The Social Democratic Institutional Bloc (, or BIS) is a

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and

left-wing nationalist Left-wing nationalism or leftist nationalism, also known as social nationalism, is a form of nationalism based upon national self-determination, popular sovereignty, national self-interest, and left-wing political positions such as social eq ...

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in the

Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with ...

History

Established in 1989,Steven Levitsky, James Loxton, Brandon Van Dyck & Jorge I. Domínguez (2016
''Challenges of Party-Building in Latin America''
p40 it first contested national elections in

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson Ma ...

when it was part of a

Dominican Revolutionary Party The Dominican Revolutionary Party ( es, link=no, Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, PRD) is a political party in the Dominican Republic. Traditionally a left-of-centre party and social democratic in nature, the party has shifted since the 2000 ...

-led alliance that won the Congressional elections.

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(2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p256 It was again part of the winning PRD bloc in the

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, before switching its allegiance to the

Dominican Liberation Party The Dominican Liberation Party (Spanish: Partido de la Liberación Dominicana, referred to here by its Spanish acronym, the PLD) is a political party in the Dominican Republic. Founded in 1973 by former president Juan Bosch, the party, along ...

for the

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. In the

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it was part of the victorious

Progressive Bloc The Progressive Bloc () is an electoral alliance in the Dominican Republic. The alliance is led by the Dominican Liberation Party and gained an absolute majority in the 16 May 2006 legislative election. Political party alliances in the Dom ...

. In the 2010 parliamentary elections the party won a seat in the Chamber of Deputies. In the

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it lost its seat in the House, but won a seat in the Senate. The party retained its Senate seat in the

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and won two seats in the Chamber.

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History

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