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| Central-Eastern European Green Left Alliance | |
| Foundation: | 12 January 2024 |
| Abbreviation: | CEEGLA |
| Position: | Left-wing |
| Country: | the European Union |
| Parties Dab1: | European political party |
| Elections Dab1: | Elections to the European Parliament |
The Central Eastern European Green Left Alliance (CEEGLA) is an alliance of left-wing and green organizations and political parties in Central and Eastern Europe. It was officially launched on 12 January 2024 in Warsaw.[1]
Writing in the American left-wing periodical Jacobin, Polish journalist Roman Broszkowski wrote that leftists in Eastern Europe felt that they needed a "separate identity" from Western European leftists that "failed to realize" the potential consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and that the formation of CEEGLA in 2024 was meant to "concretize" this sentiment. At the launch event, Claudiu Crăciun of the Democracy and Solidarity Party stated to Broszkowski that "We realized that we live in different worlds and that the left-wing world — Western, South, and Northern — they have different views [on the Russian invasion of Ukraine], and we feel that we have a world here. It’s a European periphery that had independence and sovereignty as major stakes during the 19th and the 20th century, and we know a bit something about...Russian influence in every form."[2]
The organization has been described as a shared political home for pro-European, Anti-Putin left-wing political parties in Central and Eastern Europe, emphasizing regional cooperation. All of the parties in CEEGLA are from former members of the Eastern Bloc, and two are former Republics of the Soviet Union.[3]
The party's founding statement asserts that the organization sees itself as "a new generation that experienced disillusionment after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and subsequent capitalist transition. We have neither nostalgia for the previous regimes nor illusions about the nature of the failed neoliberal project being implemented in our region. We need to move forward, not backwards." The statement further asserts that the party supports greater European integration and wishes to support parties and candidates who share similar values "from the Baltic Sea to the Balkans."
The member parties of CEEGLA are:
| Country | Name | Leader | Registered as a party? | Seats in national legislatures | Government | ||
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| Jakub Kovařík Klára Školníková | [4] | ||||||
| Spark Movement Szikra Mozgalom | Collective leadership | [5] | |||||
| KArtu. Left Alliance KArtu. Kairiųjų aljansas | Jolanta Bielskienė | [6] | |||||
| Left Together Lewica Razem | Magdalena Biejat Adrian Zandberg | [7] | |||||
| Democracy and Solidarity Party Partidul Democrației și Solidarității | Ionuț Tudor | [8] | |||||
| Social Movement Соціальний рух (Sotsialnyi rukh) | Vitaly Dudin | [9] | |||||