Social Democratic Party of Moldova

The Social Democratic Party of Moldova ("Partidul Social-Democrat din Moldova") is a political party in Moldova, currently led by Dumitru Braghis. The party was founded on May 13, 1990.
At the last legislative elections on the sixth of March 2005, the party won 2.9% of the popular vote, but no seats. In December 2007 the party merged with the Social Democracy Party ("Partidul Democraţiei Sociale") of former prime minister Braghis. Some representatives of the Centrist Union of Moldova joined the new party, too. They didn't agree with the decision of their leader, Mihai Petrache, to abandon the process of negotiation regarding the unification of social-democrats that had started some months before [ [http://www.azi.md/news?ID=46603 Info-Prim Neo, 23.10.2007: PDS, PSDM to merge by yearend] ] . Braghis has become new leader of the merged party. Eduard Muşuc, who was the chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Moldova before the fusion congress, has become the new secretary general of the party. [ [http://www.deca.md/?cat=art_com&id=857 DECA Press, 24.12.2007: Dumitru Braghis will lead the unified social-democrats] ]

In June 2008 Eduard Muşuc formed an anti-democrat coalition with the communists and PPCD to become president of the City Council of Chisinau. The year before the party's president Braghis was heavily critizised by the same communists when he ran for mayor. Some party members see this as betrayal and left the party for PLDM.

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* [http://www.psdm.md/ro/ Official web site]