Gibraltar Social Democrats
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| Gibraltar Social Democrats | |
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| Leader | Peter Caruana |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Headquarters | College Lane, Gibraltar |
| Ideology | Conservatism, Liberal conservatism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| Official colours | Blue and yellow |
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The Gibraltar Social Democrats, abbreviated to GSD, is a conservative political party in Gibraltar.
Their current leader is Peter Caruana, the previous Chief Minister of Gibraltar. The GSD was the governing party in Gibraltar from 1996 until their electoral defeat in 2011.
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[edit] History
The party emerged after the collapse of the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights. In its first election, in 1992, the party won 20.2% of the vote, giving it seven seats in the fifteen-seat Gibraltar Parliament.
At the 2000 election, the Social Democrats won eight of fifteen seats.
The party merged with the Gibraltar Labour Party in 2005, retaining the GSD name. The merger was unpopular with many members of both parties, causing some high profile members to resign their membership, including deputy leader Keith Azopardi and executive member Nick Cruz, who went on to form the Progressive Democratic Party.
At the 2007 election to the Gibraltar Parliament, the GSD polled 49.33% of the vote and were returned 10 (out of 17) members, the standard number required to run the legislature under the current constitution.
[edit] Policy
The party sits on the centre-right of the political spectrum.[1]
The party supports the current constitutional status of Gibraltar as an autonomous British overseas territory and is opposed to any proposal of joint British–Spanish sovereignty. It has traditionally been less hostile in its attitude to Spain than the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party, the principal opposition, and is more open to negotiations.[2]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ "Gibraltar: Third term for Caruana". CNN. 28 November 2003. http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/11/28/gibraltar.vote.reut/. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
- ^ Donnan, Hastings (2005). Culture and Power at the Edges of the State: National Support and Subversion in European Border Regions. Münster: LIT Verlag Münster. p. 92. ISBN 9783825875695. http://books.google.com/books?id=MS25xxY2LKQC.
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