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5 unusual facts about Social Democratic Party


Claes Borgström

In 2013, citing his dissatisfaction with what he refers to as the right-leaning changes in the Social Democratic Party, Borgström changed his party membership to the Swedish Left Party.

Eddie Meduza

Sometimes they were also politically oriented, many aimed against the Swedish Government in power at the time Swedish Moderaterna/Centern/Folkpartiet and Swedish Social Democrats (Conservativ resp. Labour-parties).

Luis A. Eguiguren

He was the director of the General Archive (File) of the Nation (1914), Alderman of Lima (1914-1920), Mayor of Lima (1930), President of the Constituent Congress (1930-1932), founder and leader of the Social Democratic Party.

Shlomo Shafir

His historical publications explored the German-Israeli relationship, particularly between German social democracy Social Democratic Party, the Jewish world, and Israel, as well as relations between the United States, Israel, and Germany since 1945.

Unidad Popular

Succeeding to the FRAP left-wing coalition, it originally comprised most of the Chilean Left: the Socialist Party, the Communist Party, the Radical Party, the Social Democratic Party (Chile), and MAPU (Movimiento de Acción Popular Unitario).


2010 Dresden anti-fascist blockade

Supporters of Dresden Without Nazis include local and regional anti-fascist groups, the nationwide anti-fascist associations "No pasarán!" and "VVN-BdA", artists such as Konstantin Wecker and Die Toten Hosen, politicians from the Left Party, the Green Party and the Social Democratic Party and leading members of trade unions.

Alexandru Mironov

A former member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and Counsel for President Ion Iliescu, Mironov was Minister for Youth and Sport in 1993-1996.

Andreas Bausewein

Andreas Bausewein (born 5 May 1973 in Erfurt) is a German politician (Social Democratic Party) and mayor of Erfurt.

Anti-communist mass killings

On 5 May 1919 twelve workers (most of them members of the Social Democratic Party, SPD) were arrested and killed by members of Freikorps Lützow in Perlach near Munich, based on a tip from a local cleric saying they were communists.

Björn Böhning

Björn Böhning (born 2 June 1978, Geldern, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German politician, representative of the Social Democratic Party.

Brandenburg state election, 2009

Entering the election, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) governed together in a grand coalition headed by Minister-President Matthias Platzeck (SPD).

Buchenwald Resistance

The main members were Hermann Brill of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) as chairman, Dr. Werner Hilpert from the Zentrumspartei, later the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Ernst Thape from the SPD and Walter Wolf of the Communist Party (KPD).

Constitutional conventions of the United Kingdom

This convention was not respected during the 1987 General Election, when both the Labour Party and the Social Democratic Party fielded candidates against the Conservative Speaker, Bernard Weatherill, who was MP for Croydon North East.

Damião Vaz d'Almeida

Damião Vaz d'Almeida (born 28 April 1951) is a former Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe and vice-president of the Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe-Social Democratic Party (MLSTP-PSD).

Demographics of Austria

The Social Democratic Party long ago shed its anticlerical stance.

Förbifart Stockholm

The Centre Party, Liberal People's Party, Christian Democrats, Moderate Party, and Social Democratic Party were in 2010 supportive of the road project, while the Green Party and Left Party were opposed to it.

Frederick Brockhausen

While working on the German island of Föhr in North Frisia, he joined both the Social Democratic Party and the cigarmakers' union.

Frivolous political party

In the UK, the 1990 by-election in Bootle derailed David Owen's new Social Democratic Party after their candidate received less votes than the Monster Raving Loony Party.

Gabriel Oprea

A member of the National Union for the Progress of Romania and a former member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), he has been a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Ilfov County since 2004.

Graham Page

He died in office in 1981 and was replaced in parliament by the first Social Democratic Party member to be elected, the former Labour Education Minister Shirley Williams.

Heinz Traimer

His clients included the automobile club ARBÖ, the electronics company Kapsch, the city of Vienna, the Social Democratic Party and private customers.

IB affair

However, according to the memoir of ex-security service chief P.G Vinges, Birger Elmér had regular contact with Palme and made his reports regularly to the Social Democratic Party secretary, Sven Andersson.

Maria Reiter

Reiter was the daughter of an official of the Social Democratic Party in Berchtesgaden.

Marian Sârbu

A member of the National Union for the Progress of Romania (UNPR) and formerly of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), he has been a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Călăraşi County (1996-2008) and Vaslui County (since 2008).

Mohammed Arzika

Arzika was the Chairman of the People's Solidarity Party (PSP), one of the political parties that applied for registration when General Ibrahim Babangida started preparing for a transition to democracy in 1991, later merging into the Social Democratic Party (SDP).

National Renewal Alliance Party

Up to 1965, there were three main parties in Brazil: the left-wing populist Brazilian Labour Party (PTB), the liberal Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the conservative National Democratic Union (UDN).

Next Finnish parliamentary election

The incumbent government is formed by a six party coalition, composed of the National Coalition Party, Social Democratic Party, Left Alliance, Green League, Swedish People's Party and the Christian Democrats as well as the MP for Åland.

Ovidiu Sincai Social Democratic Institute

The institute is viewed as one of Social Democratic Party, (Partidul Social Democrat - PSD).

Paddy Webb

He then played a major role in the 1913 "Unity Conference", in which the Socialist Party and the more moderate United Labour Party merged to form the Social Democratic Party.

Parliamentwatch

In Bremen, candidates of the Social Democratic Party (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, SPD) and The Left (Die Linke) launched a boycott against the project because right-wing candidates had not been excluded.

Peter Christian Knudsen

Peter Christian Knudsen (in Danish known as P. Knudsen) (1848, Randers – 1910, Copenhagen) was the leader of the Danish Social Democratic party from 1882 to 1910.

Portuguese presidential election, 2006

The result was a victory in the first round for Aníbal Cavaco Silva of the Social Democratic Party candidate, the former Prime Minister, won 50.54 percent of the vote in the first round, just over the majority required to avoid a runoff election.

Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Prime Minister from 1985 to 1995, supported by the Social Democratic Party and by the People's Party;

Recognition of same-sex unions in Andorra

On 21 April 2009, Jaume Bartumeu, leader of the Social Democratic Party, announced that, if the party won the 2009 elections, it would open up the debate on same-sex marriage in Andorra.

Referendums in Sweden

(Suggestion of the Social Democratic Party, also backed by the Communist Party and the Trade Union Confederation)

Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 2011

In the 2006 election, Minister-President Kurt Beck and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) won an outright majority.

Second Brazilian Republic

Two of them were pro-Vargas — the Brazilian Labour Party (Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro, PTB) to the left and the Social Democratic Party (Partido social Democrático, PSD) in the center — and another anti-Vargas, the rightist National Democratic Union (União Democrática Nacional, UDN).

Serbian parliamentary election, 2007

#Party of United Pensioners of Serbia-Social Democratic Party - the SDP of Nebojša Čović ran in the election together with PUPS led by Jovan Krkobabić.

Siegfried Lenz

Together with Günter Grass, he became engaged with the Social Democratic Party and aided the Ostpolitik of Willy Brandt.

Steffen Reiche

Steffen Reiche (born June 27, 1960) is a German politician, representative of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Voitto Hellstén

From 1962 to 1970, Voitto Hellsten was a member of the Finnish parliament, where he represented the Social Democratic Party.

Walter Arendt

Walter Arendt (born 17 January 1925 in Heessen; died 7 March 2005 in Bornheim) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Warrington by-election, 1981

The Social Democratic Party (SDP) was formed by prominent figures on the right of the Labour Party in early 1981, known as the "Gang of Four" – Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Bill Rodgers.

Werner Pidde

He is a member of the Social Democratic Party's delegation in the Landtag of Thuringia.

Wilhelmine Kähler

Wilhelmine Kähler (née Moss) (3 April 1864, Kellinghusen, Duchy of Holstein  – 22 February 1941, Bonn) was a German politician, representative of the Social Democratic Party, and labor activist.

Willi Becker

Willi Becker (January 11, 1918 in Wallmenroth – January 25, 1977 in Düsseldorf) was a German politician, representative of the Social Democratic Party.

Wolfgang Jörg

Wolfgang Jörg (born 1963) is a German politician, representative of the Social Democratic Party.

Wolfgang Jüttner

Wolfgang Jüttner (born 1948) is a German politician, representative of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).


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Arnaldo Cézar Coelho

Coelho's brother is Ronaldo Cezar Coelho, a representative and founder of the Social Democratic Party in Brazil (PSDB).

Bloc of Left and Center-left Forces

The creation of the bloc made ex-President of Ukraine Kravchuk leave the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united), Kravchuk declared he also was indignant because the political council of the party decided to accomplish that behind the closed doors in non-democratic order.

Buzludzha

The Buzludzha Monument on the peak was built by the Bulgarian communist regime to commemorate the events in 1891 when the socialists led by Dimitar Blagoev assembled secretly in the area to form an organised socialist movement with the founding of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party, a fore-runner of the Bulgarian Communist Party.

Daniar Usenov

After President Kurmanbek Bakiyev reportedly fled the capital in a private airplane, opposition leader Temir Sariyev announced on the radio that Prime Minister Usenov had resigned after negotiations with Social Democratic Party leaders.

Graham Page

Page's death caused a high-profile by-election in which Shirley Williams became the first Social Democratic Party MP to be elected in Britain.

Hartmut Holzapfel

Holzapfel became active in Social Democratic party politics already in 1961, becoming the personal assistant of the Hessian Minister of Culture Ludwig von Friedeburg, the author of the most significant liberal education reforms in Germany of that period, in the key years from 1969 to 1974.

Heinz Kluncker

He was a member of the SPD (Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands Social-democratic party of Germany) since 1946.

History of the socialist movement in Canada

Cape Breton Labour Party, the Cape Breton Labour Party was a social-democratic party from the province of Nova Scotia represented in the Nova Scotia legislature from 1981-1988 by a former NDP member Paul MacEwan.

Ida Crouch-Hazlett

Her papers reside among the Social Democratic Party Papers of the Milwaukee County Historical Society in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Katina Schubert

In her youth (1980–1982) Schubert was a member of the German Social Democratic Party's (SPD) youth organization, but later became involved with the extraparliamentary left.

Kyrgyzstani parliamentary election, 2007

On 28 November 2007, Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev from the Social Democratic Party resigned and Iskenderbek Aidaraliyev became Acting Prime Minister until the election; the resignation was reportedly over differences between Atayev and Bakiyev.

Matthias Miersch

Matthias Miersch (born December 19, 1968 in Hanover) is a German politician and member of German social democratic party (SPD) in the German parliament Bundestag.

Mircea Geoană

From 21 April 2005 until 21 February 2010 he was the head of the Partidul Social Democrat (PSD, Social Democratic Party), one of Romania's largest parties.

Old Social Democratic Party of Germany

In the fall of 1927 the paramilitary organization Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold expelled all members belonging to the Old Social Democratic Party, accusing the party of seeking alliances with fascists.

The National Socialist newspaper Völkischer Beobachter began writing positively about the positions of the Old Social Democratic Party.

Oskari Tokoi

Tokoi was honored with a Wäinö Aaltonen sculpture at Social Democratic Party headquarters in Helsinki.

Paula Teixeira da Cruz

She is vice-president of the National Committee of the Social Democratic Party under the leadership of Pedro Passos Coelho, position she also held between 2005 and 2006, under the leadership of Luís Marques Mendes.

Recognition of same-sex unions in Andorra

General elections were held on 3rd of April, and the Social Democratic Party was defeated by the Democrats for Andorra, with Antoni Martí becoming Prime Minister.

Recognition of same-sex unions in Germany

Members of the ruling coalition of Union parties and Free Democratic Party voted against the proposal while opposition parties Social Democratic Party, Greens, and The Left supported it.

Red-green alliance

Left Ecology Freedom: initially a successor of sorts in Italy to The Left - The Rainbow, also comprising the Federation and the Greens and Democratic Left, along with former-communist Movement for the Left and Unite the Left, and the Italian Socialist Party, a centrist social-democratic party.

Sahlin

Mona Sahlin (1957-) is a Swedish politician and the former leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party.

Shigeno

Yasumasa Shigeno, Japanese politician and member of the House of Representatives for the Social Democratic Party

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Ajmal Shams, current president of the Afghan Social Democratic Party.

Tyne Bridge by-election, 1985

2. The Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate, representing the SDP-Liberal Alliance, was Rod Kenyon.

Walter Weizel

Also after World War II, he was a representative of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD, Social Democratic Party of Germany).

Water supply and sanitation in Portugal

There was a strong continuity of sector policies, despite a change in government from the Social Democratic Party to the Socialist Party of Primer Minister António Guterres after the elections of 1995.

Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem

In 1999 the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) nominated the politically unaffiliated scholar Hoffman-Riem as judge of the Federal Constitutional Court, and he was subsequently elected by the Bundesrat.