Group of the European United Left (1989-1993)

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Group of the European United Left (1989-1993)
Official abbreviation GUE
Members
28/518
Group leader ItalyItaly Luigi Alberto Colajanni
founding 1989
predecessor Communist and Allies Group
resolution 1993
successor Confederal Group of the European Unitarian Left (1994)
Alignment Eurocommunism

The Group of the European United Left (VEL) was a Eurocommunist group in the European Parliament from 1989 to 1993.

history

After the European elections in 1989 , the previous group of communists and allies split into a group that was more faithful to Moscow, the coalition of the left , and the euro-communist United European Left (VEL). A large part of the 28 MPs at the beginning belonged to the Italian PCI .

In 1991 the PCI dissolved, and a large number of MEPs joined the successor party Partito Democratico della Sinistra (PDS; Party of the Democratic Left). Two MPs joined the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (PRC; Party of Communist Re-establishment). On January 12, 1993, the 20 PDS members of the parliamentary group of the Social Democratic Party of Europe joined. The VEL fell below the minimum number of members and was dissolved.

The remaining eight MPs remained non-attached . After the European elections in 1994 , the left-wing MEPs came together in the Confederal Group of the European Unitarian Left .

Members

country Political party number MPs
ItalyItaly Italy Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI) / Partito democratico della sinistra (PDS) 22nd Roberto Speciale , Andrea Raggio , Luigi Alberto Colajanni , Roberto Barzanti , Anna Catasta , Rinaldo Bontempi , Biagio De Giovanni , Cesare De Piccoli , Adriana Ceci , Giorgio Napolitano (until June 10, 1992), Gaetano Cingari (from June 15, 1992), Giacomo Porrazzini , Tullio Regge , Giorgio Rossetti , Giulio Fantuzzi , Achille Occhetto , Maurice Duverger , Renzo Imbeni , Renzo Trivelli , Luciano Vecchi , Pasqualina Napoletano (all changes to the PES Group), Dacia Valent , Luciana Castellina (both joined the PRC in 1991 and remained non-attached after the faction ended)
DenmarkDenmark Denmark Socialistisk Folkeparti (SF) 1/- John Iversen (until June 30, 1992, moved to the Greens parliamentary group)
GreeceGreece Greece Synaspismos (SYN) 1 Mihail Papayannakis
IrelandIreland Ireland Workers' Party / Democratic Left -/1 Proinsias De Rossa (from December 19, 1991, from KdL, until February 7, 1992), Des Geraghty (from February 18, 1992)
SpainSpain Spain Izquierda Unida (IU) 4th Alonso José Puerta , Antoni Gutierrez Diaz , Fernando Pérez Royo (until December 29, 1992, resigned), Teresa Domingo Segarra

Board

Chairman:

  • Luigi Alberto Colajanni

Vice Chairman:

  • Antoni Gutierrez Diaz

Treasurer:

  • John Iversen (until June 30, 1992)

Member of the board:

  • Mihail Papayannakis
  • Luciana Castellina (until January 20, 1992)
  • Des Geraghty (from March 25, 1992)
  • Roberto Speciale (until January 20, 1992)
  • Andrea Raggio (until January 20, 1992)
  • Proinsias De Rossa (January 21, 1992 to February 7, 1992)