Popular Unity (Greece)

Popular Unity - Insubordinate Left (Λαϊκή Ενότητα - Ανυπότακτη Αριστερά (ΛΑΕ - AA), Laïkí Enótita - Anipótakti Aristera, LAE - ΑΑ) is a left-wing political party in Greece.

Popular Unity was founded on 21 August 2015 by twenty five parliamentarians formerly affiliated to the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza), as a reaction to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' handling of the Greek bailout agreement of 2015.

History
Popular Unity was founded on 21 August 2015 by 25 parliamentarians formerly affiliated to the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza), as a reaction to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' handling of the Greek bailout agreement of 2015. At foundation Popular Unity was the third largest party in the Greek parliament. It was led by the former Minister of Energy in the Tsipras cabinet, Panagiotis Lafazanis. Dimitris Stratoulis (former Alternate Minister of Social Security) and Costas Isychos (former Alternate Minister of National Defence), who were sacked in July 2015, also joined the new party.

September 2015 election
On 2 September 2015, the party programme for the snap election on September 20 was published. The party received about 2.9% of the vote, below the 3% threshold to win any seats in parliament. In response to the result the party said, 'we lost the game but not the war'.

2023 election
Popular Unity contested the 2023 legislative elections in a coalition with MeRA25, as part of the "Alliance for Rupture".

Naming
The name of the party is inspired by Popular Unity, the Chilean political alliance led by Salvador Allende.

Policies
The party favours Greek withdrawal from the eurozone and reinstating the drachma as Greece's national currency. According to founding member Stathis Kouvelakis, a former member of Syriza's Central Committee, the new party supports socialist internationalism, pacifism, Greece's exit from NATO, and breaking military agreements with Israel.

Members of Parliament
Popular Unity had 26 members of the Hellenic Parliament prior to the September 2015 election, all of whom defected from Syriza. In alphabetical order, they were:
 * Kostas Delimitros
 * Ilias Ioannidis
 * Thomas Kotsias
 * Panagiotis Lafazanis
 * Costas Lapavitsas
 * Thanasis Petrakos
 * Stefanos Samoilis
 * Thanasis Skoumas
 * Nadia Valavani
 * Panagiotis Lafazanis
 * Costas Lapavitsas
 * Thanasis Petrakos
 * Stefanos Samoilis
 * Thanasis Skoumas
 * Nadia Valavani
 * Thanasis Petrakos
 * Stefanos Samoilis
 * Thanasis Skoumas
 * Nadia Valavani
 * Thanasis Skoumas
 * Nadia Valavani
 * Nadia Valavani
 * Nadia Valavani
 * Nadia Valavani