The Party of the European Left (PEL) is fragmenting and splitting into two, with one of the strands looking to create a left, green and feminist party comprising more members from central and eastern European countries, its leaders told Euronews.
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00:00The party of the European left is splitting, with one faction aiming to form a left, green
00:07and feminist party, with more members from Central and Eastern Europe.
00:12Seven left-wing European parties, including La France Insoumise, Spanish Podemos, Nordic
00:18Parties and Poland's Razem, have applied to create the European Left Alliance.
00:23Co-chair Catarina Martins says this formalises a project in development since 2018.
00:44They aim to attract parties from Eastern and Central European countries, in an attempt
00:51to draw those uncomfortable with the existing small communist parties in the European left.
01:22Most of European Labour Authority members have never been part of the European left
01:27party, but the new party is trying to appeal to some of those who are like prominent German
01:33Die Linke.
01:52I mean, it's a zero-sum game, and I don't want to enter into this game, these are here
02:01and these are there, because after all, we want to cooperate with these parties, we want
02:07to cooperate also with the new party when it is existing.
02:13The birth of ELA won't change the dynamics inside the European Parliament, where both
02:19parties will co-exist under the group of the left and said they are willing to cooperate.