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Abel Pacheco

On 7 April 2002, in the second round – the first time the mechanism had been used since the rules were introduced – Pacheco got 58% of the vote, beating Rolando Araya of the social democratic PLN by a narrow margin.

Battle of Ryesgade

In the 1970s, the Copenhagen City Council, led by a social democratic mayor, Egon Weidekamp, had begun a process of rehousing for people living in the poor areas of Copenhagen.

British Columbia general election, 1986

Social Credit coincidentally won 12 additional seats, while the social democratic New Democratic Party, led by Bob Skelly, won the same number it had in the previous election.

Canwell Committee

In 1935 there emerged an organization of liberals and social democratic supporters of the New Deal policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the Commonwealth Builders.

Carl Legien

Carl Legien (1 December 1861 – 26 December 1920) was a German unionist, moderate Social Democratic politician and first President of the International Federation of Trade Unions.

Constantinos Speras

As soon as the Congress opened, Speras proposed the withdrawal of GSEE from the Trade-Union International of Amsterdam, a social democratic organization.

Democratic Party of Kosovo

It was originally a social democratic party coming out of demilitarized KLA after the war with most of the leadership being former members of PMK, but during its congress on January 2013, it positioned itself as a center-right party.

Ebbe Carlsson

Nils "Ebbe" Knut Carlsson (28 September 1947 – 3 August 1992 in Stockholm) was a Swedish journalist and publisher with connections within the Social Democratic leadership and the Cabinet of Sweden.

Erhard Eppler

Erhard Eppler (born 9 December 1926) is a German Social Democratic politician and founder of the GTZ.

Fritz Kater

Kater was one of the founders of the Magdeburger Volksstimme, a social democratic newspaper started soon after the sunset of the Anti-Socialist Laws.

Henning Voscherau

Henning Voscherau (born 13 August 1941 in Hamburg) is a German notary and Social Democratic politician.

Independent Fianna Fáil

He sat in the Technical Group of Independents which was a technical alliance of mainly left wing MEPs who were not allied with either the Soviet influenced Communist parties or the mainstream Social Democratic parties.

Kerttu Nuorteva

She was to make contact with the Social Democratic politician Väinö Tanner.

Louis Kugelmann

Louis Kugelmann, or Ludwig Kugelmann (February 19, 1828, Lemförde - January 9, 1902 Hannover) was a German gynecologist, social democratic thinker and activist, and confidant of Marx and Engels.

Miguel Figueroa

Under the leadership of general secretary George Hewison (1988–92), the leadership of the CPC and a segment of its general membership began to abandon Marxism-Leninism as the basis of the Party's revolutionary perspective, and ultimately moved to liquidate the Party itself, seeking to replace it with a left, social democratic entity.

Opinion polling in the Brazilian presidential election, 2010

In the election, Brazilian citizens eligible to vote chose their successor to then-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, of the democratic socialist/social democratic Workers' Party.

Penzberg

In order to follow Hitler`s "scorched earth" policy the local Nazi leaders wanted to blow up the coal mine which was the economic life blood of the town (The End by Ian Kershaw - p344), so, on 28 April 1945 Hans Rummer (the social democratic mayor of Penzberg until the Nazi takeover in 1933) and others deposed the Nazi mayor.

Post-communism

In most of the countries in Eastern Europe, following the fall of communist-led governments in 1989, the communist parties split in two factions: a reformist Social Democratic party and a new, less reform-oriented Communist Party.

Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat

Sensing an opportunity, a coalition of opposition parties, including the National Democrats and Social Democratic party, nominated Ochirbat as their candidate.

Raed Arafat

In late 2005, his project to have SMURD function as an additional rescue service at a county level was passed into law, but raised opposition from the physician and Social Democratic politician Sorin Oprescu, who had drafted an alternative proposal.

Recognition of same-sex unions in Germany

It was drafted by Volker Beck from The Greens and was approved under the Green/Social Democratic coalition government.

Sergiu Cunescu

Sergiu Cunescu (March 16, 1923—March 16, 2005) was a Romanian social democratic politician, the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Romania (PSDR) between 1990 and 2001.

Sten Heckscher

Sten Heckscher (born 29 July 1942 in Stockholm) is a Swedish lawyer and Social Democratic politician.


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2007–09 university protests in France

Initially, however, the opposition suffered a severe setback when the social-democratic student's union UNEF expressed its approval of the proposed law, once the idea of a Numerus Clausus for the Master's course had been abandoned.

Alain J. P. Belda

An Icelandic social-democratic member of parliament, Helgi Hjörvar, who is on the board of Landsvirkjun, challenged authorities to reveal the real price and thus "clear the air" surrounding the project—the dam and the smelter.

Antisemitism in Sweden

Jewish community officials susbsequently sent a letter to the Social Democratic leader Stefan Löfven condemning what Reepalu had said.

Arnaldo Cézar Coelho

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

Bílovec

Bílovec is the birthplace of tennis players Květa Peschke and Petra Kvitová, internationally respected architect Emil Prikryl and Sudeten German social democratic politician Hugo Schmidt (1844–1907).

Borgström

Claes Borgström (born 1944), Swedish lawyer and Social Democratic politician

Börje

Börje Vestlund (born 1960) a Swedish social democratic politician

Bundism

Bundism was an important component of the social democratic movement in the Russian empire until the Russian Revolution of 1917; the Bundists initially opposed the October Revolution, but ended up supporting it due to the anti-Jewish pogroms by the White Army during the Russian Civil War.

Carin

Carin Jämtin (born 1964), a Swedish Social Democratic politician

Chilean presidential election, 1952

Alfonso was the candidate of the Radical Party, and was also supported by the social democratic parties.

Dalarnas Tidningar

The newspapers of Dalarnas Tidningar group have a combined circulation of 65,000 copies (2005), while their main competitor Dala-Demokraten (social-democratic) has 18,600 (2007), according to Tidningsstatistik AB.

Democratic Convergence of Catalonia

During the decade of the late 70s and 80s it claimed a social-democratic strand within its ranks, namely personified in militants such as Ramon Trias Fargas or Miquel Sellarès.

Greider

Göran Greider (born 1959), Swedish social democratic journalist, author and poet

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.

Hermann Ude

Prior to the German federal election, 2013 in summer, German press reported that Hermann Ude allegedly tried to blackmail Peer Steinbrück, the social-democratic candidate for the German chancellorship.

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.

Hungarian Social Democratic Party

In 2007 and 2008, further defections from the MSZP to the MSZDP in Óbuda and Zugló resulted in some pressure to more clearly define an independent social democratic perspective to differentiate the party from the MSZP.

Ida Crouch-Hazlett

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

Jiří Šlégr

Although the Social Democrats won the elections, they found themselves isolated and a right-wing government led by Petr Nečas was formed instead, forcing the Social Democratic Chairman, Jiří Paroubek, to resign.

Krister

Krister Örnfjäder (born 1952), Swedish social democratic politician

Kurt Schumacher

Kurt Schumacher (13 October 1895 – 20 August 1952), was a German social democratic politician, who served as chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1946 and was the first Leader of the Opposition in the West German Bundestag from 1949 until his death.

Kurt Vieweg

In this role, Vieweg designed, within the framework of the existing Soviet policy on Germany, several agricultural programmes, including some for the whole of Germany, influenced by German and Scandinavian social democratic programmes, but also using ideas from the Reichsnährstand, the agricultural regulatory body from the Nazi period.

Labour Party leadership election, 2011

The Social Democratic and Labour Party leadership election, 2011 refers to the leadership election that took place in Northern Ireland's Social Democratic and Labour Party following a challenge to the leadership of Margaret Ritchie

Markström

Elisebeht Markström, (born 1955), Swedish social democratic politician who has been a member of the Riksdag since 1995

Max Fechner

Fechner participated in the social-democratic resistance group led by Franz Künstler, and was jailed in 1933–1934 and 1944–1945 by the Nazi regime.

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.

Party of European Socialists

The Party of European Socialists (PES) is a social-democratic European political party.

Post-communism

The newly created Social Democratic parties were generally larger and more powerful than the remaining communist parties; only in Russia, Moldova, and the Czech Republic did the Communist Party remain a significant force.

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

Red-green alliance, an alliance of "red" social democratic or democratic socialist parties with "green" environmentalist parties

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.

Rudolf Nilsen

A child of the working class, Nilsen became part of the left-wing revolutionary movement and joined the organisation Norges Socialdemokratiske Ungdomsforbund (Social Democratic Youth League of Norway), the youth league of the Norwegian Labour Party.

Sahlin

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

Sardinian Action Party

The party was originally founded in April 1921 and was re-organized after World War II by Emilio Lussu, secretary for Southern Italy of the Action Party during the war, and other veterans from the Sassari brigade, a social-democratic group of the Italian resistance movement.

Shigeno

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

Social Patriotism

At the International Socialist Conference at Zimmerwald the social patriots were identified as "the openly patriotic majority of the formerly Social-Democratic leaders" in Germany, as well as the group around Kautsky.

Socialist Unity

Socialist Unity (Italy), a social-democratic alliance of parties which contested the Italian general election of 1948

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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

Union 55+

Some of the party's founders had been active within other parties such as the social-democratic PvdA and the socialist SP, but they felt that the larger parties neglected the interests of the elderly.

Valdostan Union

In the 1968 regional election UV won only 16.7% of the vote (RV 5.4%), while in 1973, after the split of the social-democratic faction, the Progressive Valdostan Union (UPV), UV stopped at 11.5%, damaged both by the result of UPV (6.7%) and RV (1.6%), as well as by the success of the Popular Democrats (22.4%), born by the split from DC of the internal left.

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.

Young Social Democrats

Young Social Democrats (Czech Republic), a social democratic youth organization in the Czech Republic and a member of the International Union of Socialist Youth