The Colombian Social Democratic Party (''Partido Socialdemócrata Colombiano'') is a

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(centre-left) in Colombia. Social democracy is a political ideology that supports economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a capitalist economy, and a policy regime involving welfare state provisions, collective bargaining arrangements, regulation of the economy in the general interest, redistribution of income and wealth, and a commitment to representative democracy. In the 2002 legislative

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, the party was one of the many small parties to achieve parliamentary representation.

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