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The Socialist Democratic Vanguard Party (french: Parti de l'avant-garde démocratique socialiste, PADS; ) is a
political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...
in
Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to A ...
.


History and profile

The party was founded in principle in 1991, after having previously emerged as a faction within the
USFP The Socialist Union of Popular Forces ( ar, الاتحاد الاشتراكي للقوات الشعبية, translit=Al-Ittihad Al-Ishtirakiy Lilqawat Al-Sha'abiyah; zgh, ⵜⴰⵎⵓⵏⵜ ⵜⴰⵏⵎⵍⴰⵢⵜ ⵏⵉⵖⴰⵍⵍⵏ ⵉⴳ ...
named Socialist Union of Popular Forces – National Administrative Commission in 1983. The foundation was formalised in December 1993. In the
parliamentary election A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...
, held on 7 September 2007, the party was part of the PADS–CNI–PSU Union, that won 6 seats. The party is currently a member of the
Federation of the Democratic Left The Alliance of the Left Federation (, AFG; ; ), formerly the Federation of the Democratic Left (, FGD; ) until 2021, is an alliance created in 2007 of two leftist Moroccan political parties: the Socialist Democratic Vanguard Party and the Natio ...
, a successor entity of that alliance.


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1991 establishments in Morocco Democratic socialist parties in Africa Political parties established in 1991 Political parties in Morocco Socialist parties in Morocco {{Morocco-party-stub