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Democratic Left Alliance

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Also known as SLD

Polish centre-left political party

Key facts

Leader
Włodzimierz Czarzasty
Founder
Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Founded
9 July 1991 ; , 34 years ago ( 1991-07-09 ) , (as a coalition), 15 April 1999 ; , 27 years ago ( 1999-04-15 ) , (as a party)
Dissolved
9 October 2021 ; 4 years ago ( 2021-10-09 )
Merger of
SdRP , minor parties (1991)
Merged into
New Left
Headquarters
ul. Złota 9 Warsaw
Youth wing
Social Democratic Youth Federation
Membership 2018
33,554
Ideology
Social democracy , Pro-Europeanism , Atlanticism
Political position
Centre-left
National affiliation
The Left
European affiliation
Party of European Socialists
European parliament group
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
International affiliation
Progressive Alliance
Colours
Red

via Wikipedia infobox

Official website

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sld.org.pl

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Encyclopedic overview

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The Democratic Left Alliance (Polish: Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej) was a social-democratic political party in Poland. It was formed on 9 July 1991 as an electoral alliance of centre-left parties, and became a single party on 15 April 1999. It was the major coalition 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 and Marek Belka. It then faded into opposition, overshadowed by the rise of Civic Platform and Law and Justice.

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