Left Alliance (Finland)
| Vasemmistoliitto Vänsterförbundet left alliance |
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| Party leader | Li Andersson |
| Secretary General | Joonas Leppänen |
| vice-chairman | Hanna Sarkkinen , Juho Kautto and Veronika Honkasalo |
| founding | 1990 |
| Headquarters | Four-lined case 5, 2. krs. 00530 Helsinki |
| Youth organization | Left youth |
| newspaper | Kansan Uutiset |
| Alignment |
Democratic socialism , eco-socialism |
| Colours) | Red Green |
| Parliament seats |
16/200 |
| Number of members | 9,100 (2011) |
| MEPs |
1/14 |
| European party |
Nordic Green-Left Alliance (NGLA) European Left (EL) |
| EP Group | Confederal Group of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left (GUE / NGL) |
| Website | www.vasemmistoliitto.fi |
Vasemmistoliitto (German left alliance , abbr. Vas .; Swedish. Vänsterförbundet , abbr. Vf ) is a Finnish party that emerged in 1990 essentially from the Democratic Union of the Finnish People , which united communists and left-wing socialists.
history
The left-wing alliance was founded in Helsinki in 1990 and grew out of the Democratic Union of the Finnish People ( Suomen kansan demokraattinen liitto , SKDL), the Communist Party of Finland ( Suomen communistinen puolue , SKP) and the Democratic Alliance of Finnish Women ( Suomen naisten demokraattinen liitto , SNDL ). There were also members of the Democratic Alternative ( Demokraattinen vaihtoehto , DeVa), which split off from the SKP / SKDL in the mid-1980s. This gave the left alliance a heterogeneous composition. Claes Andersson became the first party leader. Former members of the Communist Party left the left-wing alliance in the early 1990s and formed a new Communist Party of Finland .
The Left Alliance joined in 1995 the "Rainbow Coalition" (from the Social Democrats, the conservative National Coalition Party , the Swedish People's Party , the Greens Federation and the Left Alliance) under Paavo Lipponen at and remained even after the elections of 1999 to 2003, the government. The left alliance had been in opposition since 2003 . After the elections in April 2011, with a result of 8.1%, the party was again in government responsibility from June 2011 as part of a coalition ( Katainen cabinet ). However, two of the 14 MPs left the parliamentary group in 2011 and have since formed their own opposition group in parliament. After differences due to government savings plans for child benefit and social compensation payments, the left-wing alliance left the coalition on March 25, 2014. The two ministers of the party Paavo Arhinmäki and Merja Kyllönen submitted their resignation.
The left alliance publishes Kansan Uutiset (Finnish) and Ny Tid (Swedish) as the party newspaper.
Election results
Parliamentary elections
| Election results in parliamentary elections | |||||||||||||||
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| 10.08%
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11.16%
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10.88%
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9.93%
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8.82%
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8.13%
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7.13%
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8.16%
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| 1991 | 1995 | 1999 | 2003 | 2007 | 2011 | 2015 | 2019 | ||||||||
| year | Mandates | be right | % |
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| 1991 | 19th | 274,639 | 10.08% |
| 1995 | 22nd | 310,340 | 11.16% |
| 1999 | 20th | 291,675 | 10.88% |
| 2003 | 19th | 277.152 | 9.93% |
| 2007 | 17th | 244.296 | 8.82% |
| 2011 | 14th | 239.039 | 8.13% |
| 2015 | 12 | 211,615 | 7.13% |
| 2019 | 16 | 251.254 | 8.16% |
Local elections
| year | Mandates | be right | % |
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| 1992 | 1319 | 310.757 | 11.67% |
| 1996 | 1128 | 246,597 | 10.37% |
| 2000 | 1027 | 219,671 | 9.88% |
| 2004 | 987 | 228.358 | 9.56% |
| 2008 | 833 | 223,673 | 8.77% |
| 2012 | 640 | 199,615 | 8.00% |
| 2017 | 658 | 226,626 | 8.80% |
European elections
| year | Mandates | be right | % |
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| 1996 | 2 | 236,490 | 10.51% |
| 1999 | 1 | 112,757 | 9.08% |
| 2004 | 1 | 151.291 | 9.13% |
| 2009 | 0 | 98,690 | 5.93% |
| 2014 | 1 | 160,818 | 9.3% |
| 2019 | 1 | 125,749 | 6.9% |
Presidential election
In the 2000 and 2006 elections, the left-wing alliance decided not to have its own candidate and instead supported the social democrat Tarja Halonen , who was elected both times.
| year | candidate | be right | percent | placement |
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| 1994 | Claes Andersson | 122,820 | 3.8% | 6th |
| 2012 | Paavo Arhinmäki | 167.359 | 5.5% | 6th |
| 2018 | Merja Kyllönen | 89,977 | 3.0% | 7th |
Leadership politician
Party leader:
- Claes Andersson (1990-1998)
- Suvi-Anne Siimes (1998-2006)
- Martti Korhonen (2006-2009)
- Paavo Arhinmäki (2009-2016)
- Li Andersson (since 2016)
Deputy party chairman:
- Salme Kandolin (1990–?)
- Kari Uotila (1990-1993)
- Katja Syvärinen (1992–1995)
- Martti Korhonen (1995–1998)
- Suvi-Anne Siimes (1995–1998)
- Esko Seppänen (1998-2001)
- Jorma Vokkolainen (1998-2001)
- Matti Huutola (2001-2004)
- Minna Sirnö (2001-2007)
- Risto Kalliorinne (2004-2007)
- Paavo Arhinmäki (2007-2009)
- Aino-Kaisa Pekonen (2007-2016)
- Risto Kalliorinne (2009-2013)
- Sari Moisanen (2013-2016)
- Kalle Hyötynen (2013-2016)
- Hanna Sarkkinen (2016-2019)
- Juho Kautto (2016-2019)
- Veronika Honkasalo (2016–2019)
- Jussi Saramo (since 2019)
- Minna Minkkinen (since 2019)
- Jouni Jussinniemi (since 2019)
General Secretaries:
- Matti Viialainen (1990–1995)
- Ralf Sund (1995-2001)
- Aulis Ruuth (2001-2007)
- Sirpa Puhakka (2007-2013)
- Marko Varajärvi (2013-2016)
- Joonas Leppänen (2016-2019)
- Mikko Koikkalainen (since 2019)
More politicians
- Esko-Juhani Tennilä (* 1947), from 1990 to 2011 for the left-wing alliance in parliament, previously since 1975 for the SKDL, DeVa and SKPy
- Reino Laine (* 1946), musician, Member of Parliament from 1996 to 1999
Web links
- Website of the Vasemmistoliitto (Finnish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ kauppalehti.fi: Perussuomalaisilla hurja tahti: ”Jäseniä tulee ovista ja ikkunoista” (Finnish, March 13, 2011, accessed July 24, 2011)
- ^ Left party leaves Finnish government , Österreichischer Rundfunk , March 25, 2014
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