Bloco de Esquerda

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Bloco de Esquerda
left block
Logo of the BE
Catarina Martins, SomosBibliotecas (cropped2) .png
Party leader Catarina Martins
founding March 24, 1999
Headquarters Lisbon
newspaper Esquerda
Alignment Democratic socialism
Eco-socialism
Feminism
Colours) red
Parliament seats
19/230
( Assembleia , 2019 )
MEPs
2/21
European party European Left (EL)
EP Group European United Left / Nordic Green Left (GUE-NGL)
Website www.bloco.org
Election campaign by Bloco de Esquerda for the referendum on the legalization of abortion in 2007

The Left Bloc (BE) [ 'blɔku də' (ɨ) ʃkerdɐ ] listen ? / i , ( Portuguese : left bloc ) is a Portuguese party alliance in the form of a political party . Audio file / audio sample

history

The BE was formed from four organizations for the 1999 parliamentary elections : the Marxist-Leninist União Democrática Popular (UDP), the Trotskyist Party Partido Socialista Revolucionário (PSR), the socialist group Política XXI and the also Trotskyist FER-Ruptura .

He is critical of globalization and the European Union . The group works for a fairer society and is close to democratic socialism . The Bloco de Esquerda describes itself as both a party ( o Partido ) and a movement ( o Movimento ). Legally, the Bloco de Esquerda is a party, but parts of the four organizations that decided to found the left bloc still exist .

Since it was founded in 1999, many previously independent leftists have joined the BE. The party has been represented in the European Parliament since the 2004 European elections ; after the Portuguese parliamentary elections in 2005, it had eight members in the Assembleia da República after gaining almost seven percent of the vote or around 360,000 votes. In the last parliamentary elections in September 2009, the Bloco de Esquerda doubled its number of seats to 16, with a gain of more than 4,500 votes (+ 3.47%). The left bloc has traditionally achieved high election results in some districts of Lisbon , and in the districts of Faro and Setúbal .

In the European elections in May 2019, the Bloco de Esquerda became the third largest political force in Portugal with more than 325 thousand votes. Marisa Isabel dos Santos Matias and José Guilherme Figueiredo Nobre de Gusmão were elected to the European Parliament as members of the BE.

At the fourth party congress of the BE, the more than 600 delegates voted with a large majority for full membership in the European Left , which until then had had observer status. The BE would like to take a more active role in the development of an alternative European left party. The European Anti-Capitalist Left (EAL) also belongs to the BE.

Election results

Web links

Commons : Bloco de Esquerda  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member of the Bloco de Esquerda elected in 2019
  2. ^ Official election result 1999 of the CNE (port.)
  3. ^ Official election result 1999 of the CNE (port.)
  4. ^ Official election result 2002 of the CNE (port.)
  5. ^ Official election result 2004 of the CNE (port.)
  6. ^ Official election result 2005 of the CNE (port.)
  7. ^ Official election result 2006 of the CNE (port.)
  8. ↑ Official election result 2009 (port.)
  9. ^ Official election result 2011 of the CNE (port.)
  10. ↑ Official election results 2014 (port.)
  11. ↑ Official election results 2015 (port.)
  12. ↑ Official election results 2019 (port.)