Left Alliance
Sign in to saveAlso known as Vasemmistoliitto, Vänsterförbundet, Vasemmistoliitto r.p., Vänsterförbundet r.p
registered political party in Finland
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Within Vinony's link graph, Left Alliance is referenced by 692 other articles, and connects out to The Left in the European Parliament - GUE/NGL, left-wing and Parliament of Finland.
It sits within the topics 1990 establishments in Finland, Democratic socialist parties in Europe and Government and politics articles needing translation from Finnish Wikipedia.
Its subject is documented across 31 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Abbreviation
- Finnish : Vas , Swedish : VF
- Chairperson
- Minja Koskela
- Secretary
- Anna Mäkipää [ fi ]
- Parliamentary group leader
- Aino-Kaisa Pekonen
- First deputy chair
- Laura Meriluoto
- Chair of the party council
- Mitja Tapio [ fi ]
- Founder
- Claes Andersson
- Founded
- 29 April 1990 ( 1990-04-29 )
- Merger of
- SKDL SKP Democratic Alternative Socialist Workers' Party
- Headquarters
- Lintulahdenkatu 10, 00500 Helsinki
- Newspaper
- Kansan Uutiset
- Think tank
- Vasemmistofoorumi [ fi ]
- Student wing
- Vasemmisto-opiskelijat [ fi ]
- Youth wing
- Left Youth (unofficially)
- Women s wing
- Vasemmistonaiset [ fi ]
- Children s wing
- Pinskut [ fi ]
- Membership 2020
- 11,500
- Ideology
- Democratic socialism Eco-socialism
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- political party
- Official name
- Vänsterförbundet r.p.
- Country
- Finland
- Headquarters
- Helsinki
- Chairperson
- Minja Koskela
- Follows
- Communist Party of Finland
- Official website
- www.vasemmisto.fi
- Political ideology
- eco-socialism
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- member category
- Category:Left Alliance (Finland) politicians
- topic's main category
- Category:Left Alliance (Finland)
- inception
- 1990-04-00
- member count
- 10500
- native label
- Vasemmistoliitto
- short name
- VF
- sRGB color hex triplet
- F00A64
- political alignment
- radical left
- house publication
- Kansan Uutiset
- Commons category
- Left Alliance (Finland)
- number of seats in assembly
- 3
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Encyclopedic overview
The Left Alliance is a left-wing political party in Finland.
The Left Alliance was founded in 1990 as the chief successor of the left-wing Finnish People's Democratic League (SKDL). Although not as electorally successful as the SKDL, it has achieved some success, typically receiving around eight to ten percent of the vote in parliamentary elections. It has participated in five cabinets, most recently in the Marin Cabinet from 2019 to 2023. It is socialist, specifically democratically socialist, and it supports the principles of eco-socialism.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Left Alliance” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.