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The Social Democratic Party (French : Parti Social-Democrate, PSD) was a political party in Algeria.

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History

The party was established on 2 March 1989 and applied for registration on 19 July, becoming the first party registered under Law 89–11 and the first legal opposition party for over 20 years. [1] [2] Its founders were from two main groups, one of lawyers and private sector workers, and the other of intellectuals supportive of social democracy. [2] In March 1990 internal tensions led to the party splitting into two factions, PSD-I and PSD-II. Together the factions received 1.1% of the vote in the 1990 local elections, winning 65 seats and gaining control of two Popular Communal Assemblies. [3] Under pressure from the Ministry of the Interior, the two factions were reunited after a meeting in January 1991. [3]

Social democracy is a political, social and economic ideology that supports economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a liberal democratic polity and a capitalist economy. The protocols and norms used to accomplish this involve a commitment to representative and participatory democracy; measures for income redistribution and regulation of the economy in the general interest; and welfare state provisions. Social democracy thus aims to create the conditions for capitalism to lead to greater democratic, egalitarian and solidaristic outcomes. Due to longstanding governance by social democratic parties and their influence on socioeconomic policy development in the Nordic countries, in policy circles social democracy has become associated with the Nordic model in the latter part of the 20th century.

In the 1991 parliamentary elections, the PSD received 0.4% of the vote, failing to win a seat, although the results were later annulled. It also failed to win a seat in the 1997 parliamentary elections.

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References

  1. ↑ Algeria: Information on the Social Democratic Party (SDP) (Parti social-démocrate) Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
  2. 1 2 Frank Tachau (1994) Political parties of the Middle East and North Africa, Greenwood Press, p60
  3. 1 2 Tachau, p61
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