The Democratic Socialist Party (french: Parti socialiste démocratique, PSD) was a French socialist political party during the
French Fourth Republic
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, founded on 24 August 1945 by members expelled from the
French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) following the
Liberation of France
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for wartime
collaboration with the
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occupiers. These included
Émile Berlia,
Albert Bedouce
Albert Bedouce (8 January 1869, Toulouse – 4 August 1947, Paris) was a French politician. He joined at first the French Workers' Party (POF), which in 1902 merged into the Socialist Party of France (PSdF), which in turn merged into the French ...
and Antoine Ellen-Prévot
The PSD's most famous leader is its founder,
Paul Faure, the general secretary of the SFIO from 1920 to 1940. The PSD rallied the pacifist wing of the SFIO, opposed to intervention in the
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebelión, link ...
.
On October 16, 1946, the PSD joined the
Rally of Left Republicans (RGR). Until 1952, the PSD had around 6,700 members but the PSD disappeared by 1954 when most of its leaders had either died or re-joined the SFIO.
The PSD, while active in numerous French trade unions, was weak electorally due to the ineligibility of certain PSD members for wartime collaboration. However, Julien Satonnet was elected to the
Council of the Republic under the RGR etiquette in 1946. A year earlier, Satonnet had won the
Chalon-sur-Saône municipal elections, and served as mayor of the city until 1952.
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Defunct political parties in France
Socialist parties in France
Political parties established in 1945
Political parties disestablished in 1954
1945 establishments in France
1954 disestablishments in France