Democratic Social Movement

Democratic Social Movement
DIKKI, Democratic Social Movement
ΔΗΚΚΙ, Δημοκρατικό Κοινωνικό Κίνημα
Founded 1995
Split from PASOK
Ideology Democratic socialism,
Social democracy
National affiliation Coalition of the Radical Left
Website
http://www.dikki.org/
Politics of Greece
Political parties
Elections
DIKKI supporters in a SYRIZA rally in 2007

The Democratic Social Movement (DIKKI, Greek: ΔΗΚΚΙ, Δημοκρατικό Κοινωνικό Κίνημα, Dimokratiko Koinoniko Kinima) is a Greek democratic socialist political party. The party was founded in 1995 by Dimitris Tsovolas and several ex-members of PASOK, the then ruling social-democratic party.

In the 1996 legislative election, DIKKI received 4.43% of the vote and 9 seats in the Hellenic Parliament. In the 1999 election to the European Parliament, the party received 6.85% of the vote and 2 seats in the European Parliament, and was a full member of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group.[1]

After these initial successes, however, DIKKI failed to elect members to the Hellenic Parliament on two consecutive elections; it received 2.69% of the vote in the 2000 legislative election and 1.8% of the vote in the 2004 legislative election.

After the 2004 election, Tsovolas unilaterally decided to dissolve DIKKI and give the party possessions away to the Greek state. That decision led to a conflict between the party leader and the National Committee, who voted against the dissolvement; there are accusations that Tsovolas went through these actions, because he was planning to be readmitted in PASOK in the near future.[2] The National Committee went to law and the court ruled that the party is legally administered by the national executive bodies, thus it cannot cease to exist unless the National Congress or the National Committee takes such decision.[citation needed] The party possessions were returned and Tsovolas was expelled.

In the local elections of 2006 DIKKI supported many tickets led by KKE, and numerous party members (for the size of the party) were elected in local councils. Moreover, DIKKI participated in PAME, a trade unionist coordination centre closely related with KKE. Although it was expected that co-operation between the two parties would become permanent, on August 22, 2007 DIKKI announced that it was participating in the Coalition of the Radical Left SYRIZA,[3] which received 5.04% of the vote in the legislative election held on September 16, 2007.

Notes

  1. ^ GUE/NGL Site
  2. ^ P. Mantas, Tsovolas expelled his history on his own
  3. ^ DIKKI press release

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