The People's Socialist Party ( es, Partido Socialista Popular, PSP) was a Spanish

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History

Origins

The origins of the party dated back to 1954 when the University professor,

Enrique Tierno Galván Enrique Tierno Galván (Madrid, 8 February 1918 – Madrid, 19 January 1986) was a Spanish politician, sociologist, lawyer and essayist, best known for being the Mayor of Madrid from 1979 to 1986, at the beginning of the new period of Spanish de ...

published various academic studies of a Marxist character.PSP:Historia
''La Vanguardia'', 11 April 1978, p4, accessed 23 May 2010 In 1965, working together with Raúl Morodo, he formed the Castillian Socialist Federation (Federación Socialista Castellana). Two years later, the party became the 'Partido Socialista del Interior' or the Socialist Party of the Interior, reflecting the fact that most of its members were based in Spain in contrast to the

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(PSOE), many of whose members were exiles. The party attempted to reach agreements with the PSOE, but ideological differences proved insurmountable. In

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it was an illegal underground movement on University Campuses, and it adopted the Popular Socialist Party name in 1974. Its President was Tierno Galván. That same year the party formed the Spanish Democratic Junta (Junta Democrática de España) together with the

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(PCE) and

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. It defined itself as socialist and

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and in contrast to the PSOE, which had a base in the

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movement, many PSP members were University Professors and intellectuals.

Legalization and elections

The PSP stood in the

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in coalition with a number of regional left wing movements especially the Socialist Party of Andalusia (where they stood under the name 'Socialist Unity'). Overall the PSP won 816,582 votes (4.46%) and 6 deputies.

Integration in the PSOE

In February 1978 the party began entering into discussions with other parties such as the

and the PSOE about possible future electoral cooperation. Although Tierno denied suggestions of mergers during those discussions, the party congress voted in favour of a merger with the PSOE on 1 April 1978 and this was concluded at a joint press conference between Tierno and Felipe Gonzalez, the PSOE leader in April 1978.''El Pais'' 15 April 1978
/ref> and the following year Tierno Galván was elected Mayor of Madrid by the PSOE and PCE.

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