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The Coalition of the Left, of Movements and Ecology (Shorter: Coalition, Greek: Synaspismos, Συνασπισμός) is a Greek political party of the radical left. Its president is Alekos Alavanos, who succeeded the lawyer Nikos Konstantopoulos.

The current party was founded in 1992 after the Communist Party of Greece withdrew from an earlier project, also called Synaspismos (Coalition of the Left and Progress).

The party has members in the national and European Parliament. It claims to be the third largest party of local government in Greece. In the European Parliament they sit in the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group. Synaspismos is also a founding member of the European Left party.

Synaspismos says it is democratic socialist, green, feminist and anti-militaristic.

The full name of the party is Coalition of the Left, of Movements and Ecology (Greek: Συνασπισμός της Αριστεράς, των Κινημάτων, και της Οικολογίας).

See also

• Greece
• Politics of Greece
• List of political parties in Greece

External links

• Synaspismos' web site in English (http://www.syn.gr/index/en/enmainframe.htm)
• Greek election results (http://ekloges.ypes.gr/en/), via the Greek Ministry of Internal Affairs

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