Democratic socialism is a description used by various socialism movements, tendencies, and organizations, to emphasize the democratic character of their political orientation.... , social democratic
Social democracy
Social democracy is a political philosophy of the left-wing politics or centre-left that emerged in the late 19th century from the socialism movement and continues to exert influence worldwide.... and labour
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The name Labour Party, Labor Party or similar is used by several political party around the world, particularly common in countries of the Commonwealth of Nations.... political parties.
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Democratic socialism is a description used by various socialism movements, tendencies, and organizations, to emphasize the democratic character of their political orientation.... , social democratic
Social democracy
Social democracy is a political philosophy of the left-wing politics or centre-left that emerged in the late 19th century from the socialism movement and continues to exert influence worldwide.... and labour
Labour Party
The name Labour Party, Labor Party or similar is used by several political party around the world, particularly common in countries of the Commonwealth of Nations.... political parties. It was formed in 1951.
The Second International was an organization of workers' movement formed in Paris on July 14, 1889. At the Paris meeting delegations from 20 countries participated.... , which was formed in 1889 and dissolved on the eve of World War I
World War I
World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers.... in 1914, consitituted some of the same parties that would later form the Socialist International. Among the Second International's most famous actions were its 1889 declaration of 1 May as International Labour Day
Labour Day
Labour Day or Labor Day is an Year holiday celebrated all over the world that resulted from the trade union movement, to celebrate the economic and social achievements of workers.... and its 1910 declaration of 8 March as International Women's Day
Women's Day
Women's Day may refer to:* International Women's Day on March 8* Myanmar Women's Day on July 3* National Women's Day in South Africa on August 9... . While the Second International was split by the outbreak of World War I, a skeleton form survived through the International Socialist Commission. The International re-formed in 1923 (as the Labour and Socialist International), and was reconstituted again, in its present form, after World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers.... (during which many social democratic and socialist
Socialism
Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating public or state ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and a society characterized by equality for all individuals, with a fair or Egalitarianism method of compensation.... parties had been suppressed in Nazi-occupied Europe
Europe
Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast.... ).
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers.... period, the SI aided social democratic parties in re-establishing themselves when dictatorship gave way to democracy in Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east.... (1974) and Spain
Spain
Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably.... (1975). Until its 1976 Geneva
Geneva
Geneva is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie . Situated where the Rh?ne River exits Lake Geneva , it is the capital of the Canton of Geneva.... Congress, the Socialist International had few members outside Europe and no formal involvement with Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages ? particularly Spanish language and Portuguese language, and variably French language ? are primarily spoken.... . In the 1980s, most SI parties gave their backing to the Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Nicaragua officially the Republic of Nicaragua , is a representative democracy republic. It is the largest state in Central America with an area of 130,000 km2, about the size of the state of New York.... n Sandinistas (FSLN), whose left-wing government had incited enmity from the United States
United States
The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U... . Since then, the SI has admitted as member-parties not only the FSLN but also the centre-left
Centre-left
The centre-left is a politics term commonly used to describe or denote individuals, political party or organisations whose views stretch from the centrism to the left-wing on the Left-Right politics, excluding far left stances.... Puerto Rican Independence Party
Puerto Rican Independence Party
The Puerto Rican Independence Party is a Puerto Rico political party that campaigns for the independence of Puerto Rico from the United States.... , as well as the ex-Communist parties such as the Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia.... Democrats of the Left
Democrats of the Left
The Democrats of the Left was a left-wing politics List of political parties in Italy and part of the The Olive Tree electoral coalition, which merged with a number of centrist and leftist groups to form the Democratic Party on 14 October 2007.... (Democratici di Sinistra (DS)) and the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique
Mozambican Liberation Front
The Liberation Front of Mozambique, better known by the acronym FRELIMO, from the Portuguese language Frente de Liberta??o de Mo?ambique is a political party which was founded in 1962 to fight for Mozambique independence, which was achieved in 1975.... (FRELIMO).
The Party of European Socialists is a European political party comprising of thirty-three Socialism, Social democracy and labour movement parties from each European Union member state and other European nations such as Norway.... , a European political party
European political party
A European political party, formally a political party at European level, informally a Europarty, is a type of political party organization operating transnationally in Europe.... active in the European Parliament
European Parliament
The European Parliament is the only direct election parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union , it forms the bicameral Institutions of the European Union#Legislature of the Institutions of the European Union and has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world.... , is an associated organisation of the Socialist International.
Morgan Walter Phillips was General Secretary of the Labour Party , involved in two of the party's election victories.Born in Aberdare, Glamorgan, one of the six children of William Phillips, Phillips was brought up in Bargoed.... 1951-1957
Alsing Emanuel Andersen , was a Denmark social democracy politician. Andersen served as the Defence Minister of Denmark for Denmark. From 8 July 1940 to 1945, he served as the vice chairman of the Social Democrats , and as the acting chairman of the party from the death of Thorvald Stauning until the end of the Occupation of Denmark in 19... 1957-1962
Dr. Bruno Pittermann was an Austrian Social democracy politician. He served as both the chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Austria from 1957 to 1967, and the Vice Chancellor of Austria from 1957 to 1966.... 1964-1976
Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm , was a Germany politician, Chancellor of Germany of West Germany 1969–1974, and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany 1964–1987.... 1976-1992
Pierre Mauroy is a France French Socialist Party politician. He served as Prime Minister of France under Fran?ois Mitterrand from 1981 to 1984 and also served as Mayor of Lille from 1973 to 2001.... 1992-1999
Ant?nio Manuel de Oliveira Guterres, Order of Christ is a Portugal politician, a former List of Prime Ministers of Portugal and President of the Socialist International.... 1999-2005
Pierre Mauroy is a France French Socialist Party politician. He served as Prime Minister of France under Fran?ois Mitterrand from 1981 to 1984 and also served as Mayor of Lille from 1973 to 2001....
Rub?n ?ngel Berr?os Mart?nez is a lawyer, a Puerto Rico politician and current president of the Puerto Rican Independence Party . A former Senate of Puerto Rico, Berr?os is a recurring PIP candidate for Governor of Puerto Rico for three decades, although not consecutively for each elective term....
Philippe Busquin is a Politics of Belgium politician and Member of the European Parliament for the French Community of Belgium with the Socialist Party , part of the Party of European Socialists and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy....
Anita Gradin is a Sweden Swedish Social Democratic Party politician and former Ambassador. She was the Minister with responsibility for immigrant and equality affairs at the Ministry of Labour in Sweden from 1982 to 1986....
Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock Privy Council of the United Kingdom is a British politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1970 to 1995, and was Leader of the Opposition and Labour Party leader from 1983 to 1992, when he resigned after the United Kingdom general election, 1992 defeat....
M?rio Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, Order of the Tower and Sword, Order of Christ , Order of Liberty, Order of the Elephant , Portugal politician, served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as President of Portugal from 1986 to 1996....
Hans-Jochen Vogel is a Germany politician.Vogel was born in G?ttingen. He attended school in Gie?en and graduated in 1943. Vogel was a Scharf?hrer of the Hitlerjugend and was conscripted into Wehrmacht service in 1943, where he served as an officer cadet for two years until the end of World War II....
is the largest city in the German States of Germany of Hesse and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants in Germany, with a 2008 population of 670,000....
Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....
is the capital and largest city of Sweden. It is the site of the national Swedish Government of Sweden, the Parliament of Sweden, and the official residence of the Swedish Monarchy of Sweden....
London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany , and is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits. The city is home to approximately 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg metropolitan area has more than 4.3 million inhabitants....
Amsterdam is the Capital of the Netherlands and List of cities in the Netherlands with over 100,000 people of the Netherlands, located in the Provinces of the Netherlands of North Holland in the west of the country....
is the capital and largest city of Sweden. It is the site of the national Swedish Government of Sweden, the Parliament of Sweden, and the official residence of the Swedish Monarchy of Sweden....
Eastbourne is a large town and borough of East Sussex, on the south coast of England, with an estimated population of 94,816 as of 2007. The area has seen human activity since the stone age and it remained one of small settlements until the 19th century when its four hamlets gradually merged to form a town....
Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
Geneva is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie . Situated where the Rh?ne River exits Lake Geneva , it is the capital of the Canton of Geneva....
Vancouver is a coastal city and major seaport located in the Lower Mainland of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest city in British Columbia and the second largest metropolitan area in the Pacific Northwest region....
Madrid is the Capital and largest city of Spain. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits in the European Union after Greater London and Berlin, and its Madrid metropolitan area is the Largest urban areas of the European Union in the European Union after Paris aire urbaine, Greater London Urban Area, a...
Albufeira is a Portugal city and a municipality in the district of Faro, Algarve region. Its name came from the Arabic language: ??????? . The city proper has a population of 19,500....
Lima is the Capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chill?n River, R?mac River and Lur?n River rivers, on a coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean....
is the capital and largest city of Sweden. It is the site of the national Swedish Government of Sweden, the Parliament of Sweden, and the official residence of the Swedish Monarchy of Sweden....
Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
The Socialist Forces Front , , is a Berber people, social democratic and secularist, political party in Algeria. It was formed in 1963 by Hocine Ait Ahmed....
The Social Democratic Party is a Social democracy political party in Andorra.In the elections in Andorra of 4 March 2001, the party won 30.0 % of the popular vote and 6 out of 28 seats....
The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola - Party of Labour is an Angolan List of political parties that has ruled the country since independence in 1975....
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation is an Armenian people political party founded in Tbilisi in 1890 by Christapor Mikaelian, Stepan Zorian, and Simon Zavarian....
The Socialist Party is a social democracy political party in Argentina. The history of socialism in Argentina began in the 1890s, when a group of people, notably Juan B....
The Radical Civic Union is a political party in Argentina. The party's positions on issues range from liberalism to social democracy. The UCR is a member of the Socialist International....
The People's Electoral Movement is a social democratic political party in Aruba.At the last elections in Aruba for the Estates, 28 september 2001, the party won 52.4 % of popular votes and 12 out of 21 seats....
The Prime Minister of Aruba is Aruba's head of government. Together with Aruba's Council of Ministers, they form the executive branch of Aruban government....
The Australian Labor Party is an List of political parties in Australia.Known as the Australian Labor Party#Etymology for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the Australian federal election, 2007....
The Cabinet of Australia is the council of senior Minister of the Crown, responsible to Parliament of Australia. The Cabinet is appointed by the Governor-General of Australia, on the advice of the Prime Minister of Australia, and serves at the former's pleasure....
The Social Democratic Party of Austria is one of the oldest parties in Austria. The SP? is one of the major parties in Austria and has particularly strong ties to labor unions and the Austrian Chamber of Labour ....
The Barbados Labour Party is the main Opposition of Barbados. Led by Hon.Mia Mottley, the BLP holds 9 out of 30 seats in the Barbados House of Assembly as of January 2008....
Socialist Party Different is the Flanders social democratic party in Belgium. It was formerly known as Belgische Socialistische Partij and Socialistische Partij ....
The SP.a-SPIRIT was a Politics of Belgium electoral coalition between the Flemish community parties Socialist Party Different and Social Liberal Party .... -alliance
The Socialist Party is a French language social democratic politics political party in Belgium. As of the Belgian general election, 2007, it is the second largest Francophone party in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives....
The executive branch of the Belgium federal government consists of Political ministers and secretary of state drawn from the political party which form the government coalition government....
The Social Democratic Party is a political party in Benin.The PSD was founded in 1990. Running together with the National Union for Solidarity and Progress in the Beninese parliamentary election, 1991, the PSD won 9.8% of the vote and eight out of 64 seats in the National Assembly of Benin....
The Alliance for Dynamism and Democracy is an opposition alliance of Benin which contested the Beninese parliamentary election of 2007.It comprised the Social Democratic Party of Bruno Amoussou, the Renaissance Party of Benin of former President of Benin, Nic?phore Soglo and the African Movement for Development and Progress of Antoine Kol...
The Alliance of Independent Social Democrats is a parliamentary party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Its president, Milorad Dodik, is the Prime Minister of the Republika Srpska....
The Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Socialdemocrats is a centre-left political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina.The party is the successor of the League of Communists of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and was enlarged by the inclusion of the Socijaldemokrati BiH party to the original SDP....
The Democratic Labour Party is a populism, social democracy political party of Brazil. It was founded in 1979 by left-wing leader Leonel Brizola as an attempt to reorganize the Brazilian leftist forces during the end of the Brazilian military dictatorship....
The Party of Bulgarian Social Democrats is a social-democratic political party in Bulgaria. It is part of the Coalition for Bulgaria, an alliance led by the Bulgarian Socialist Party....
The Coalition for Bulgaria is an political party in Bulgaria, led by the Bulgarian Socialist Party.The coalition won in the 2001 elections 17.1 % of the popular vote and 48 out of 240 seats....
The Bulgarian Socialist Party is a political party in Bulgaria and successor to the Bulgarian Communist Party. It was formed in 1990 in Post-Communism Bulgaria, following the decision of the Bulgarian Communist Party to abandon Marxism-Leninism....
The Coalition for Bulgaria is an political party in Bulgaria, led by the Bulgarian Socialist Party.The coalition won in the 2001 elections 17.1 % of the popular vote and 48 out of 240 seats....
Party for Democracy and Progress / Socialist Party
The Party for Democracy and Progress / Socialist Party is a political party in Burkina Faso .It was founded in May 2001 by merger of the Party for Democracy and Progress with the Burkinab? Socialist Party....
The New Democratic Party is a political party in Canada with a progressivism social democracy philosophy that contests elections at both the federal and provincial levels....
The Socialist Party of Chile is part of the ruling Coalition of Parties for Democracy coalition. Its historical leader was the late President of Chile Salvador Allende Gossens, deposed by General Augusto Pinochet....
The Social Democratic Radical Party is a social democratic party in Chile.The party is a member of Socialist International.The party was founded in August 18, 1994, out of a union between the Radical Party and the Social Democratic Party of Chile, both of which had received poor results in the parliamentary elections....
The Party for Democracy is a governing political party in Chile; it is social democratic in its political orientation.The party nominated, as part of the Concertacion , in the 1999/2000 president of Chile elections Ricardo Lagos Escobar, the main leader of the party, who won 48.0 % in the first round and was elected with 51.3 % in the secon...
The Colombian Liberal Party is a social liberalism-social democracy party in Colombia.The Party was founded in 1848 and, together with the Colombian Conservative Party, subsequently became one of the two main political forces in the country for over a century....
The Ivorian Popular Front , known by its French initials FPI, is a centre-left,democratic socialist and social democratic, political party in C?te d'Ivoire....
The Social Democratic Party of Croatia is the main center-left, social democratic political party in Croatia. It currently holds 56 seats out of 153 in the Croatian Parliament....
The New Antilles Movement is a political party in Cura?ao, the Netherlands Antilles.At the legislative elections in the Netherlands Antilles, 18 January 2002, the party won 5.2 % of the popular vote and no seats....
The Movement for Social Democracy United Democratic Union of Centre is a centre-left social-democratic political party in Cyprus. It is led by Yannakis Omirou....
The Czech Social Democratic Party is the Social Democracy political party in the Czech Republic.The party won the Czech legislative election, 2002 with 70 of 200 representatives in the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic....
The Social Democrats , is a Denmark political party. It is Danish parliamentary election, 2007 the second largest party with 25.5% of votes and 45 of 175 seats....
The Dominican Revolutionary Party is one of the main List of political parties in the Dominican Republic of the Dominican Republic.It has a moderate left-wing, Social democracy in name position....
The Grand National Alliance , commonly known as the "Alianza Rosada" , was a one-time electoral alliance in the Dominican Republic. The alliance was led by the Dominican Revolutionary Party and the Social Christian Reformist Party....
The Democratic Left Party is a social-democrat party in Ecuador. It is a member of the Socialist International. At the legislative elections in Ecuador, held on 20 October 2002, the party won at least 13 out of 100 seats....
The National Democratic Party was established in 1978 by late president Anwar Sadat who headed the party till 1981.After Sadat's assassination, the party has been chaired by President Hosni Mubarak and is the current ruling political party in Egypt....
The Cabinet of Egypt is the chief executive body of the Egypt. It consists of the Prime Minister and the cabinet ministers.The government has a leading role in shaping the agenda of the houses of Parliament of Egypt....
Convergence for Social Democracy is the only major opposition party in Equatorial Guinea.The CPDS is led by a President and a Secretary-General, who are currently Santiago Obama Ndong and Pl?cido Mic? Abogo, respectively....
Andrus Ansip is the current Prime Minister of Estonia; his first cabinet took office on 12 April 2005 after being approved by Riigikogu by 53 members out of 101....
The Social Democratic Party of Finland is one of the most influential political party in Finland, along with the Centre Party and the National Coalition Party ....
The Socialist Party is the largest left-wing politics political party in France. It replaced the French Section of the Workers' International in 1969....
The Social Democratic Party of Germany is Germany's oldest political party. After World War II, under the leadership of Kurt Schumacher, the SPD reestablished itself as an ideological party, representing the interests of the working class and the trade unions....
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The cabinet of Angela Merkel is the current government of Germany since November 22 2005, during the 16th legislature of the Bundestag. Led by the Christian-democrat Angela Merkel , it is supported by a grand coalition of the Christian Democratic Union , Christian Social Union of Bavaria , and the Social Democratic Party of Germany ....
The Panhellenic Socialist Movement, better known as PASOK , is a Greece centre-left political party. In 1981 PASOK formed the first socialist government in Greece's history, and subsequently ruled the country for most of the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s....
The Fusion of Haitian Social Democrats is a political party in Haiti. In the Haitian elections, 2006 of 7 February 2006, its candidate Serge Gilles won 2,62 % of the popular vote....
The Hungarian Socialist Party is a Social Democratic party in Hungary. It is the partial successor of the communism Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party , which ruled Hungary between 1956 and 1989....
part of an alliance with the Hungarian Socialist Party
Social Democratic Alliance
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Cabinet of Iceland
The Cabinet of Iceland is the chief executive branch body of the Republic of Iceland. It consists of the Prime Minister of Iceland and the cabinet ministers....
The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan is a Kurdish political party in Iraqi Kurdistan....
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Council of Ministers of Iraq
The Cabinet of Iraq is the executive of the Government of Iraq, 2006-2010 of Iraq.The National Assembly of Iraq elects a President of Iraq who along with two deputies form the Presidency Council of Iraq....
The Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan is the name of the electoral coalition first presented as a united Kurdish people list in the Iraqi legislative election, January 2005 in Iraq....
The Labour Party is a democratic socialist and social democratic political party in the Republic of Ireland. Founded by James Connolly in 1912 as the political wing of the Irish Congress of Trades Unions, it claims to be the country's oldest continuous political party....
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Israeli Labor Party
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Cabinet of Israel
The Cabinet of Israel is a formal body composed of government officials chosen and led by a Prime Minister of Israel. Its composition must be approved by a vote in the Knesset....
The Democrats of the Left was a left-wing politics List of political parties in Italy and part of the The Olive Tree electoral coalition, which merged with a number of centrist and leftist groups to form the Democratic Party on 14 October 2007....
The Democratic Party is a centre-left List of political parties in Italy.It was founded on 14 October 2007 as a merger of various left-wing and centrist parties which were part of the The Union in the Italian general election, 2006....
The Socialist Party is a social democracy List of political parties in Italy.The party was founded in 2007?2008 by the merger of six minor social-democratic parties and associations and the participation of some individual members:...
The People's National Party is a Democratic socialism Jamaican political party, founded by Norman Washington Manley in 1938. It is the oldest political party in the Anglophone Caribbean and one of the main two political parties in Jamaica....
The Progressive Socialist Party is a List of political parties in Lebanon in Lebanon. Its current leader is Walid Jumblatt. It is ideologically secular and officially non-sectarian, but in practice is led and supported mostly by followers of the Druze faith....
The Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party is a centre-left, Social democracy party in Latvia. It has a long history but is not represented in the current Saeima....
The Social Democratic Party of Lithuania is a centre-left and Social Democracy political party in Lithuania. It lead a minority government in the unicameral Seimas, Lithuania's Parliament from 2004-2008....
The Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party , abbreviated to LSAP or POSL, is a social democracy political party in the Luxembourg.The LSAP is currently the second-largest party in the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg, having won 14 of 60 seats at the Luxembourgian legislative election, 2004....
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Politics of Luxembourg
Politics of Luxembourg takes place in a framework of a parliamentary system representative democracy monarchy, whereby the Prime Minister of Luxembourg is the head of government, and of a multi-party system....
The Social Democratic Union of Macedonia is a centre-left political party in the Republic of Macedonia.It is the successor of the League of Communists of Macedonia, the ruling party during the communist regime which ruled SR Macedonia as a constituent country of SFR Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1990....
The Democratic Action Party, or DAP is a secular, multi-racial, Social Democracy/democratic socialism Malaysian political party. Though its core constituency consists of Malaysian Chinese, it also receives support from the Malaysian Indians and Malay people....
Pakatan Rakyat or PR was established on April 1, 2008. The political coalition comprises a group of Malaysian political parties, namely, the Parti Keadilan Rakyat , Democratic Action Party , and Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party , who collectively worked together as the Barisan Rakyat during the 12th Elections in Malaysia in 2008....
The Alliance for Democracy in Mali-Pan-African Party for Liberty, Solidarity and Justice is a political party in Mali.On October 25, 1990 opponents of the dictatorship of Moussa Traor? joined together as ADEMA....
The Mali Council of Ministers consists of members appointed by the President of Mali with the advice of the Prime Minister of Mali.The Council of Ministers is chaired by the prime minister and is tasked with managing government operations....
The Alliance for Democracy and Progress is an alliance of political party in Mali, that supports president Amadou Toumani Tour?. In the 1 July and 22 July 2007 Malian parliamentary Malian parliamentary election, 2007, the member parties of the alliance won 113 out of 160 seats....
The Rally for Mali is a Malian political party created by Ibrahim Boubacar Ke?ta in June 2001.In October 2000, Ibrahim Boubacar Ke?ta, the former prime minister of Mali, resigned from incumbent President Alpha Oumar Konar?'s party, the Alliance for Democracy in Mali-African Party for Solidarity and Justice , over which he had presided sinc...
The Front for Democracy and the Republic is an opposition coalition in Mali that fought the Malian presidential election, 2007 on 29 April 2007 and the Malian parliamentary election, 2007 of 1 July and 22 July 2007....
The Labour Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in Malta, along with the Nationalist Party . It is currently the main party of opposition in Malta having thirty-four of the sixty-nine seats in the Maltese House of Representatives....
The Rally of Democratic Forces is a political party in Mauritania. It is led by Ahmed Ould Daddah.In October 2000, the Union of Democratic Forces-New Era, which was led by Daddah, was dissolved by the government for allegedly inciting violence and harming the country's interests....
The Mauritian Militant Movement is a political party in Mauritius.At the legislative Mauritian general election, 2000 on 11 September 2000, the party was in coalition with the Militant Socialist Movement....
The Mauritian Labour Party is a Hindu majority political party in Mauritius.At the legislative Mauritian general election, 2000 of the 11th of September 2000, the party was part of a coalition with the Mauritian Party of Xavier-Luc Duval, which won 36.6% of the popular vote and eight out of 70 seats....
The Prime Minister of Mauritius is the head of government of the country. The prime minister is appointed by the President of the Republic of Mauritius....
Alliance Sociale is a political coalition in Mauritius. It consist of members of the Mauritian Labour Party, Mauritian Party of Xavier-Luc Duval and other smaller groups....
The Coalition for the Good of All was a Left-wing politics coalition created by the Party of the Democratic Revolution , Convergence and the Labor Party to support Andr?s Manuel L?pez Obrador as a candidate for the president of Mexico in the Mexican general election, 2006....
The Institutional Revolutionary Party is a Mexico political party that wielded power in the country—under a succession of names—for more than 70 years....
The 'Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party' is an ex-communist political party in Mongolia. The party is abbreviated 'MPRP' in English language and in Mongolian....
The Prime Minister of Mongolia is the highest member of the Mongolian government's executive arm, and heads the Mongolian Cabinet . The Prime Minister is appointed by Parliament of Mongolia, and can be removed by a vote of no confidence....
The Social Democratic Party of Montenegro is a political party in Montenegro.A minor party, according to all polls, with minuscule popular support in Montenegro, SDP has nevertheless managed to play a notable part on the republic's political scene during the last decade....
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Government of Montenegro
The Government of Montenegro is the executive branch of state authority in Montenegro. It is headed by the Prime Minister of Montenegro. It comprises the prime minister, the deputy prime ministers as well as ministers....
The Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro is the ruling political party in Montenegro.It is the successor of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia's League of Communists of Montenegro....
The Government of Montenegro is the executive branch of state authority in Montenegro. It is headed by the Prime Minister of Montenegro. It comprises the prime minister, the deputy prime ministers as well as ministers....
The Socialist Union of Popular Forces is a left-of-centre political party in Morocco. It was originally formed as a breakaway from the UNFP, a Socialist opposition party which had itself split from the Istiqlal Party in 1959....
The Nepali Congress is a Nepalese political party. Nepali Congress is credited for successfully carrying out all three political revolutions of Nepal....
The Dutch Labour Party , literally "Party of the Labour") is a social democracy political party in the Netherlands. Since the Dutch general election, 2003, the PvdA is the second largest political party in the Netherlands....
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Fourth Balkenende cabinet
The fourth Balkenende cabinet or Balkenende IV is the current Netherlands coalition Cabinet formed by the political party Christian Democratic Appeal , Labour Party , and ChristianUnion ....
The New Zealand Labour Party is a New Zealand political party. It describes itself as centre-left and socially Liberalism, and Progressivism, and has been one of the two primary parties of New Zealand politics since 1935....
The Sandinista National Liberation Front is a socialist Nicaraguan political party. Their organization is generally referred to by the initials FSLN and its members are called, in both English and Spanish, Sandinistas....
The position of President of Nicaragua was created in the Constitution of 1854. From 1825 until the Constitution of 1838 the title of the position was known as Head of State and from 1838 to 1854 as Supreme Director ....
The Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism is a political party in Niger. It is a broadly left-wing party, part of the Socialist International, and it is the country's main opposition party....
The Social Democratic and Labour Party is one of the two major Irish nationalism parties in Northern Ireland. During the The Troubles, the SDLP was consistently the most popular nationalist party in Northern Ireland, but since the Provisional IRA cease-fire in 1994, it has lost ground to its rival Sinn F?in, which, in 2001, became the more p...
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Northern Ireland Executive
The Northern Ireland Executive is the Executive arm of the Northern Ireland Assembly, the devolution legislature for Northern Ireland. It is answerable to the Assembly and was established according to the terms of the Northern Ireland Act 1998....
The Norwegian Labour Party is a social democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Second cabinet Stoltenberg and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....
The Red-Green Coalition is a coalition of Norway political party, formed by the Norwegian Labour Party, the Socialist Left Party , and the Centre Party ....
The Pakistan Peoples Party : is a centre-left political party in Pakistan affiliated with Socialist International. To date, its leader has always been a member of the Bhutto family....
The Cabinet of Pakistan is headed by Prime Minister of Pakistan and plays an important role in the Government of Pakistan, in accordance with the Westminster System....
Panama's 'Partido Revolucionario Democr?tico' should not be confused with Mexico's 'Partido de la Revoluci?n Democr?tica' with which it shares the acronym 'PRD'....
The Revolutionary Febrerista Party is a left-wing political party of Paraguay. It was founded on December 11, 1951 in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina....
The Patriotic Alliance for Change is a center-left Paraguayan political alliance consisting of eight opposition parties:* Authentic Radical Liberal Party...
The Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana is a centre-left Peruvian political party.At the legislative Peruvian national election, 2006 held on 9 April 2006, the party won 22.6% of the popular vote and 36 out of 120 seats in the Congress of Peru....
The Presidential Cabinet of Peru or the Council of Ministers is made up of all the Ministers of State. This council is presided by the Prime Minister of Peru a position likened to that of a Prime Minister of Peru....
Democratic Left Alliance is a centre-left Polish social democracy political party. A coalition of left-wing parties used this name from 1991 to 1999....
Labour Union is a Poland left wing political party. It is a member of the Party of European Socialists, and Socialist International.Labour Union was formed in June, 1992....
Portugal's Council of Ministers is a collegial body presided over by the Prime Minister of Portugal. All ministers are members of the council of ministers, and when the prime minister finds it fit, state secretaries can also attend its meetings....
The Social Democratic Party is a major political party of Romania. It can be loosely classified as a center-left party, although the right-left division in Romania is quite blurred....
The Party of Socialists and Democrats is a centre-left, social democracy political party in San Marino. It is a member of the Socialist International and its Italian counterpart is the Democratic Party ....
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List of Captains Regent of San Marino
The Captains Regent of San Marino are elected every six months by the small country's Grand and General Council. The pair serve as heads of state and government....
The Socialist Party of Senegal is a political party in Senegal. It was the ruling party in Senegal from independence in 1960 until 2000. Ousmane Tanor Dieng has been the First Secretary of the party since 1996....
in opposition
has no seats in parliament as it boycotted last elections
The Democratic Party is the main center-left political party in Serbia. It claims continuity of the Democratic Party .It is the largest political party in Serbia in terms of sitting National Assembly of Serbia, and in what respects the international arena, the Democratic Party is a member of the Socialist International and Party of Europea...
For a European Serbia ? Boris Tadic is an electoral coalition that won the Serbian parliamentary election, 2008, Vojvodina parliamentary election, 2008 and Serbian local elections, 2008....
The Social Democratic Party is a political party in the Republic of Serbia. Its President is Neboj?a Covic. It claims heritage of the old Serbian Social Democratic Party....
The Direction ? Social Democracy party ? before January 1 2005 called Direction ?, often just Smer, is a left wing political party in Slovakia, led by Robert Fico....
The Government of the Slovak Republic is the executive branch of government in Slovakia.It is led by a prime minister , who is nominated by the President of Slovakia, and is usually a leader of majority party or of a majority coalition after an election to the National Council of the Slovak Republic....
The Social Democrats is a centre-left political party in Slovenia, currently led by Borut Pahor. Until 2005, it was called United List of Social Democrats ....
The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, commonly abbreviated by its Spanish initials, PSOE , is the ruling party in Spain and the second oldest, exceeded only by the Carlism, founded in 1833....
*President of the Government of Spain**Jos? Luis Rodr?guez Zapatero*First Vice President **: Mar?a Teresa Fern?ndez de la Vega*Second Vice President ...
The African National Congress has been South Africa's governing party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in May 1994....
The President of the Republic of South Africa is the head of state and head of government under South Africa's Constitution of South Africa. From 1961 to 1994, the head of state was called the State President of South Africa....
The Swedish Social Democratic Party, , contests elections as 'Labour' Party - Social Democrats' , commonly referred to just as 'the Social Democrats' ; is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden....
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is a social democracy party in Switzerland.It was founded on October 21, 1888 and is one of the four leading coalition political party in Switzerland....
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Swiss Federal Council
The Swiss Federal Council is the seven-member executive council which constitutes the federal government of Switzerland and serves as the Swiss collective head of state....
The Constitutional Democratic Rally is the ruling party in Tunisia. The RCD is the party of president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and prime minister Mohamed Ghannouchi....
The Republican People's Party is the oldest political party in the Turkey and is the main party of the Centre-left. The party was established during the Congress of Sivas as a union of resistance groups against the invasion of Anatolia....
In the politics of the United Kingdom, the Cabinet is a formal body composed of the most senior Her Majesty's Governmentminister chosen by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom....
Democratic Socialists of America is a social democracy/Democratic socialism organization in the United States and the U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International, a federation of Social democracy, Democratic socialism and Labour Party and organizations....
The Socialist Party of Uruguay is an Uruguayan political party founded in 1910. Its main leader and spokesman was Dr Emilio Frugoni, the most prominent advocate of socialism in Uruguay....
The Broad Front or FA is a Uruguayan left-wing political party. It is led by Tabar? V?zquez, the current President of Uruguay. Frente Amplio has close ties with PIT-CNT trade union and the cooperative housing movement....
New Space is a social democratic party in Uruguay.It was founded in 1994 by Senator Rafael Michelini. It was born as a split of the People's Government Party , whose leader was the former Vice-President Hugo Batalla, when the party decided to join the Colorado_Party_ for the 1993 elections....
The Broad Front or FA is a Uruguayan left-wing political party. It is led by Tabar? V?zquez, the current President of Uruguay. Frente Amplio has close ties with PIT-CNT trade union and the cooperative housing movement....
The Movement for Socialism is a social democracy political party in Venezuela. MAS was founded in 1971 by a faction of the Communist Party of Venezuela that opposed the Communist Party's use of armed tactics....
Movement for Democratic Change may refer to:* Movement for Democratic Change , a Zimbabwean political party that split in 2005* Movement for Democratic Change ? Tsvangirai, the larger current formation of the party...
The Azerbaijani Social Democratic Party is an Azerbaijani political party led by the former President of Azerbaijan Ayaz Mutalibov. At the last elections in Azerbaijan , the party won less than 1% of popular vote and failed to gain seats in the parliament....
Belarusian Social Democratic Party (People's Assembly)
The Belarusian Social Democratic Party is unregistered political party in Belarus which opposes the administration of President Alexander Lukashenko....
The Front for Democracy in Burundi is a progressive political party in Burundi.It was formed by followers of Melchior Ndadaye from the disbanded Burundi Workers' Party in 1986....
The Dominica Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Dominica.At the Dominican general election, 2000 of 31 January 2000, the party gained power for the first time, winning 43.1% of the popular vote and 10 out of the 21 elected members of the House of Assembly of Dominica.... -in government
The Fiji Labour Party is a political party in Fiji, which holds observer status with the Socialist International. Most of its support at present comes from the Indo-Fijian community, although it is officially multiracial and its first leader was an Fijian people, Dr....
The National Democratic Congress is a social democratic political party in Ghana, founded by former President of Ghana Jerry Rawlings, who first came to power in a coup d'etat in 1979, remaining President for 19 years .... -in government
Forward is a centre-left social democratic political party in Greenland and a member of the Socialist International. It is led by Hans Enoksen, who is the current Prime Minister of Greenland.... -in government
The Working People's Alliance is a social democratic political party in Guyana. WPA was founded in 1974, as an alliance of Working People's Vanguard Party, Association for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa, Indian Political Revolutionary Associates and Ratoon....
The Rally for Mali is a Malian political party created by Ibrahim Boubacar Ke?ta in June 2001.In October 2000, Ibrahim Boubacar Ke?ta, the former prime minister of Mali, resigned from incumbent President Alpha Oumar Konar?'s party, the Alliance for Democracy in Mali-African Party for Solidarity and Justice , over which he had presided sinc...
The Congress of Democrats is a political party in Namibia, led by Ben Ulenga. It is an opposition party represented in the National Assembly of Namibia....
The Democratic Party of Moldova is a Third Way political party in Moldova. At the last legislative elections in Moldova, 6 March 2005, the party was part of the Electoral Bloc Democratic Moldova , that won 28.4 % of the popular vote and 34 out of 101 seats....
The Akbayan Citizens' Action Party is a party-list organization in the Philippine House of Representatives of the Philippines. Akbayan was successful in winning one seat in the House of Representatives in the Philippine general election, 1998 ....
The Philippine Democratic Socialist Party is a political party in the Philippines. It was one of the member parties that composed the United Nationalists Democratic Organizations that supported the candidacy of Corazon Aquino and Salvador Laurel in the Philippine presidential election, 1986 against President Ferdinand Marcos....
The Saint Kitts-Nevis Labour Party is a centre-left political party in Saint Kitts and Nevis.At the last legislative elections in Saint Kitts and Nevis, 25 October 2004, the party won 50.6 % of popular votes and 7 out of 11 elected seats.... -in government
The Saint Lucia Labour Party is a social democratic political party in Saint Lucia.In the elections held on 11 December 2006, the SLP won only 6 of the 17 seats and consequently lost power to the UWP....
The Unity Labour Party is a political party in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.At the most recent legislative elections in Saint Vincent, on the 7th of December 2005, the party won 12 out of 15 elected seats.... -in government
The Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor is a leftist political party in East Timor. They presently hold a plurality of seats in the National Parliament and formed the government in East Timor from independence until 2007....
The Democratic Convention of African Peoples is a political party in Togo.The CDPA boycotted the Togolese presidential election, 1993 and the Togolese parliamentary election, 1994....
The Republican Turkish Party is a political party in "Northern Cyprus". The party was founded by a lawyer, Ahmet Mithat Berberoglu in 1970 as an opposition to the Turkish Cypriot leadership of Fazil K???k and Rauf Denktas.... (pending consultation)
The Socialist Party of Ukraine is a Socialist political party in Ukraine. It is one of the oldest parties, . Initially a party with a quasi-Communist orientation, the SPU has developed into a left-wing party of the European sense....
The Ukrainian Social Democratic Party is a political party in Ukraine. It was founded in 1998 when the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine and Party of Human Rights were united.... -
The Justicialist Party is a Peronism political party in Argentina, and the largest component of the Peronist movement.It is led by former president Dr.... / Front for Victory
Front for Victory
The Front for Victory is a centre-left political party and electoral alliance in Argentina. Formally it is still a faction of the Justicialist Party ....
The Botswana National Front is the main opposition political party in Botswana.At the last elections in Botswana, on 30 October 2004, the party won 26.1% of the popular vote and 12 out of 57 seats....
The Patriotic Front for Progress is a political party in the Central African Republic.The FPP strongly opposed President Ange-F?lix Patass?. In 2002, the party suspended its participation in the opposition coalition....
The Organisation du Peuple en Lutte is a Haiti political party originating from the Fanmi Lavalas political movement. The OPL grew apart from Lavalas gradually during the 1990s before making a final break in 1997, when the party's name was changed from Organisation Politique Lavalas to its present appellation....
The Janata Dal is a Left-wing politics Indian political party led by former Prime Minister of India H.D. Deve Gowda. It was formed in July 1999 by the split of Janata Dal party.....
The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran is a Kurdish people opposition group in Iranian Kurdistan which seeks the attainment of Kurdish national rights within a democratic federal republic of Iran....
The Social Democratic Party is a political party in Moldova, currently led by Dumitru Braghis. The party was founded on May 13, 1990 and was previously known as the Social Democratic Party of Moldova ....
Fata? is a major Palestinian political party and the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization , a multi-party confederation. In Palestinian politics it is on the center-left of the spectrum.... -in government
Fair Russia: Motherland/Pensioners/Life , also translated as Russia of Justice: Motherland/Pensioners/Life, Justice Russia: Motherland/Pensioners/Life and Just Russia: Motherland/Pensioners/Life, was formed on 28 October 2006 as a merger of Rodina, the Russian Party of Life and the Russian Pensioners' Party.... -support president Medvedev
Democratic Society Party is a Kurdish nationalist political party in Turkey. The party considers itself as social-democratic, and has observer status within the Socialist International....
The Polisario, Polisario Front, or Frente Polisario, from the Spanish language abbreviation of Frente Popular de Liberaci?n de Sagu?a el Hamra y R?o de Oro is a Sahrawi rebel movement working for the independence of Western Sahara from Morocco.... -in government
The Yemeni Socialist Party is a political party in Yemen. It was the former ruling party in South Yemen before the unification into Yemen. Now YSP is an opposition party in the Republic of Yemen....
Fraternal organisations
International Falcon Movement - Socialist Education International
The International Union of Socialist Youth encompasses socialism, social democratic and Labour Party youth organizations from more than 100 states of the world....
Socialist International Women
Associated organisations
International Federation of the Socialist and Democratic Press
The International League of Religious Socialists is an umbrella organization of religious socialist movements in political parties throughout the world....
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs is an organization created by the United States government by way of the National Endowment for Democracy to channel grants for furthering democracy in developing nations.... (United States of America)
Parliamentary Group of the Party of European Socialists
The Party of European Socialists is a European political party comprising of thirty-three Socialism, Social democracy and labour movement parties from each European Union member state and other European nations such as Norway....
Social Democratic Group of the Latin American Parliament
The African Socialist International is a union of social democratic political parties in the continent of Africa. It was set up to provide an international forum for moderate socialists in Africa, and proclaimed that "democratic socialism" was the only possible path to African development....
The Latin American Parliament , is a regional, permanent and unicameral organism, integrated from the national Parliaments of Latin America, elected democratically by means of universal suffrage in countries that ratified the corresponding Treaty of Institutionalization on November 16 1987 in Lima, Peru, and those Parliaments whose States...
The International Workingmen's Association , sometimes called the First International, was an international socialism organization which aimed at uniting a variety of different left-wing political groups and trade union organizations that were based on the working class and class struggle.... ("First International")
The International Working Union of Socialist Parties was a political international for the co-operation of Socialism parties. IWUSP was founded on February 27 1921 at a conference in Vienna, Austria by ten parties, including the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany , the Section fran?aise de l'Internationale ouvri?re , the Independ... ("Second and a half international"/"Two-and-a-half International")
The French Section of the Workers' International , founded in 1905, was a French Socialism political party, designed as the local section of the Second International .... (SFIO, the French section of the Second International)
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