The current Senate composition is as follows: 20 seats are held by the Coalition of Parties for Democracy ( CPD ): Six Christian Democrats ( PDC ), eight Socialists ( PS ), three Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and three Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 17 by the Alliance for Chile ( APC ): nine Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and eight National Renewal ( RN ); and one independent leaning right.

The current lower house — the Chamber of Deputies — contains 65 members of the governing coalition: 21 Christian Democrats ( PDC ), 15 Socialists ( PS ), 22 Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and seven Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 54 from the center-right Alliance for Chile ( APC ): 34 Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and 20 National Renewal ( RN ); and 1 from the Independent Regional Force ( FRI ) coalition: 1 Regionalist Action Party of Chile ( PAR ).

The new Senate was formed in March 1917 by Social Democrat and trade union leader Oskari Tokoi.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier, former foreign affairs minister, was the Social Democrat candidate for chancellor in 2009

Four Green MPs and one Social Democrat voted against the government, but Schröder was still able to command a majority.

On 9 November 1918, the Social Democrat Philipp Scheidemann proclaimed a Republic.

The Social Democrat city government obliged in 1927 with an eight-month ban on the party, which Goebbels exploited to the limit.

A leftist coalition in the Rīga City Council elected Gundars Bojārs, a Social Democrat, to the office of mayor.

His mother considered herself a Communist, while his father was a Social Democrat, and both were committed nudists, and the young Lars went on several childhood holidays to nudist camps.

He was soon elected as a National Liberal to the Reichstag for Bennigsen's old and supposedly safe Hamburg seat, but was embarrassed by being forced to a second ballot by a Social Democrat rival, and never actually took up his seat.

Several major political parties of the pre-war era, such as the National Christian Democrat Peasant's Party ( PNŢCD ), the National Liberal Party ( PNL ) and the Romanian Social Democrat Party ( PSDR ) were resurrected.

The subsequent disintegration of the FSN produced several political parties including the Romanian Democrat Social Party ( PDSR, later Social Democratic Party, PSD ), the Democratic Party ( PD ) and the ApR ( Alliance for Romania ).

Meanwhile, the Social Democrat leaders in exile, now mostly in Switzerland, had been the glum spectators of the collapse of international socialist solidarity.

Early in her political career Halonen represented the far left wing of her former party ( Social Democrat ).

In the presidential election of 1956, Kekkonen defeated the Social Democrat Karl-August Fagerholm 151 – 149 in the electoral college vote.

* July 10 – German Social Democrat and author Erich Mühsam is killed in Oranienburg concentration camp.

In March 2002 Aimo Kairamo, the long-time chief editor of the party organ of the Social Democrat Party, resigned from Attac and recommended the same decision for other social democrats because of the left-wing minority communists ' leading positions.

In the parliamentary election later in the same year the Social Democrat government was voted out for the first time in 44 years, and the Lindgren tax debate was one of several controversies that may have contributed to this result.

Astrid, however, remained a Social Democrat for the rest of her life.

With a broader voting franchise, the nation saw the emergence of three major party groups – Social Democrat, Liberal, and Conservative.

However they were kept out of government by the centre-left cabinet formed by the Social Democratic Party of Germany and Free Democratic Party ( Germany ), led by Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt.

In 1967, after the formation of the Grand Coalition between SPD and CDU, he became chairman of the Social Democrat parliamentary party, a post he held until the elections of 1969.

The Social Democrats were outlawed, and their leaders were imprisoned or fled abroad.

On the left, the vanguard of the war of 1918 was the most radical urban Red Guards and Workers ' Security Guards from Helsinki, Kotka and Turku ; they led the rural Reds, and convinced those leaders of the Social Democrats who wavered between peace and war to support revolution.

Though Bisky's candidacy was supported by the Greens and by some Christian Democratic and Social Democratic leaders, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, after two failed votes the party decided to withdraw his nomination.

In 1922, the fourth congress of the Communist International took up the policy of the United Front, urging Communists to work with rank and file Social Democrats while remaining critical of their leaders, whom they criticised for betraying the working class by supporting the war efforts of their respective capitalist classes.

He then travelled to Berlin where at the SDKPiL conference Dzerzhinsky was elected a secretary of its party committee abroad ( KZ ) and met with several prominent leaders of the Polish Social Democratic movement Rosa Luxemburg and Leo Jogiches.

When the Social Democratic Party came into power in 1932, its leaders introduced a new political decision-making process, which later became known as " the Swedish model.

This debate parallels the discussion currently going on in the U. S., where many Republican leaders favor transforming the Social Security system, at least in part, to a self-directed investment plan.

The Nazi Party attained power in Germany in January 1933, and very quickly began a purge of Communist and Social Democrat leaders in Germany.

At a conference on the coast near Naupactus, Philip meets the Aetolian leaders and a peace treaty is concluded, ending the three-year long " Social War ".

When neither Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democrats and Greens nor a coalition of Christian and Free Democrats, favored by Angela Merkel and Westerwelle, managed to gain a majority of seats, Westerwelle rejected overtures by Chancellor Schröder to save his chancellorship by entering his coalition, preferring to become one of the leaders of the disparate opposition of the subsequently formed " Grand Coalition " of Christian and Social Democrats, with Merkel as Chancellor.

The DUP took two seats in the multi-party power-sharing executive ( Paisley, like the leaders of the Social Democratic and Labour Party and Sinn Féin chose not to become a minister ) but those DUP members serving as ministers ( Peter Robinson and Nigel Dodds ) refused to attend meetings of the Executive Committee ( cabinet ) in protest at Sinn Féin's participation.

Democratic leaders of Congress criticized him for politicizing his office because of his support for Social Security privatization

* Gang of Four in United Kingdom, founding leaders of UK Social Democratic Party

He is a hard-looking man with a head of a bull, thick hair and moustache ; not so much Jewish but peasant features would best describe his face … He knows his audience and rules over them … Factory workers long at odds with the Social Democratic Party leaders, young intellectuals, teachers, doctors, lawyers, clerks who came to his room … meet Kun and Marxism.

Major political developments in the early 1930s, chief among them Franklin Delano Roosevelt's election in 1932, gave rise to internal tensions with the Socialist Party, and a group of Socialist labor leaders on the East Coast left the Socialist Party to form the Social Democratic Federation ( U. S .).

In its first five years, IPPNW, working closely with its US affiliate Physicians Physicians for Social Responsibility and IPPNW-Russia, educated health professionals, political leaders, and the public about the medical and environmental consequences of nuclear warfare.

With revolutionary fervor in the air, the conservative church leaders had to contend with socialists ( Social Democrats ( SPD ) and Independent Social Democrats ( USPD )) who mostly held to disestablishmentarianism.

Category: British Columbia Social Credit Party leaders

Category: British Columbia Social Credit Party leaders

The Social Democratic Party of Finland had supported the losing side, and several of its leaders were refugees in the Soviet Union.

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Preliminary polls placed Morales and the Movement for Socialism in an uncomfortable three-way tie with center and right wing forces and urban majority leaders Jorge Quiroga, from the party Social and Democratic Power ( PODEMOS ), and Samuel Doria Medina, with only a few points ' difference.