Now the People

Now the People! (Danish: Det er Folkets tur Nu; French: Maintenant le Peuple ! Finnish: Nyt on Ihmisten Vuoro!; Portuguese: Agora o Povo !; Spanish: Ahora la Gente; Swedish: Det är folkets tur nu) is a political movement in the European Union. It was founded in April 2018 by a declaration from Catarina Martins from the Portuguese party Bloco de Esquerda, Pablo Iglesias from the Spanish party Podemos, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France Insoumise main French socialist party.

Now the People! Maintenant le Peuple ! Det er Folkets tur Nu Nyt on Ihmisten Vuoro! Agora o Povo ! Ahora la Gente Det är Folkets tur Nu
Founded	April 2018
Split from	Party of the European Left
Ideology	Democratic socialism Eco-socialism Left-wing populism
Political position	Left-wing
European Parliament group	The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL
European Parliament	13 / 705
Lower house seats (nations of member parties)	158 / 1,885
Upper house seats (nations of member parties)	3 / 613
Website
nowthepeople.eu
Politics of the European Union Political parties Elections

After discussions about the austerity policy of the Greek government under Alexis Tsipras and his Syriza party, the leaders of the leftist La France insoumise departed the Party of the European Left, joined by Iglesias and Podemos as well as Martins and Bloco.^[1] In June 2018, the Danish Red–Green Alliance, Finnish Left Alliance and the Swedish Left Party co-operated with the French Maintenant le Peuple ! (MLP). The Portuguese, Finnish and Danish parties are members of both Now the People and Party of the European Left.^[2][3]

Potere al Popolo, a coalition of several small left-wing parties and organisations in Italy, also "lent its support" to MLP,^[4] calling it "a very important call proposed by three of the most popular alternatives from Europe [Left Bloc, Podemos and La France Insoumise], which we cannot ignore."^[5] However, as Potere al Popolo did not participate in the 2019 European Parliament election, and as it had no incumbent MEPs in the eighth European Parliament, it is not a full member of MLP.^[6]

In the European elections, parties associated with MLP won a total of 14 seats. La France Insoumise won six seats, the most out of MLP's constituent parties.^[7]

In the ninth European Parliament, MLP joined with other left-wing parties and independents, including the Party of the European Left from which MLP split, in the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group.^[8]

Members

There are currently six members of MLP, not including Potere al Popolo (PaP). Except PaP, all are represented in the European Parliament for the ninth term, with three parties (the Red–Green Alliance, the Left Alliance and the Left Party) sending one member to Parliament and another three (Podemos, La France Insoumise and the Left Bloc) sending multiple members. The Unidas Podemos list, which Podemos leads, elected six members to the European Parliament,^[9] but only three are members of Podemos and only three sit within MLP in the European Parliament.^[10] Two members of Unidas Podemos' list — Manu Pineda and Sira Rego — are members of the United Left (IU)^[11] and the third — Ernest Urtasun — is a member of Green Left, which itself is a constituent party of the regional alliance Catalunya en Comú (CatComú).^[12] None of IU, Green Left or CatComú are members of MLP. Furthermore, Urtasun does not sit with European United Left–Nordic Green Left as IU and Podemos do; he sits within the European Greens–European Free Alliance group.^[13]

Name			Country	Leader	2019 election list leader	Ideology	Position	Other European party	MEPs	National MPs	Government
		Left Bloc Bloco de Esquerda	Portugal	Mariana Mortágua	Marisa Matias	Socialism Eco-socialism Soft Euroscepticism	Left-wing to far-left	European Anti-Capitalist Left Party of the European Left	2 / 21	5 / 230	Opposition
		We can Podemos (within Sumar)	Spain	Ione Belarra	María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop	Democratic socialism Direct democracy Left-wing populism	Left-wing	None	3 / 54	5 / 350 0 / 265	Junior partner
		France Unbowed La France Insoumise (within NUPES)	France	Jean-Luc Mélenchon	Manon Aubry	Democratic socialism Eco-socialism Anti-globalisation politics	Left-wing to far-left	None	5 / 74	74 / 577 0 / 348	Opposition
		Red–Green Alliance Enhedslisten – De Rød-Grønne	Denmark	Collective leadership^[a]	Nikolaj Villumsen	Socialism Eco-socialism Euroscepticism	Left-wing to far-left	European Anti-Capitalist Left Party of the European Left Nordic Green Left Alliance	1 / 14	9 / 179	Opposition
		Left Alliance Vasemmistoliitto Vänsterförbundet	Finland	Li Andersson	Silvia Modig	Democratic socialism Eco-socialism	Left-wing	Party of the European Left Nordic Green Left Alliance	1 / 13	11 / 200	Opposition
		Left Party Vänsterpartiet	Sweden	Nooshi Dadgostar	Malin Björk	Socialism Feminism Soft Euroscepticism	Left-wing	Nordic Green Left Alliance	1 / 20	24 / 349	Opposition^[14]

Notes

1. Mai Villadsen is the party's political spokesperson and de facto leader

References

1. "Schäbige Figur". junge Welt. 12 July 2018.
2. "Our Parties". Party of the European Left.
3. "Now The People !". Now The People !.
4. "La nostra adesione all'appello di Podemos, France Insoumise e Bloco De Esquerda". Potere al Popolo (in Italian). 15 April 2018. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
5. Cazenaves, Téo (30 April 2018). "" MAINTENANT LE PEUPLE " : MÉLENCHON, IGLESIAS ET MARTINS SIGNENT UN ACCORD EUROPÉEN À LISBONNE". Le Media Presse (in French). Retrieved 26 May 2019.
6. "Potere al Popolo non-parteciperà alle prossime elezioni europee". Oggi Notizie (in Italian). 3 April 2019. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
7. "La France Insoumise". GUE/NGL.
8. "Delegations". GUE/NGL.
9. . resultados.eleccioneslocaleseuropeas19.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Archived from the original on 30 May 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
10. "Podemos". GUE/NGL.
11. "Izquierda Unida". GUE/NGL.
12. Puig, Xavier. "El ball dels Comuns". El Temps (in Catalan).
13. "Members". Greens/EFA.
14. "Vänsterpartiet saknar förtroende för statsministern". vansterpartiet.se. Left Party. from the original on 20 June 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2021.

External links

• Official website  
• Declaration Maintenant le peuple! Pour une révolution citoyenne en Europe