The Social Democratic Party (french: Parti Social-Démocrate) is a

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. The PSD was founded in 1990. Running together with the

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(UNSP) in the February 1991 parliamentary election, the PSD won 9.8% of the vote and eight out of 64 seats in the

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. The PSD's first ordinary congress began on 29 January 2000; this was the party's first congress in ten years. 700 delegates participated in the congress, and at the congress a national executive committee, composed of 19 members, was elected.

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was elected as the party's president on this occasion, while Felix Adimi was elected as vice-president and Emmanuel Golou was elected as secretary-general. Amoussou was the PSD candidate in the 2001 presidential election. He won 8.6% of the popular vote in the first round, held on 4 March 2001, and placed fourth. The second and third place candidates disputed the election and chose to boycott the second round, leaving Amoussou to face President

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in the second round, held on 18 March; he received 15.9% of the vote. In the

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held on 30 March 2003, the party was a member of the Presidential Movement, the alliance of supporters of

. It co-established inside this Movement the

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, which won 31 out of 83 seats. In the

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held on 5 March 2006, the PSD candidate, Amoussou, won 16.29% of the votes. In the March 2007 parliamentary election, the PSD participated in the

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, which won a total of 20 seats. At the PSD's second ordinary congress in mid-2009, Amoussou was re-elected as PSD President. He resigned as PSD President on 22 January 2012. The PSD is a full member of the

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.List of Socialist International member parties
.

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