Maintenant le Peuple

Maintenant le Peuple (MLP, in English: Now the People) is an EU political movement. It was founded in April 2018. Catarina Martins from the Portuguese party Bloco de Esquerda, Pablo Iglesias from the Spanish party Podemos and French politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France insoumise, then issued a declaration and de facto split the former Party of the European Left.

After harsh discussions about the austerity policy of the Greek government under Alexis Tsipras the leaders of the French, Portuguese and Spanish left parties left the Party of the European Left.^[1] In June 2018, the Danish Red–Green Alliance, Finnish Left Alliance and the Swedish Left Party joined the MLP. Thus, the intra-EU parties of the Nordic Green Left Alliance effectively joined the MLP and left the Party of the European Left.^[2][3]

Members

Name		Country	Leader	Ideology	MEPs	National MPs
	Left Bloc Bloco de Esquerda	Portugal	Catarina Martins	Democratic socialism Eco-socialism	1 / 21	19 / 230
	We can Podemos	Spain	Pablo Iglesias	Democratic socialism Left-wing populism	5 / 54	43 / 350 16 / 265
	Unsubmissive France La France Insoumise	France	Jean-Luc Mélenchon	Democratic socialism Eco-socialism	1 / 74	17 / 577 1 / 348
	Red–Green Alliance Enhedslisten – De Rød-Grønne	Denmark	Collective leadership	Socialism Eco-socialism	1 / 13	14 / 179
	Left Alliance Vasemmistoliitto	Finland	Li Andersson	Democratic socialism Eco-socialism	1 / 13	12 / 200
	Left Party Vänsterpartiet	Sweden	Jonas Sjöstedt	Socialism Feminism	1 / 20	21 / 349

Links

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

References