The Social Democratic Party (, PSD) was a political party in
Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...
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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.
Algeria: Information on the Social Democratic Party (SDP) (Parti social-démocrate)
Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada[Frank Tachau (1994) ''Political parties of the Middle East and North Africa'', Greenwood Press, p60] Its founders were from two main groups, one of lawyers and private sector workers, and the other of intellectuals supportive of social democracy
Social democracy is a Social philosophy, social, Economic ideology, economic, and political philosophy within socialism that supports Democracy, political and economic democracy and a gradualist, reformist, and democratic approach toward achi ...
.[ 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.][Tachau, p61] Under pressure from the Ministry of the Interior, the two factions were reunited after a meeting in January 1991.[
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
{{Algerian political parties
1989 establishments in Algeria
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Political parties established in 1989
Political parties with year of disestablishment missing