Laiki Enotita

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Λαϊκή Ενότητα
Laiki Enotita
Party leader Panagiotis Lafazanis
founding August 21, 2015
Place of foundation Athens
Alignment EU skepticism
Democratic socialism
Parliament seats
0/300
MEPs
0/21

The Laiki Enotita ( LAE ; Greek Λαϊκή Ενότητα , ΛA.Ε., German national unit ) is a split from the socialist Greek ruling party SYRIZA , which was founded on August 21, 2015 . It arose out of protest against their austerity policies and favors an exit from the euro zone and a return to the drachma .

When it was founded, it comprised 25 members of the Greek Parliament . The former Greek energy minister Panagiotis Lafazanis was named as chairman of the party and the parliamentary group . It also includes the two former Vice-Ministers Dimitris Stratoulis and Konstantinos Isychos , who were also dismissed by Tsipras during the cabinet reshuffle in July 2015. On August 31st, President Zoi Konstantopoulou announced at a press conference that she would run for Laiki Enotita in the new parliamentary elections on September 20th.

The Laiki Enotita was the third largest force in parliament until the general election in Greece in September 2015 . With 2.86%, it narrowly missed the threshold clause for entry into parliament. In the parliamentary election in July 2019, it only received 0.28%.

The party name is inspired by the Unidad Popular , the Chilean electoral alliance led by Salvador Allende .

Groups of origin

Laiki Enotita emerged from several political groups and factions. Most of them were previously in Syriza, another from Antarsya . These groups are:

  • Left platform (ex-member of Syriza)
  • Communist tendency (ex-member of Syriza)
  • Xekinima (until 2011 in Syriza)
  • Plan B
  • Intervention (split from Kommounistiki Organosi Elladas )
  • Left Recomposition (ARAN) (ex-member of Antarsya)
  • Left anti-capitalist group (ARAS) (ex-member of Antarsya)
  • Left radical movement (ex-member of Syriza and the Syriza youth organization)
  • Kinima Den Plirono (ex-member of Syriza)
  • Active citizens
  • Dimokratiko Kinoniko Kinima (ex-member of Syriza)
  • New fighters - Network of Left Socialists (ex-member of Syriza)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/greece-politics.140j
  2. ↑ Greece crisis: Syriza rebels form new party (English) , BBC News . August 21, 2015. Retrieved September 4, 2015. 
  3. ↑ «Λαϊκή Ενότητα» το κόμμα Λαφαζάνη με 25 βουλευτές (Greek) , TVXS. August 21, 2015. Retrieved September 4, 2015. 
  4. ↑ Syriza-Linke split off , Zeit Online . August 21, 2015. Retrieved September 4, 2015. 
  5. ↑ The President of the Greek Parliament leaves Syriza , FAZ . August 31, 2015. Accessed September 4, 2015. 
  6. ↑ Syriza rebel Konstantopoulou: Greek parliamentary president overflows with the new Left Party , Spiegel Online . August 31, 2015. Accessed September 4, 2015. 
  7. ↑ Left Syriza spin-offs found a new party , Spiegel Online . August 21, 2015. Retrieved September 4, 2015. 
  8. ↑ Official election result of the Greek Ministry of the Interior (Greek / English)
  9. ↑ LAIKI ENOTITA | National elections - July 2019. Retrieved June 13, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Greece rebels form new party ahead of snap polls (English) , Jamaica Observer. August 21, 2015. Archived from the original on August 22, 2015 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved September 4, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jamaicaobserver.com