Nordic Green Left Alliance Swedish: Nordisk grön vänster Finnish: Pohjoismaiden vihreän vasemmiston liitto Danish: Nordisk Grønne Venstre Alliance Norwegian: Nordisk Grønt Venstre Allianse Icelandic: Norræna vinstri-græna bandalagið
Abbreviation	NGLA (English) NGV (Swedish)
General Secretary	Mia Haglund
Founded	1 February 2004 (2004-02-01)
Ideology	Democratic socialism Eco-socialism Popular socialism Socialism Environmentalism Feminism Progressivism Factions: Euroscepticism Pro-Europeanism
Political position	Left-wing Minority: Far-left
European affiliation	PEL, NTP!, EGP
European Parliament group	The Left, Greens-EFA
Colours	Green   Crimson
Nordic Council	11 / 87
Website
nordicgreenleft.com
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The Nordic Green Left Alliance (Swedish: Nordisk grön vänster, Finnish: Pohjoismaiden vihreän vasemmiston liitto; NGLA) is an alliance of Nordic left-wing parties, founded in Reykjavík, Iceland, on 1 February 2004. Initially founded by five parties representing Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland, in 2009 two other parties from Greenland and the Faroe Islands joined the NGLA.^[1]

Members

The member organisations of NGLA are:^[2]

Country	National party	National MPs				European MPs
		# of seats	Last election	# of seats	Last election	# of seats	Last election
Denmark Folketing	Green Left (Socialistisk Folkeparti)	15 / 175	2022	15 / 179	2022	2 / 14	2019
	Red-Green Alliance (Enhedslisten – De Rød-Grønne)	9 / 175		9 / 179		1 / 14
	The Alternative (Alternativet)	6 / 175		6 / 179		0 / 14
Faroe Islands Løgting	Republic (Tjóðveldi)	6 / 33	2022	0 / 179 0 / 2	2022	Not in EU
Finland Eduskunta	Left Alliance (Vasemmistoliitto/Vänsterförbundet)	11 / 200			2023	1 / 14	2019
Greenland Inatsisartut	Community of the People (Inuit Ataqatigiit)	12 / 31	2021	1 / 179 1 / 2	2022	Not in EU
Iceland Althing	Left-Green Movement (Vinstrihreyfingin-grænt framboð)	8 / 63			2021	Not in EU
Norway Storting	Socialist Left Party (Sosialistisk Venstreparti)	13 / 169			2021	Not in EU
	Red Party (Rødt)	8 / 169
Sweden Riksdag	Left Party (Vänsterpartiet)	24 / 349			2022	1 / 20	2019

Most of the member parties of NGLA have not joined the Party of the European Left (the Finnish Left Alliance and the Danish Red-Green Alliance being a recent exception), but NGLA participates in EL events as an observer.

In the European Parliament, the MEP of the Swedish Left Party, the Danish Red-Green Alliance and the Finnish Left Alliance are part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left parliamentary group, whilst the Danish Socialist People's Party MEP is a member of the Greens-EFA group. The Irish Sinn Féin, the Basque EH Bildu, the Dutch Party for the Animals and the German Party Human Environment Animal Welfare have also joined the NGL.

Elected representatives of Member Parties

European institutions

Organisation	Institution	Number of seats
European Union	European Commission	0 / 28
	European Council (Heads of Government)	0 / 27
	Council of the European Union (Participation in Government)	1 / 27
	European Parliament	5 / 705
Council of Europe	Parliamentary Assembly	3 / 324