The Democracy and Solidarity Party (), also known by its abbreviation and short name Demos, is a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...

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. It was founded in 2018 (with roots going back to 2015), and holds a

left-wing Left-wing politics describes the range of Ideology#Political ideologies, political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy either as a whole or of certain social ...

position.

History

The Democracy and Solidarity Party has its origins in the autumn of 2015 according to the party's website, which claims that Demos arose "in response to the need to organize the progressive forces, articulating a strong critique of the underdevelopment, inequality and division of the Romanian society". A manifesto published on 15 September 2016 formally created the political party. It was officially registered as such in 1 September 2018. In the 2019 European elections, the party had initially planned to send 21 candidates, but only 16 showed up. As a result, the party used intra-party

deliberation Deliberation is a process of thoughtfully weighing options, for example prior to voting. Deliberation emphasizes the use of logic and reason as opposed to power-struggle, creativity, or dialogue. Group decision-making, Group decisions are general ...

to select a final shortlist of 12 candidates. This process is thought to have improved the presence of women and ethnic minorities. On 24 September 2024, DEMOS,

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and

REPER Renewing Romania's European Project (, REPER) is a political party in Romania. It is a splinter of the Save Romania Union (USR) and is currently led by acting president Camelia Sălcudean. The party was founded in May 2022, in opposition to USR's ...

announced an electoral alliance to contest the

2024 Romanian legislative election Parliamentary elections were held in Romania on 1 December 2024. No party won a majority in the election, which saw the incumbent National Coalition for Romania, led by the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the National Liberal Party (PNL), ...

, the

Platform for Democracy, Prosperity, and Progress The Platform for Democracy, Prosperity, and Progress () is an electoral alliance of four political parties ( REPER, Demos, ACUM, and Volt) formed to contest the 2024 Romanian parliamentary election. Originally a three party alliance, Volt Roman ...

Ideology

Demos declares itself as a

party. It promotes elements such as

equal opportunity Equal opportunity is a state of fairness in which individuals are treated similarly, unhampered by artificial barriers, prejudices, or preferences, except when particular distinctions can be explicitly justified. For example, the intent of equal ...

and

poverty reduction Poverty reduction, poverty relief, or poverty alleviation is a set of measures, both economic and humanitarian, that are intended to permanently lift people out of poverty. Measures, like those promoted by Henry George in his economics classi ...

and condemns the

injustice Injustice is a quality relating to unfairness or undeserved outcomes. The term may be applied in reference to a particular event or situation, or to a larger status quo. In Western philosophy and jurisprudence, injustice is very commonly—but ...

and the

economic An economy is an area of the Production (economics), production, Distribution (economics), distribution and trade, as well as Consumption (economics), consumption of Goods (economics), goods and Service (economics), services. In general, it is ...

and

social inequality Social inequality occurs when resources within a society are distributed unevenly, often as a result of inequitable allocation practices that create distinct unequal patterns based on socially defined categories of people. Differences in acce ...

that it claims to be present in the Romanian society. The party was critical towards other parties that governed

following the

Romanian Revolution The Romanian revolution () was a period of violent Civil disorder, civil unrest in Socialist Republic of Romania, Romania during December 1989 as a part of the revolutions of 1989 that occurred in several countries around the world, primarily ...

, most notably the

Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology. Active parties Form ...

(PSD) and National Liberal Party (PNL), which are considered by Demos as responsible for the "enlargement of the economic inequalities and increasing social division" of the country. Demos considers itself the only "real" left-wing party in Romania, opposing the PSD, which Demos members accuse of not being true to the leftist ideology and deem it as "the enemy of the left".

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* {{Romanian political parties 2018 establishments in Romania Democratic socialist parties in Europe Political parties established in 2018 Pro-European political parties in Romania Progressive parties Socialist parties in Romania Progressive parties in Romania

History

Ideology

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