Alternative Left

After an opening party congress on 21 November 2009, in Schaffhausen, the party was officially founded six months later at the congress of Lausanne on 29 May 2010. In that congress the party presented a program of nine important political points. The third congress took place in Zurich on 5 March 2011, where party members voted to launch a national referendum blocking the flat-rate tax incentive favoring foreign millionaires which financial lobbies had sought to enthrone as a Swiss constitutional amendment. The same referendum in the canton of Zurich, originating with the Alternative List, was earlier approved in that Canton by Zurich's voters with a 52.9% majority in February 2009. The third congress was at the 30th juny in Biel with a discussion with Stéphane Hessel in the afternoon.

The national organisation got dissolved in 2018.

In total the "Alternative Left" counted six official sections:

• Alternative Linke Bern
• La Gauche Valais Romand
• La Gauche Arc jurassien
• La Gauche Vaud
• La Gauche Nyon
• La Gauche Genève

These sections consisted of a few people and did not operate as active party sections. Most of these listed sections are inactive and have always operated individually.

There are other groups, that were losely involved in the AL, but were never official members of the party:

• Alternative List Zürich
• Alternative List Winterthur
• Alternative List Limmattal
• Alternative List Schaffhausen

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