Socialist Party (Portugal)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Redirected from Socialist Party of Portugal)
Jump to: navigation, search

Partido Socialista redirects here. For other parties with similar names see Socialist Party.

This article needs additional citations for verification.
Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (March 2007)
Portugal

This article is part of the series:
Politics and government of
Portugal
Other countries · Atlas
 Politics Portal
view • talk • edit

The Socialist Party (Portuguese: Partido Socialista, pron. IPA: [pɐɾ'tiðu susiɐ'liʃtɐ]) is a political party of Portugal. It was founded on April 19, 1973 in the German city of Bad Münstereifel, by militants of the Portuguese Socialist Action (Portuguese: Acção Socialista Portuguesa).

José Sócrates, Prime Minister of Portugal, is the leader of the party. The former President of Portugal, Jorge Sampaio, is also a member of the party. The party has currently 121 of 230 seats in the Parliament.

José Sócrates obtained a landslide victory (conquered 77% of the votes) in early October 2004 for the succession of Ferro Rodrigues as Secretary-General of the party. Other candidates for the post were Manuel Alegre and João Soares in a vote by party members.

It is a member of the Socialist International and the Party of European Socialists, and has 12 members in the European Parliament.

The Socialist Party stands out as about a third of its members in the Assembly of the Republic are women.

Contents

PS poster, supporting autonomy for the Azores
PS poster, supporting autonomy for the Azores

The last Congress, where Sócrates was formally appointed party leader, was held in November 2004.

v • d • e
Political parties in Portugal Flag of Portugal
Represented in the Assembly of the Republic BE - PCP - PEV - PS - PPD-PSD - CDS-PP
Not represented PCTP/MRPP - POUS - PH - MD - PDA - MPT - PND - PNR - PPM
Portal:Politics - List of political parties - Politics of Portugal
 This article about a European socialist party is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
 This Portugal-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Party_%28Portugal%29"
Advanced Search
Included Web Search Engines


Safe Search

close

Top Matching Results

Occasionally Search.com will highlight specialized results that are based on the context of your query. Examples of specialized results include specific links to news, images, or video.

Top Matching Results may highlight information from other Search.com pages, content from the CNET Network of sites, or third party content. The listings are based purely on relevance. Search.com does not receive payment for listings in this section but our partners that provide this data may get paid for listing these products.

Sponsored Links

This section contains paid listings which have been purchased by companies that want to have their sites appear for specific search terms and related content. These listings are administered, sorted and maintained by a third party and are not endorsed by Search.com.

Search Results

Search.com sends your search query to several search engines at one time and integrates the results into one list which has been sorted by relevance using Search.com's proprietary algorithm. You can customize the list of search engines included in your metasearch from the preferences.

The search engines that are used in your metasearch may allow companies to pay to have their Web sites included within the results. To view the Paid Inclusion policy for a specific search engine, please visit their Web site. Search.com does not accept payment or share revenue with any search engine partner for listings in this section.