United Left Action Alliance
The United Left Action Alliance (AVL) was a list association made up of two left-wing groups that was approved in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) for the Volkskammer election on March 18, 1990 .
On the one hand, it comprised the United Left, founded on October 2, 1989 by left-wing representatives of the political opposition and critical members of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), and, on the other hand, the Marxist party Die Nelken, which emerged on January 13, 1990 . The action alliance thus primarily represented the left wing of the GDR civil rights movement . The most prominent candidate was the songwriter Gerhard Gundermann, who was popular in the GDR .
In the Volkskammer election in March 1990, the action alliance received 20,340 votes and thus 0.18 percent. Since there was no threshold clause in the electoral law at the time , this share of the vote corresponded to a seat in the People's Chamber . With regard to the election results, the United Left was the smallest election proposal represented in the People's Chamber. The GDR civil rights activist Thomas Klein , as a non-attached MP, assumed the AVL's only mandate.
literature
- Berndt Musiolek, Jürgen Eichler, Carola Wuttke: Parties and political movements in the last year of the GDR (October 1989 to April 1990). BasisDruck Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-86-163004-4 , pp. 54 and 63
- Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan: The parties and organizations of the GDR: A manual. Dietz, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-32-001988-0 , p. 246
- The GDR as a socialist alternative. United Left initiative documents. In: The Action. Journal for politics, literature, art. Born in 1990. United Left Initiative, pp. 933–996
- Collected pamphlets GDR. Original documents of the GDR opposition. Three notebooks. Published by the AStA of the Technical University of Berlin, Berlin 1989/1990