Leaders | |
| Parliamentary leader | Anna Maria Żukowska |
| Founded | 19 July 2019 |
| Preceded by | United Left |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Centre-left to left-wing |
| National affiliation | Senate Pact 2023 (for 2023 Senate election) |
| European Parliament group | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (NL) |
| Members | New Left Polish Socialist Party Labour Union Social Democracy of Poland Freedom and Equality The City Is Ours Left Together (until 2024) |
| Sejm | 21 / 460 |
| Senate | 9 / 100 |
| European Parliament | 3 / 53 |
| Regional assemblies | 8 / 552 |
| City Presidents[1] | 11 / 107 |
| Website | |
| klub-lewica | |
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The Left (Polish: Lewica) is a political alliance in Poland. Initially founded to contest the 2019 parliamentary election, the alliance now consists of the New Left and other smaller parties.[2]
It also originally consisted of Democratic Left Alliance and Spring until its merging to create the New Left, including the Polish Socialist Party that left the coalition in 2021. It is also supported by several minor left-wing parties, including Your Movement, Yes for Łódź,[3] Urban Movement,[4] and the Polish Communist Party.[5]
The Left is a catch-all coalition of the Polish left,[6] and it is positioned on the centre-left[6][7] and left-wing.[8] It is mainly orientated towards the principles of social democracy,[9] and democratic socialism.[10] It also advocates progressive, social-liberal[11] and secular policies, including LGBT rights.[12][13] It is supportive of Poland's membership in the European Union.[13]
In the 2023 Polish parliamentary election, The Left coalition technically participated as the New Left party, whose list included representatives of Left Together, Labour Union, Polish Socialist Party, Freedom and Equality and Social Democracy of Poland.[14][15]
- ^ Rogojsz, Łukasz (23 April 2004). "Lewica broni się w miastach i liczy, że odroczy aneksję przez Tuska i KO". Interia Wydarzenia. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
Częstochowa, Włocławek, Ostrów Wielkopolski, Świdnica, Będzin - to lista miast prezydenckich, w których kandydaci i kandydatki Lewicy wygrali w drugiej turze wyborów samorządowych. Sukcesy odnieśli też politycy wspierani przez Lewicę - wygrali w Krakowie (Aleksander Miszalski), Wrocławiu (Jacek Sutryk) i Rzeszowie (Konrad Fijołek).
- ^ "What's Left in Poland? Can the 'three tenors' led by Adrian Zandberg, take on Poland's duopoly?".
- ^ "Gill-Piątek: W Sejmie będę głosem skrzywdzonych przez system". KrytykaPolityczna.pl (in Polish). 2019-10-11. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
- ^ "Anita Kucharska-Dziedzic". Lewica - Oficjalna strona jedynej postępowej siły w polskiej polityce! (in Polish). Retrieved 2019-10-15.
- ^ Pisze, Coschess (2019-10-10). "Jedyny komunistyczny kandydat w wyborach". KOMUNISTYCZNA PARTIA POLSKI (in Polish). Retrieved 2019-10-15.
- ^ a b "Socialists set to make comeback in Polish elections next month". The Independent. 2019-09-21. Archived from the original on 2022-06-18. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
- ^ "Poland election: Voters give verdict on four years of right-wing populists". The Independent. 13 October 2019. Archived from the original on 2022-06-18.
The latest voting intention poll by Kantar has PiS and its allies on 43 per cent, the centre-right liberal Civic Platform on 28 per cent, and the left-of-centre Lewica on 13 per cent.
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- "Nobel winner fears rising self-censorship in Poland". France 24. 2019-10-15. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
- "How do Poland's ruling populists remain so popular? Follow the money". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
- Warsaw, Derek Scally in. "Polish conservatives in final push to secure re-election". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
- "Poland's LGBTQ community in the political crosshairs". POLITICO. 2020-06-19. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
- ^ "Partia Razem. Nowa partia dla prekariuszy" (in Polish). Gazeta Wyborcza. Retrieved 2015-09-26.
- ^ "Poland's election - what you need to know". 12 October 2019.
- ^ "Neue Partei in Polen - "Frühling" macht der linken Mitte Hoffnung". Deutschlandfunk (in German). Retrieved 2021-12-29.
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- Syska, Michał. Strengthening Social Democracy in the Visegrad Countries (PDF). Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
- "Interview with Adrian Zandberg, Partia Razem". openDemocracy. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
- "Spring in Poland: Liberal View on Robert Biedron's New Political Party". 4Liberty.eu. 2019-02-15. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
- "Plan partii Biedronia w punktach". TVN24 (in Polish). 3 February 2019. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
- ^ a b "Polish conservatives in final push to secure re-election". The Irish Times. 11 October 2019.
Today's left-wing Lewica alliance has presented an anti-PiS, pro-EU programme espousing LGBT rights and loosening Poland's restrictive abortion laws.
- ^ "Nowa Lewica zatwierdziła listy wyborcze. Debata trwała godzinę". polsatnews.pl (in Polish). 2023-08-18. Retrieved 2023-09-10.
- ^ "Wybory do Sejmu i Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w 2023 r." wybory.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-09-10.