Nordic Green Left Alliance
Swedish: Nordisk grön vänster
Finnish: Pohjoismaiden vihreän vasemmiston liitto
Danish: Nordisk Grønne Venstre Alliance
Norwegian: Nordisk Grønt Venstre Allianse
Icelandic: Norræna vinstri-græna bandalagið
Abbreviation
  • NGLA (English)
  • NGV (Swedish)
General SecretaryFinland Mia Haglund
Founded1 February 2004 (2004-02-01)
Ideology
Political position
European affiliationPEL, NTP!, EGP
European Parliament groupThe Left, Greens-EFA
Colours  Green
  Crimson
Nordic Council
11 / 87
Website
nordicgreenleft.com

The Nordic Green Left Alliance (Swedish: Nordisk grön vänster, Finnish: Pohjoismaiden vihreän vasemmiston liitto; NGLA) is an alliance of Nordic left-wing parties, founded in Reykjavík, Iceland, on 1 February 2004. Initially founded by five parties representing Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland, in 2009 two other parties from Greenland and the Faroe Islands joined the NGLA.[1]

Members

Initial logo
Former logo

The member organisations of NGLA are:[2]

CountryNational partyNational MPsEuropean MPs
# of seatsLast election# of seatsLast election# of seatsLast election
 Denmark
Folketing		 Green Left
(Socialistisk Folkeparti)
15 / 175
 2022
15 / 179
 2022
2 / 14
 2019
Red-Green Alliance
(Enhedslisten – De Rød-Grønne)
9 / 175
9 / 179
1 / 14
The Alternative
(Alternativet)
6 / 175
6 / 179
0 / 14
 Faroe Islands
Løgting		 Republic
(Tjóðveldi)
6 / 33
 2022
0 / 179
0 / 2
 2022 Not in EU
 Finland
Eduskunta		 Left Alliance
(Vasemmistoliitto/Vänsterförbundet)
11 / 200
 2023
1 / 14
 2019
 Greenland
Inatsisartut		 Community of the People
(Inuit Ataqatigiit)
12 / 31
 2021
1 / 179
1 / 2
 2022 Not in EU
 Iceland
Althing		 Left-Green Movement
(Vinstrihreyfingin-grænt framboð)
8 / 63
 2021 Not in EU
 Norway
Storting		 Socialist Left Party
(Sosialistisk Venstreparti)
13 / 169
 2021 Not in EU
Red Party
(Rødt)
8 / 169
 Sweden
Riksdag		 Left Party
(Vänsterpartiet)
24 / 349
 2022
1 / 20
 2019

Most of the member parties of NGLA have not joined the Party of the European Left (the Finnish Left Alliance and the Danish Red-Green Alliance being a recent exception), but NGLA participates in EL events as an observer.

In the European Parliament, the MEP of the Swedish Left Party, the Danish Red-Green Alliance and the Finnish Left Alliance are part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left parliamentary group, whilst the Danish Socialist People's Party MEP is a member of the Greens-EFA group. The Irish Sinn Féin, the Basque EH Bildu, the Dutch Party for the Animals and the German Party Human Environment Animal Welfare have also joined the NGL.

Elected representatives of Member Parties

European institutions

OrganisationInstitutionNumber of seats
 European UnionEuropean Commission
0 / 28
European Council
(Heads of Government)
0 / 27
Council of the European Union
(Participation in Government)
1 / 27
European Parliament
5 / 705
 Council of EuropeParliamentary Assembly
3 / 324

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Hele Nordatlanten med i den venstregrønne alliance" [The whole North Atlantic now part of the Left-Green Alliance]. Nordic Council (in Danish). 12 May 2009. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
  2. ↑ "Nordic Green Left". Nordic Council. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
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