The Galician Social Democratic Party (PGSD, ''Partido Galego Social Demócrata'' in Galician language) was a Galician political party with a

Galician nationalist Galician nationalism is a form of nationalism found mostly in Galicia, which asserts that Galicians are a nation and that promotes the cultural unity of Galicians. The political movement referred to as modern Galician nationalism was born at t ...

and

social democratic Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote soci ...

ideology. It was founded under the name of ''Galician Social-Democratic Union'' in March 1974, led by Xosé Luís Fontela and Alfonso Zulueta de Haz. The PGSD just had some relevant presence in the cities. The PGSD was part of the Council of the Galician Political Forces (CFPG, 1976), leaving the council, along with the

Galician People's Union The Galician People's Union ( gl, Unión do Povo Galego) is a Galician nationalist and communist political party, and is one of the registered political parties of Spain. The party publishes the magazine ''Terra e Tempo'', and the secretary genera ...

in 1977, due to disagreements on the acceptance of the

Communist Movement of Galicia Communist Movement of Galicia ( Galician: ''Movemento Comunista de Galiza'', ''MCG'') was a communist political party created in Galicia during the last years of the dictatorship of Franco as the Galician section of the Communist Movement, alth ...

in the CFPG. The PGSD concurred in coalition with the

Galician People's Party The Galician People's Party ( gl, Partido Popular Galego, gl, Partido Popular Gallego, PPG) was a Galician political party in the first years of the Spanish democracy. History It was founded in July 1976 as a result of the union of the Democr ...

(PPG) in the Spanish general election of 1977. The poor results (23,014 votes, 2.04% of the vote in Galicia) led to the formation of a new party formed by the PGSD and PPG, the new Partido Galeguista, and the disappearance of PGSD.

References

*Beramendi, X.G. and Núñez Seixas, X.M. (1996): ''O nacionalismo galego''.

A Nosa Terra ''A Nosa Terra'' (in en, Our Land, italic=yes) was a Galician newspaper in Galician language, first founded in 1907 in A Coruña, Spain. It has been published in different periods. Periods 1907 - 1908 ''A Nosa Terra'', was a bilingual Span ...

Vigo Vigo ( , , , ) is a city and Municipalities in Spain, municipality in the province of Pontevedra, within the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, Spain. Located in the northwest of the Iberian Penins ...

*Beramendi, X.G. (2007): ''De provincia a nación. Historia do galeguismo político''. Xerais,

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