Communist and Allies Group

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Communists and Allies
European Parliament group
NameCommunists and Allies
English abbr.COM [1]
French abbr.n/a
Formal nameCommunist and Allies Group [2] [3]
Ideology Communism
From16 October 1973 [4]
To25 July 1989 [4]
Succeeded by Left Unity,
Group for the European United Left
Chaired by Giorgio Amendola, [3]
Guido Fanti, [5]
Gianni Cervetti [6]
MEP(s) 44 (17 July 1979)
41 (23 July 1984)

The Communist and Allies Group was a communist political group with seats in the European Parliament between 1973 and 1989.

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History

The "Communist and Allies Group" was the first communist group in the European Parliament, [2] founded on 16 October 1973. [4]

The Communist and Allies Group included MEPs from the Communist parties of France and Italy. It stayed together until 25 July 1989 [4] when it split into two groups, "Left Unity" [2] (LU) with 14 [2] members and the "Group for the European United Left" [7] (EUL) with 28 [2] members.

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