Parti Démocratique Sénégalais
| Parti Démocratique Sénégalais | |
|---|---|
| Party leader | Abdoulaye Wade |
| founding | 1974 |
| Alignment | liberal |
| Colours) | blue |
| Website | www.sopionline.com |
The Parti Démocratique Sénégalais ( Senegalese Democratic Party , PDS) is a political party in Senegal . The party defines itself as liberal and is a member of the Liberal International .
When it was founded in 1974, Abdoulaye Wade , later President of Senegal, was the party leader. After the presidential election in 2000 , he replaced Abdou Diouf from the Socialist Party . Since the parliamentary elections in 2001 that followed, the PDS ruled as the largest party of the so-called Sopi coalition . In the 2007 elections, which were boycotted by the main opposition parties, the Sopi coalition won 131 of the 150 parliamentary seats in the National Assembly . Also Macky Sall , the calf in 2012 replaced by a runoff election as President of Senegal, began his political career in the PDS.
Individual evidence
- ^ "Le Conseil constitutionnel confirme définitivement la large victoire de la Coalition Sopi" , Le Soleil (Seneweb.com), June 15, 2007.
Web links
- Official homepage ( Memento of December 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive )