Democratic Left Alliance

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The Democratic Left Alliance was a major post-communist social-democratic political party in Poland that played a leading role in the country’s politics during the 1990s and early 2000s.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf political party
post-communist party
social-democratic party
abbreviation SLD
activePeriod 1990s
2000s
coalitionPartner Labour Union (Poland)
Polish People's Party
color red
country Poland
dissolved 2021
electoralAlliance Democratic Left Alliance self-linksurface differs
surface form: Democratic Left Alliance–Labour Union
EuropeanAffiliation Party of European Socialists
EuropeanParliamentGroup Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament
surface form: Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
founded 1991
headquartersLocation Warsaw
historicalContext post-communist transition in Poland
ideology democratic socialism
social democracy
language Polish
legalForm coalition of parties
political party
mergedInto New Left (Poland)
nativeLabel Polish Democratic Left Alliance
surface form: Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej
notableElection 1993 Polish parliamentary election
2001 Polish parliamentary election
notableLeader Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Grzegorz Napieralski
Leszek Miller
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
opposedTo PiS
surface form: Law and Justice (party)

Solidarity Electoral Action
origin successor to former communist structures in Poland
parliamentaryRepresentation Sejm
Senate of Poland
participatedInGovernment 1993–1997
2001–2005
politicalPosition centre-left
politicalSystemContext Third Polish Republic
predecessor Polish United Workers' Party
primeMinisterFromParty Leszek Miller
Marek Belka
roleInPolitics governing party in Poland
major party in post-communist Poland
supportedPresident Aleksander Kwaśniewski
transformedInto Polish Democratic Left Alliance
surface form: New Left (Poland)
wonElection 1993 Polish parliamentary election
2001 Polish parliamentary election

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Polish United Workers' Party succeededBy Democratic Left Alliance
Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland mergedInto Democratic Left Alliance
Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland memberOf Democratic Left Alliance
this entity surface form: Democratic Left Alliance electoral coalition
Democratic Left Alliance electoralAlliance Democratic Left Alliance self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Democratic Left Alliance–Labour Union
PZPR succeededBy Democratic Left Alliance
subject surface form: Polish United Workers' Party
Grzegorz Lato politicalParty Democratic Left Alliance
Solidarity Electoral Action opposedBy Democratic Left Alliance
Karol Modzelewski memberOf Democratic Left Alliance
Aleksander Kwaśniewski memberOfPoliticalParty Democratic Left Alliance
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, later Prime Minister of Poland memberOf Democratic Left Alliance
subject surface form: Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, later Prime Minister of Poland parliamentaryGroup Democratic Left Alliance
subject surface form: Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
SLD shortName Democratic Left Alliance
subject surface form: Democratic Left Alliance
1993 Polish parliamentary election mainWinningParty Democratic Left Alliance
New Left (Poland) formedByMergerOf Democratic Left Alliance
New Left (Poland) predecessor Democratic Left Alliance
New Left (Poland) hasPredecessorParty Democratic Left Alliance
Marek Belka memberOfPoliticalParty Democratic Left Alliance
Leszek Miller memberOf Democratic Left Alliance
Leszek Miller parliamentaryGroup Democratic Left Alliance
Grzegorz Napieralski memberOf Democratic Left Alliance
Grzegorz Napieralski politicalParty Democratic Left Alliance
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz memberOfPoliticalParty Democratic Left Alliance
Józef Oleksy memberOf Democratic Left Alliance
Monika Jaruzelska representedParty Democratic Left Alliance
this entity surface form: Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej (Democratic Left Alliance)