Now the People

{{Infobox political party

| name = Now the People !

| native_name = {{ubl|

|{{native name|da|Det er Folkets tur Nu|italics=no}}

|{{native name|fi|Nyt on Ihmisten Vuoro !|italics=no}}

|{{native name|fr|Maintenant le Peuple !|italics=no}}

|{{native name|it|Ora il Popolo!|italics=no}}

|{{native name|pt|Agora o Povo !|italics=no}}

|{{native name|es|Ahora la Gente|italics=no}}

|{{native name|sv|Det är Folkets tur Nu|italics=no}}

}}

| native_name_lang =

| colorcode = #27355c

| logo = Now the People logo.png

| logo_size = 300px

| foundation = April 2018

| split = Party of the European Left

| ideology = {{Nowrap|Democratic socialism
Eco-socialism
Left-wing populism}}

| position = Left-wing

| europarl = The Left in the European Parliament

| seats1_title = European Parliament

| seats1 = {{Composition bar|24|720|hex=#27355c|per=1}}

| seats2_title = European
Lower Houses

| seats2 = {{Composition bar|156|{{EU institution seats|ms-lower-house}}|hex=#27355c|per=1}}

| seats3_title = European
Upper Houses

| seats3 = {{Composition bar|3|{{EU institution seats|ms-upper-house}}|hex=#27355c|per=1}}

| website = {{Official URL}}

| country = the European Union

| parties_dab1 = European political party

| elections_dab1 = Elections to the European Parliament

}}

Now the People ! (NTP){{efn|{{langx|fr|Maintenant le Peuple !}}
{{langx|da|Det er Folkets tur Nu}}
{{langx|fi|Nyt on Ihmisten Vuoro !}}
{{langx|pt|Agora o Povo !}}
{{langx|es|Ahora la Gente}}
{{langx|sv|Det är Folkets tur nu}}}} is a left-wing European political alliance. It was founded in April 2018 by a declaration from Catarina Martins from the Portuguese party Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc), Pablo Iglesias from the Spanish party Podemos, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France Insoumise (LFI), a French socialist party.

History

After concerns about the austerity policies pursued by the Greek government under Alexis Tsipras and his Syriza party, the leaders of the leftist La France insoumise (LFI) departed the Party of the European Left, joined by Iglesias and Podemos as well as Martins and Bloco.{{Cite web |title=Europäische Linke: »Schäbige Figur« |url=https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/335823.sch%C3%A4bige-figur.html |access-date=2024-01-14 |website=junge Welt |language=de}} In June 2018, the Danish Red–Green Alliance, Finnish Left Alliance and the Swedish Left Party announced that they were affiliating with their French, Spanish and Portuguese counterparts and forming Now The People ! (NTP).{{Cite web |url=https://nowthepeople.eu/ |title=Now The People ! |website=Now The People !}}

Power to the People, a coalition of several small left-wing parties and organisations in Italy, also "lent its support" to NTP,{{Cite web |url=https://poterealpopolo.org/la-nostra-adesione-allappello-di-podemos-france-insoumise-e-blocco-de-esquerda/ |title=La nostra adesione all'appello di Podemos, France Insoumise e Bloco De Esquerda |date=15 April 2018 |website=Potere al Popolo |language=Italian |access-date=26 May 2019}} 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."{{Cite news |url=https://lemediapresse.fr/politique/maintenant-le-peuple-melenchon-iglesias-et-martins-signent-un-accord-europeen-a-lisbonne/ |title="Maintenant Le Peuple": Mélenchon, Iglesias et Martins Signent Un Accord Européen À Lisbonne |last=Cazenaves |first=Téo |date=30 April 2018 |work=Le Media Presse |access-date=26 May 2019 |language=French}} 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.{{Cite news |url=https://www.ogginotizie.it/potere-al-popolo-non-partecipera-alle-prossime-elezioni-europee/ |title=Potere al Popolo non-parteciperà alle prossime elezioni europee |date=3 April 2019 |work=Oggi Notizie |access-date=26 May 2019 |language=Italian}}

In the European elections, parties associated with NTP won a total of 14 seats. LFI won six seats, the most out of NTP's constituent parties.{{Cite web |url=https://www.guengl.eu/groups/delegation/la-france-insoumise/ |title=La France Insoumise |website=GUE/NGL}}

In the ninth European Parliament, NTP joined with other left-wing parties and independents, including the Party of the European Left from which NTP split, in the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group.{{Cite web |url=https://www.guengl.eu/groups/delegation/enhedslisten/ |title=Delegations |website=GUE/NGL}}

Ahead of the 2024 European Parliament election, the leaders of the six NTP parties signed on to a common manifesto after meeting in Paris.{{Cite web |date=2023-11-17 |title=United for Solidarity, Climate, Justice and Peace – Now The People ! Political declaration |url=https://nowthepeople.eu/united-for-solidarity-climate-justice-and-peace-now-the-people-political-declaration/ |access-date=2024-01-14 |website=Now The People ! |language=fr-FR}} At that election, overall NTP representation increased from 13 MEPs to 18, with LFI sending nine MEPs, the Left Alliance sending three, Podemos and the Left Party sending two, and the Red–Green Alliance and Left Bloc sending one apiece. The party also released a manifesto, 10 points for a Green Left Europe: Europe for the People, signed by the six member parties, along with Italian political party Italian Left, German political party The Left, Basque political party EH Bildu, and Luxembourgish political party The Left.{{Cite web |date=February 16, 2024 |title=10 points for a Green Left Europe: Europe for the People |url=https://nowthepeople.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/NOW-THE-PEOPLE-10-POINTS-PROGRAMME.pdf |website=Now the People!}}

After the 2024 European Parliament election, Italian Left, which elected two MEPs within the Greens and Left Alliance, and the German party The Left, which elected three MEPs, announced their formal affiliations with the Now the People, bringing the total number of elected MEPs to 23. The Left Bloc disassociated with the Party of the European Left following the election, leaving NTP as their sole European political party.{{Cite web |url=https://www.european-left.org/our-parties/ |title=Our Parties |website=Party of the European Left}}

On 19 September 2024, Manon Aubry announced that the six original members of NTP, along with the Polish party Left Together, were creating a new European political party in the coming months. Those seven parties had previously formed the European Left Alliance for the People and the Planet.{{Cite web |last=Maurer |first=Pierre |date=2024-09-18 |title=La France Insoumise va créer un nouveau parti européen |url=https://www.leparisien.fr/politique/la-france-insoumise-va-creer-un-nouveau-parti-europeen-18-09-2024-GB4SYVV4KNF4DKG2DKBIQAFMWY.php |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240919080649/https://www.leparisien.fr/politique/la-france-insoumise-va-creer-un-nouveau-parti-europeen-18-09-2024-GB4SYVV4KNF4DKG2DKBIQAFMWY.php |archive-date=2024-09-19 |access-date=2024-09-19 |website=leparisien.fr |language=fr-FR}}

Members

There are currently eight members of NTP.

class="wikitable sortable" ! colspan="3" \| Name ! Country ! Leader ! 2024 election list leader ! Ideology ! Position ! Other European party ! MEPs ! National MPs ! Government
width="5" style="background-color: {{party color\|Red-Green Alliance (Denmark)}}" \| \| 80x80px \| Red–Green Alliance {{lang\|da\|Enhedslisten – De Rød-Grønne}} \| {{Flag\|Denmark}} \| Collective leadership{{efn\|Pelle Dragsted is the party's political spokesperson and de facto leader\|name=

class="wikitable sortable"

! colspan="3" | Name

! Country

! Leader

! 2024 election
list leader

! Ideology

! Position

! Other European party

! MEPs

! National MPs

! Government

width="5" style="background-color: {{party color|Red-Green Alliance (Denmark)}}" |

| 80x80px

| Red–Green Alliance
{{lang|da|Enhedslisten – De Rød-Grønne}}

| {{Flag|Denmark}}

| Collective leadership{{efn|Pelle Dragsted is the party's political spokesperson and de facto leader|name=

}

| {{sortname|Per|Clausen}}

| Socialism
Eco-socialism
Euroscepticism

| Left-wing to far-left

| ELA
NGLA
EACL

| {{Composition bar|1|15|hex={{party color|Red-Green Alliance (Denmark)}}}}

| {{Composition bar|9|179|hex={{party color|Red-Green Alliance (Denmark)}}}}

| {{No|Opposition}}

! width="5" style="background-color: {{party color|The Left (Germany)}}" |

| 80x80px

| The Left
{{lang|de|Die Linke}}

| {{Flag|Germany}}

| {{sortname|Ines|Schwerdtner}}
{{sortname|Jan|Van Aken}}

| {{sortname|Martin|Schirdewan}}
{{sortname|Carola|Rackete}}

| Democratic socialism
Left-wing populism

| Left-wing

| EL

| {{Composition bar|3|96|hex={{party color|The Left (Germany)}}}}

| {{Composition bar|28|736|hex={{party color|The Left (Germany)}}}}

| {{No|Opposition}}

! width="5" style="background-color: {{party color|Left Alliance (Finland)}}" |

| 80x80px

| Left Alliance
{{lang|fi|Vasemmistoliitto}}
{{lang|sv|Vänsterförbundet}}

| {{Flag|Finland}}

| {{sortname|Minja|Koskela}}

| {{sortname|Li|Andersson}}

| Democratic socialism
Eco-socialism

| Left-wing

| ELA
NGLA

| {{Composition bar|3|15|hex={{party color|Left Alliance (Finland)}}}}

| {{Composition bar|11|200|hex={{party color|Left Alliance (Finland)}}}}

| {{No|Opposition}}

! width="5" style="background-color: {{party color|La France Insoumise}}" |

| File:LFI Logo 2024.svg

| France Unbowed
{{lang|fr|La France Insoumise}}
{{small|(within New Popular Front)}}

| {{Flag|France}}

| {{sortname|Manuel|Bompard}}

| {{sortname|Manon|Aubry}}

| Democratic socialism
Eco-socialism
Anti-globalisation politics

| Left-wing to far-left

| ELA

| {{Composition bar|9|81|hex={{party color|La France Insoumise}}}}

| {{Composition bar|71|577|hex={{party color|La France Insoumise}}}}{{Composition bar|0|348|hex={{party color|La France Insoumise}}}}

| {{No|Opposition}}

! width="5" style="background-color: {{party color|Italian Left}}" |

| 80x80px

| Italian Left
{{lang|it|Sinistra Italiana}}
{{small|(within Greens and Left Alliance)}}

| {{Flag|Italy}}

| {{sortname|Nicola|Fratoianni}}

| N/A{{efn|Italy uses regional lists for European Parliament elections, and as part of its coalition agreement within the Green and Left Alliance, SI did not have a leading candidate in any region.}}

| Democratic socialism
Eco-socialism

| Left-wing

| EL
(observer)

| {{Composition bar|2|76|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}}

| {{Composition bar|4|400|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}}{{Composition bar|3|200|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}}

| {{No|Opposition}}

! width="5" style="background-color: {{party color|Left Bloc (Portugal)}}" |

| 80x80px

| Left Bloc
{{lang|pt|Bloco de Esquerda}}

| {{Flag|Portugal}}

| Collective leadership{{efn|Mariana Mortágua is the party's coordinator of political affairs and de facto leader|name=|}}

| {{sortname|Catarina|Martins}}

| Socialism
Eco-socialism
Soft Euroscepticism

| Left-wing to far-left

| ELA
EACL

| {{Composition bar|1|21|hex={{party color|Left Bloc (Portugal)}}}}

| {{Composition bar|5|230|hex={{party color|Left Bloc (Portugal)}}}}

| {{No|Opposition}}

! width="5" style="background-color: {{party color|Podemos (Spanish political party, 2022)}}" |

| 80x80px

| We Can
{{lang|es|Podemos}}

| {{Flag|Spain}}

| {{sortname|Ione|Belarra}}

| {{sortname|Irene|Montero}}

| Democratic socialism
Direct democracy
Left-wing populism

| Left-wing to far-left

| ELA

| {{Composition bar|2|61|hex={{party color|Podemos (Spanish political party, 2022)}}}}

| {{Composition bar|4|350|hex={{party color|Podemos (Spanish political party, 2022)}}}}{{Composition bar|0|265|hex={{party color|Podemos (Spanish political party, 2022)}}}}

| {{Maybe|External support}}

! width="5" style="background-color: {{party color|Left Party (Sweden)}}" |

| 80x80px

| Left Party
{{lang|sv|Vänsterpartiet}}

| {{Flag|Sweden}}

| {{sortname|Nooshi|Dadgostar}}

| {{sortname|Jonas|Sjöstedt}}

| Socialism
Feminism
Soft Euroscepticism

| Left-wing

| ELA
NGLA

| {{Composition bar|2|21|hex={{party color|Left Party (Sweden)}}}}

| {{Composition bar|24|349|hex={{party color|Left Party (Sweden)}}}}

| {{No|Opposition}}{{cite web |title=Vänsterpartiet saknar förtroende för statsministern |url=https://www.vansterpartiet.se/vansterpartiet-saknar-fortroende-for-statsministern/ |website=vansterpartiet.se |publisher=Left Party |access-date=17 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210620203541/https://www.vansterpartiet.se/vansterpartiet-saknar-fortroende-for-statsministern/ |archive-date=20 June 2021 |url-status=live}}

Notes

References

External links

{{Official website}}
[https://lafranceinsoumise.fr/2018/04/13/peuple-revolution-citoyenne-europe/ Declaration Maintenant le peuple ! Pour une révolution citoyenne en Europe]

Category:2018 establishments in Europe

Category:Democratic socialist parties in Europe

Category:Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Category:European political alliances

Category:Party of the European Left

Category:Political parties established in 2018

Category:Socialist parties in Europe