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The Left Alliance ((フィンランド語:Vasemmistoliitto), (スウェーデン語:Vänsterförbundet), VAS) is a left-wing political party in Finland. Founded in 1990, largely as a successor of the Finnish People's Democratic League (SKDL), it has received quite some electoral success, receiving shares of votes of around ten percent in parliamentary elections. The party is a member of the Party of the European Left and Nordic Green Left Alliance. The party organ is the weekly ''Kansan Uutiset''. == History == The party was founded by the Finnish People's Democratic League (SKDL), the majority of members of the waning Communist Party of Finland (SKP) and the Finnish Women's Democratic League (SNDL). It was later joined by the communist Democratic Alternative. The founding meeting was held in April 1990 in Helsinki, following the publishing of the ''April Declaration'', which emphasised various ideals. The party's short history has been characterised by internal disputes and bickering, as it was formed by people with very different views on society. There have been several defections from the Left Alliance to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the newly formed Communist Party of Finland. In 2005, the party's former secretary and Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions's assistant head Matti Viialainen formed a society to promote merger between the two largest Finnish left-wing political parties, the Left Alliance and the SDP. This caused an outrage within the Left Alliance, and Viialainen was condemned for wanting to break up the party. Viialainen would subsequently leave the party and run for parliament on the SDP ticket in 2007.〔 〕 In 2006, the party's leader Suvi-Anne Siimes announced her resignation from the post, and the party, as a result of long-standing feuds with the leftist section of the party. On May 13, 2006, Martti Korhonen was elected as the new party leader. He was followed by Paavo Arhinmäki in June 2009, following the party's bad performance in the 2009 EU parliamentary election. The Left Alliance had three portfolios in the two cabinets of Paavo Lipponen (1995-2003). The party had two portfolios in the cabinet of Jyrki Katainen from 2011 to 2014. In the spring of 2014 the Left Alliance decided to leave the cabinet, citing the party's opposition to the government's decision to cut social welfare programs.〔http://yle.fi/uutiset/vasemmistoliitto_lahtee_hallituksesta/7155893〕 The party won 14 seats in the election in 2011, but two MPs were expelled from the parliamentary group after repeatedly breaking from the official party line. The party lost its MEP in the 2009 European elections, but was able to regain the seat in 2014. In the Finnish parliamentary election in 2015 the party got 211,615 or 7,1% of total votes, and got 12 seats in the parliament. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Left Alliance (Finland)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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