Philippine Democratic Socialist Party
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Philippine Democratic Socialist Party
Partido Demokratiko Sosyalista ng Pilipinas |
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| Leader | Norberto Gonzales |
| Chairman | Norberto Gonzales |
| Secretary-General | Tet Gallardo |
| Founded | May 1, 1973 |
| Headquarters | Quezon City, Philippines |
| Ideology |
Democratic socialism Grassroots politics |
| Political position | Center-left |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colors | Red , White and Green |
| Seats in the Senate |
0 / 24
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| Seats in the House of Representatives |
0 / 287
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The Philippine Democratic Socialist Party (Filipino: Partido Demokratiko Sosyalista ng Pilipinas, abbreviated PDSP in both languages) is a political party in the Philippines. It was one of the member parties that composed the United Nationalist Democratic Organization that supported the candidacy of Corazon Aquino and Salvador Laurel in the 1986 Snap Elections against President Ferdinand Marcos.
Established on May 1, 1973, the PDSP played a leading role in the difficult task of establishing and expanding a progressive and democratic alternative to the Marcos dictatorship and to Marxism-Leninism. It made an important contribution to the mass campaigns which eventually led to the People Power revolution in 1986.
The PDSP then helped much to consolidate the newly restored democracy, especially through education and mobilization among the small farmers and fisherfolk, workers, urban poor, women, youth, Bangsa Moro, and the indigenous peoples of Luzon and of Mindanao.
Finally, the PDSP, mainly through its members in people’s organizations and non-government organizations, has helped much to draft laws and government regulations, especially in relation to issues and concerns of farmers, fishermen, workers, urban poor, women, and other proletarian sectors of Philippine society.
The Party was accredited by the Commission on Elections as a legitimate political party in 1989. The Party has always been looked upon with suspicion by the rest of the movements and organizations in the Philippine Left as it is the only member of the Left that does not trace its roots to the Communist Party of the Philippines or to the ideology of Jose Ma. Sison, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP); although many of its leaders had been incarcerated, driven underground in an armed struggle, or lived in exile in Spain during the dictatorship.
The PDSP believes that the communist insurgency and any armed struggle against the Philippine democracy has lost its moral justification after the toppling of the dictator. During the toppling of the communist regimes in Europe and Asia in 1989, PDSP held a conference with democracies of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Norway and others, meeting with new leaders of these countries. While the Sison's Communist Party of the Philippines cited alternatively China, Russia, and recently North Korea, as their model countries, the PDSP looked to Singapore, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and the Netherlands as closer to ideal.
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