The Social Democratic People's Party () () is a

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, in

Djibouti Djibouti, officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country in the Horn of Africa, bordered by Somalia to the south, Ethiopia to the southwest, Eritrea in the north, and the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to the east. The country has an area ...

, founded in 2002''Political Parties of the World'' (6th edition, 2005), ed. Bogdan Szajkowski, page 180–181."Deux nouveaux partis politiques à l’approche des législatives 2003"
, ''Afrique Express'', N°259, 29 November 2002 . and led by Moumin Bahdon Farah.Cherif Ouazani
"L'échiquier politique"
Jeuneafrique.com, April 17, 2005 .
, ''La Nation'', February 7, 2005 . It is part of the governing coalition, the Union for a Presidential Majority (UMP). Prior to founding the PPSD, Farah was Minister of Foreign Affairs and Secretary-General of the

People's Rally for Progress The People's Rally for Progress (; , RPP) is a political party in Djibouti. It has dominated politics in the country since 1979, initially under the rule of President Hassan Gouled Aptidon. Today it is led by President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh and is ...

(RPP), the governing party. He was removed from the RPP leadership in 1996 and joined the opposition.""Le PPSD n’est pas un mouvement d’opposition ", selon M. Moumin Bahdon Farah, président du PPSD."
, ADI, 24 November 2002 . Farah subsequently founded the PPSD in 2002; he filed a declaration for the PPSD at the Interior Ministry on 26 October 2002, and Interior Minister Abdoulkader Doualeh Waïs announced that the party was legally registered on 31 October 2002. Speaking in a television interview on 22 November 2002, Farah said that his new party was not part of the opposition, expressing support for the government and stating that the PPSD planned to ally with the RPP. The party opened its first congress on 7 December 2002. In the

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held on 10 January 2003, the PPSD was part of the Union for the Presidential Majority (''Union pour la Majorité Présidentielle''), which won 62.7% of the popular vote and all seats. The PPSD held an extraordinary congress on 25 November 2004, at which Farah announced the party's support for President Ismail Omar Guelleh's candidacy in the April 2005 presidential election. The party remained part of the UMP in the February 2008 parliamentary election."14% de sièges aux femmes"
, ''La Nation'', 16 January 2008 .

Electoral history

National Assembly elections

References

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