Central-Eastern European Green Left Alliance

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Central-Eastern European Green Left Alliance
AbbreviationCEEGLA
Founded12 January 2024
Ideology Democratic socialism
Social democracy
Progressivism
Pro-Europeanism
Green politics
Anti-Putinism [1]
Political position Left-wing
Website
ceegla.org

The Central-Eastern European Green Left Alliance (CEEGLA) is a left-wing and green European political alliance gathering organisations and parties from Central and Eastern Europe. It was officially launched on 12 January 2024 in Warsaw. [2]

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Ideology

Writing in the American left-wing periodical Jacobin , Polish-American journalist Roman Broszkowski wrote that leftists in Eastern Europe felt that they needed a "separate identity" from Western European leftists that "failed to realize" the potential consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and that the formation of CEEGLA in 2024 was meant to "concretize" this sentiment. [1] At the launch event, Claudiu Crăciun of the Democracy and Solidarity Party stated to Broszkowski that "We realized that we live in different worlds and that the left-wing world — Western, South, and Northern — they have different views [on the Russian invasion of Ukraine], and we feel that we have a world here. It’s a European periphery that had independence and sovereignty as major stakes during the 19th and the 20th century, and we know a bit something about...Russian influence in every form." [1]

The organization has been described as a shared political home for pro-European, anti-Putin left-wing political parties in Central and Eastern Europe, emphasizing regional cooperation. [1] All of the parties in CEEGLA are from former members of the Eastern Bloc, and two are former republics of the Soviet Union. [3]

The party's founding statement asserts that the organization sees itself as "a new generation that experienced disillusionment after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and subsequent capitalist transition. We have neither nostalgia for the previous regimes nor illusions about the nature of the failed neoliberal project being implemented in our region. We need to move forward, not backwards." [3] The statement further asserts that the party supports greater European integration and wishes to support parties and candidates who share similar values "from the Baltic Sea to the Balkans." [3]

Members

The member parties of CEEGLA are:

CountryNameLeaderRegistered
as a party?
Seats in
national legislatures
Government
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czechia Future
Budoucnost
Jakub Kovařík
Klára Školníková
Check-green.svg [4]
0 / 200
Chamber of Deputies
0 / 81
Senate
Extraparliamentary
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary Spark Movement
Szikra Mozgalom
Collective leadershipCheck-green.svg [5]
1 / 199
Opposition
Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania KArtu. Left Alliance
KArtu. Kairiųjų aljansas
Jolanta BielskienėCheck-green.svg [6]
0 / 141
Extraparliamentary
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland Together
Razem
Adrian Zandberg
Aleksandra Owca
Check-green.svg [7]
5 / 460
Sejm
0 / 100
Senate
Opposition
Flag of Romania.svg  Romania Democracy and Solidarity Party
Partidul Democrației și Solidarității
Ionuț TudorCheck-green.svg [8]
0 / 200
Chamber of Deputies
0 / 136
Senate
Extraparliamentary
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine Social Movement
Соціальний рух (Sotsialnyi rukh)
Vitaly DudinDark Red x.svg [9]
0 / 450
Extraparliamentary

See also

Notes

    References

    1. 1 2 3 4 Broszkowski, Roman (13 March 2024). "No, Eastern Europe Isn't Doomed to Right-Wing Rule". jacobin.com. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
    2. "Powstał sojusz Zielonej Lewicy Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej". wnp.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2024-01-15.
    3. 1 2 3 "Central Eastern European Green Left Alliance formed (plus founding statement) | Links". links.org.au. 2024-01-16. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
    4. "Rejstřík politických stran a hnutí - Ministerstvo vnitra České republiky". aplikace.mvcr.cz. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
    5. https://vtr.valasztas.hu/onk2024/valasztopolgaroknak/jelolo-szervezetek/1199?tab=stats&filter=country
    6. "Vilniuje įkurta kairioji partija „KArtu"". lrt.lt (in Lithuanian). 2024-05-01. Retrieved 2024-09-13.
    7. "- Biuletyn Informacji Publicznej Sąd Okręgowy w Warszawie". bip.warszawa.so.gov.pl. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
    8. "Partide politice". tribunalulbucuresti.ro. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
    9. "Відомості щодо зареєстрованих у встановленому законом порядку політичних партій". minjust.gov.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-01-15.