Left Alliance (Finland)
The Left Alliance (Finnish: Vasemmistoliitto, Swedish: Vänsterförbundet) is a left-wing political party in Finland. It was founded on the basis of the Finnish People's Democratic League and the Communist Party of Finland in 1990.
In parliamentary elections, Left Alliance share of the vote has been close to ten percent. The Left Alliance had three portfolios in the two cabinets of Paavo Lipponen (1995-2003), and has two in the current cabinet of Jyrki Katainen (2011-). It is a member of the Nordic Green Left Alliance. The party currently has 12 MPs in the Finnish Eduskunta: it won 14 seats in the latest election, but two MPs were expelled from the parliamentary group after repeatedly breaking from the official party line. The party lost its only remaining MEP in the 2009 election.
The party organ is the weekly Kansan Uutiset.
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