The Swiss Labor Party ( German: Partei der Arbeit der Schweiz , French Parti Suisse du Travail , Italian Partito Svizzero del Lavoro , romance. Partida svizra da la lavur ) is a communist party in Switzerland , founded in 1944 .
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| Leader | Norberto Crivelli |
| Established | August 31, 1919 (as the Communist Party of Switzerland) |
| Headquarters | Turmweg 243013 Bern |
| Ideology | socialism , eurocommunism |
| Number of members | about 4-5 thousand for 2007 |
| Seats in the National Assembly | 1/200 |
| Website | http://www.pst.ch http://www.pda.ch http://www.partitocomunista.ch |
The Swiss Labor Party replaced the banned Communist Party of Switzerland 4 years earlier (created in 1919 by the left wing of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland , led by Fritz Platten ), uniting communists and left-wing socialists.
Nowadays it occupies Eurocommunist positions. Included in the European Left coalition. In some French-speaking cantons, it acts under the name of the Labor Party ( French Parti Ouvrier et Populaire ). The party branch in Ticino voted to use the old name in the canton - the Communist Party ( Italian: Partito Comunista ).
Party Chairman - Nelly Bunchu.
She showed her best result in her first elections in 1947 - 5.1% and 7 deputies. She enjoyed more significant influence in the French cantons (Geneva, Vaud, Neuchâtel), where she received 10-20% of the vote. In the parliamentary elections of 1971, she collected 2.6% of the vote and received 5 out of 200 seats. Then her success fell until she began to grow again in the 1990s.
In the 2007 elections , she received 1 mandate out of 200 in the lower house of parliament and 0.7% of the vote. In 2010, her only deputy, while remaining a member of the SHPT, initiated the creation of the Alternative Left Party in order to unite organizations to the left of the Social Democrats and the Greens . In 2015, she again received 1 mandate.
The supreme body is the congress, between congresses the party conference, between conferences the central committee, the executive body the party leadership, the highest official the president.
It has never been represented in the upper house of parliament and in the Swiss government.