Alliance de Gauche
The Alliance de Gauche (AdG, German: Linksallianz ) is an electoral alliance in French-speaking Switzerland .
It is a permanent electoral alliance between the Labor Party (Parti du Travail, communist), the SolidaritéS party (not communist, politically more left-wing than the social democrats ) and independent (partly ex-social democratic) politicians. The Alliance de Gauche usually appears in elections and as a parliamentary group in cantonal and municipal parliaments , but it is organized in three separate parties or groups.
The Alliance de Gauche first appeared in Geneva in 1993 at the cantonal level and is still mainly known in Geneva today. In the cantonal elections of 2001, it had received 13% of the vote and was the third largest parliamentary group. In the 2005 elections, the Labor Party and the Independent, on the one hand, and SolidaritéS, on the other, appeared separately. Taken together, the two lists have gained votes slightly, but each of them has narrowly missed the required quorum of 7 percent, so that the Alliance de Gauche is not represented in the cantonal parliament in the current legislature.
There are alliances with a similar political orientation in other cantons: “Popecosol” in the canton of Neuchâtel , “Gauche en mouvement” in the canton of Vaud . The “Alliance de Gauche” in Sion (capital of the canton of Valais ), on the other hand, is a coalition of Social Democrats and Greens. An overarching left-wing alternative alliance at federal level is the Alternative Left , which, among other things, represents the network between Solidarites, Gauche en Movement and POP in the canton of Vaud and also has representatives in the rest of French-speaking Switzerland.