Elections

By Gala Kabbaj | 7 Apr 2022

Campaign Diary: Look to the Left

The war in Ukraine, first and foremost, has decentred the general debate and, above all, has allowed Macron to reassert his presidential stature. On the left, the conflict has exacerbated already strong ideological divisions, and the gaps in the polls have widened.

By Attila Vajnai | 5 Apr 2022

Hungary: The Neoliberal Parliamentary Opposition’s Alliance With the Far Right Has Failed

The Chairperson of the Workers' Party of Hungary 2006 and member of the Secretariat of the Party of the European Left, Attila Vajnai, provides a left viewpoint on the Hungarian parliamentary election.

By Hugo Monteiro | 23 Feb 2022

Portuguese Elections: The Left at a Crossroads

Socialist Party (PS) achieved absolute majority, the left had to face significant defeat.

By Gala Kabbaj | 18 Feb 2022

Campaign Diary: Look to the Right

How do Le Pen, Zemmour, and Pécresse present themselves ideologically and socially in relation to the right and the extreme right?

By Giovanni Russo Spena | 8 Feb 2022

Mattadraghismo

Italy's President Sergio Mattarella’s re-election has elicited a general sigh of relief on the part of those who trembled at the thought of a mediocre spectacle of ungovernability. Let us, however, analyse some significant open questions on Italy's institutional and social structures.

By Jukka Pietiläinen | 27 Jan 2022

Finland: Left Alliance and Most of the Other Government Parties Won in the First Regional County Elections

The purpose of the vote was to elect representatives for the 21 county councils, newly formed public law entities which will take control of healthcare and social and emergency services.

20 Dec 2021

Historical Victory of Gabriel Boric in Chile: Fighting Back Neoliberalism, Intolerance and Discrimination

On 19 December, the left-wing candidate Gabriel Boric won the presidential elections in Chile. The Party of the European Left (EL) congratulates Boric for the historical electoral success.

By Andreas Thomsen, Eva Milsted Enoksen | 24 Nov 2021

Eva Milsted Enoksen on the election victory of the Red-Green Alliance in Copenhagen

Interviewed by Andreas Thomsen, Deputy Head of Regional Coordination of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation, on the outcome of the Danish municipal elections.

By Heide Hammer | 19 Nov 2021

The ‘House of Graz’ – For the First Time, a Communist Elected Mayor in Austria’s Second-Largest City

On 17 November Elke Kahr, chair of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) Graz, was confirmed as Mayor in the constituent session of the Graz Municipal Council.

By Inger V. Johansen | 19 Nov 2021

Danish Municipal Elections – A Big Win for the Red-Green Alliance

On 16 November 2021, municipal elections were held in Denmark, which turned out to be a big win for Enhedslisten/Red-Green Alliance (RGA), the most left party in the Danish parliament and a member Party of the European Left.

By Adriano Campos | 18 Nov 2021

Portugal: Health, Pensions and Labour Constitute the Deadlocks on the Left

President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has called for snap elections on 30 January 2022 after António Costa's (Socialist Party) government was rejected on 27 October, obtaining yes votes only by the socialists' MPs. Read about the background here.

By Raymond Allal | 15 Nov 2021

Could Marine Le Pen’s Dominance of the French Far Right Be Under Threat?

After her setback in the regional elections, Marine Le Pen now finds herself rattled by the unexpected rise of far-right media polemicist Éric Zemmour. Between its desire to represent a break with the status quo on the one hand, and its aspirations to electability on the other, her National Rally party is going through an identity crisis.

By Cornelia Hildebrandt | 5 Nov 2021

Germany on the Road to an SPD-Green-FDP Coalition

The formation of a 'traffic-light' government can base itself on a broad social consensus beyond the three parties. The consultation paper looks greener and more social than previous policy but at the same time without breaking from the logic of neoliberalism.

By Dagmar Švendová | 29 Oct 2021

Interview With Kateřina Konečná, Newly Elected Chairwoman of the KSČM

At the Czech Communist Party’s (Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia - KSČM) 23 October congress a new leadership was elected with Kateřina Konečná, a current MEP, as new chairwoman. The interview was conducted right after the congress by transform! europe’s Dagmar Švendová.

By Roberto Morea | 14 Oct 2021

Italy’s 2021 Local Elections

More than 11 million Italian citizens were eligible to vote for city councils and mayors of municipalities throughout the country – which resulted in significant political changes.

By Jiří Málek | 12 Oct 2021

Czech Elections: All Fears Have Come True

Prime minister Andrej Babiš’s party narrowly lost in the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election. For the left, the result was a disaster: both social democrats and communists failed to enter Parliament.

By Kerstin Kaiser, Vladimir Fomenko | 5 Oct 2021

2021 State Duma Elections: No (Appetite For) Change?

On 19 September 2021, 450 members were elected to Russia’s State Duma. This was the eighth such election to be held in the history of the Russian Federation. Half of these candidates were elected directly via their constituency (first vote), the other half were chosen via lists of candidates from permitted parties (second vote). For

By Michael Graber | 29 Sep 2021

A Day That Changed Not Only Graz

For the first time since 1945 in a large Austrian city, the second largest in the country with about 300,000 inhabitants, the bourgeois candidate was voted out in favour of a Communist. Long-time mayor Siegfried Nagl (ÖVP – conservative) suffered heavy losses, while the KPÖ under city councilwoman Elke Kahr came out in first place.

By Horst Kahrs | 28 Sep 2021

Breaking Down the 2021 German Federal Election

A reshuffling of the political centre and a disaster for Die LINKE.

By Harald Pätzolt | 21 Sep 2021

Germany’s Upcoming Bundestag Election

In view of the recession in Germany’s manufacturing industry and with Angela Merkel not standing for election, the parties of the three chancellor candidates are closer in the polls than ever before. Die LINKE could have one path to power: in a coalition with the Social Democrats and the Greens.

By Jiří Málek | 17 Sep 2021

Elections to the Russian State Duma

There will be a number of important elections on the European continent this year. Somewhat out of sights of mainstream media and EU citizens are the elections to the highest legislative body in the Russian Federation – the Duma. What are the issues involved?

By Marga Ferre | 18 May 2021

‘Fascism or Democracy’. Lessons Learned from Madrid Elections

On 4 May there were elections in the region of Madrid and its result, the victory of a trumpist right, has been lived and interpreted internationally as a painful defeat for the left, magnified by the departure of Pablo Iglesias of active politics. It was a defeat, but much more in terms of a cultural battle than in the electoral field.

By Boyan Stanislavski, Mirena Filipova | 14 Apr 2021

Non-representative democracy — season Bulgaria, episode 2021

On April 4 in Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections, 25% of voters supported Prime Minister Boyko Borissov's right-wing party, GERB. But new parties that campaigned on anti-corruption and Covid denial also did extremely well. The left's decline is disastrous.

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