Democratic Left Alliance Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej | |
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| Leader | Włodzimierz Czarzasty |
| Founder | Aleksander Kwaśniewski |
| Founded | 9 July 1991 (as a coalition) 15 April 1999 (as a party) |
| Dissolved | 27 January 2020 (2020-01-27) |
| Merger of | SdRP, minor parties (1991) |
| Merged into | New Left |
| Headquarters | ul. Złota 9Warsaw |
| Youth wing | Social Democratic Youth Federation |
| Membership(2018) | 33,554[1] |
| Ideology | Social democracy Pro-Europeanism[2] Atlanticism[3][4][5] |
| Political position | Centre-left[6] |
| National affiliation | The LeftA[›] |
| European affiliation | Party of European Socialists |
| International affiliation | Progressive Alliance |
| European Parliament group | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats |
| Colours | Red |
| Website | |
| lewica | |
^ A: PreviouslySLD-UP (2001–14),Left and Democrats (2006–08),United Left (2015) and theEuropean Coalition (2019). | |
TheDemocratic Left Alliance was asocial-democratic[7][8][9]political party inPoland. It was formed on 9 July 1991 as anelectoralalliance ofcentre-left parties. It became a single party on 15 April 1999. It was the majorcoalition party in Poland between 1993 and 1997, and between 2001 and 2005, with four Prime ministers coming from the party:Józef Oleksy,Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz,Leszek Miller andMarek Belka. It then faded intoopposition, overshadowed by the rise ofCivic Platform andLaw and Justice.
In February 2020, the party initiated a process to absorb theSpring party, choosing the nameNew Left (Polish:Nowa Lewica), and changing to a more modern logo.
The party was a member of theParty of European Socialists andProgressive Alliance.