Sotsiaaldemokraatlik Erakond

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Sotsiaaldemokraatlik Erakond
Social Democratic Party
Logo of the SDE
Party leader Jevgeni Ossinovski
Party leader Indrek Saar
founding September 8, 1990
Headquarters Ahtri 10a
10151 Tallinn
Alignment Social Democracy , Third Way
Colours) red
Parliament seats
10/101
( Riigikogu , 2019 )
Number of members 5,777 (2018)
International connections Socialist International (SI) observer
MEPs
2/7
( 2019 )
European party Party of European Socialists (PES)
EP Group Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (S&D)
Website www.sotsdem.ee

The Social Democratic Party (Estonian: Sotsiaaldemokraatlik Erakond) , SDE for short , is a social democratic party in Estonia . Its chairman is Indrek Saar . The party is a member of the PES and an observer at the Socialist International . Compared to other social democratic parties in Europe, the SDE stood for a more conservative policy, which was reflected in the cooperation with right-wing parties. The party (or its predecessor) was involved in the Estonian government several times (see Estonia The Coalitions from 1992 ).

history

The party was founded in 1990. In the parliamentary elections in 1992, the Social Democrats took part in an electoral alliance with the (agrarian-centrist) Estonian Rural Center Party ; the alliance won 9.73% of the vote and 12 seats in the Riigikogu and participated in the government of Mart Laar from 1992 to September 1994 and in the Tarand cabinet (Tarand himself belonged to the party The Moderates ) from November 1994 to March 1995 existed. In the 1995 parliamentary elections , Die Moderaten received only 5.99% of the vote (6 seats) and remained in opposition.

In 1996, the Social Democratic Party and the Estonian Rural Center Party merged to form Mõõdukad ( The Moderates ). In 1999 the party “The Moderates” allied itself with the conservative People's Party (which consisted of splinter groups from the Fatherland Union ). Together, the two parties also took part in the 1999 parliamentary elections (15.21% of the vote and 17 seats); the parties formally merged in autumn 1999 ( “People's Party - The Moderates” ). The party participated in government from March 1999 to January 2001 (see Laar II cabinet ).

Under the name People's Party - The Moderates , she also ran for the 2003 parliamentary election , in which she won 7.04 percent of the vote and thus only six seats in the Riigikogu (parliament). In 2004 the party was renamed Sotsiaaldemokraatlik Erakond .

In the parliamentary elections in 2007 , the Social Democrats were able to increase their share of the vote to 10.61 percent and again move into the Riigikogu with 10 seats. Until May 2009 you were represented by three ministers in the Ansip cabinet . Then there was a dispute over measures to combat the economic crisis . The social democratic ministers were dismissed, the SDE went into opposition.

With the parliamentary elections in 2011 , the proportion of votes was increased to 17.1 percent (19 seats). Initially, however, nothing changed in the role of the opposition. It was only after the previous government resigned in March 2014 that a coalition was formed between the liberal reform party and the SDE. The previous Minister of Social Affairs Taavi Rõivas (Reform Party) became the new head of government . The Social Democrats appointed six ministers in this transitional government, which will be in office until the next regular election.

In the 2015 parliamentary elections , the previous government was unable to defend its narrow majority. This time the SDE achieved 15.2 percent and was only able to send 15 members to parliament. Since the reform party had also lost votes, one had to rely on a third coalition partner to form a majority. After the coalition negotiations were concluded, the new government made up of the Reform Party, Social Democrats and the conservative IRL took office on April 9, 2015 . The SDE was represented here by four ministers at the cabinet table.

Election results

Results in the parliamentary elections
year be right proportion of Mandates space
1992 44,577 9.7%
12/101
 4th
1995 32,381 6.0%
6/101
 5.
1999 73,630 15.2%
17/101
 4th
2003 34.837 7.0%
6/101
 6th
2007 58,363 10.6%
10/101
 4th
2011 98,307 17.1%
19/101
 4th
2015 87,168 15.2%
15/101
 3.
2019 55,349 9.8%
10/101
 5.
Results in the European elections
year be right proportion of Mandates space
2004 85,433 36.8%
3/6
 1.
2009 34,508 8.7%
1/6
 5.
2014 44,550 13.6%
1/6
 4th
2019 77,375 23.3%
2/7
 2.

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