Socialistisk Folkeparti
Leader	Villy Søvndal
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Founded	1959
Headquarters	Christiansborg 1240 København K
Political ideology	Socialism, popular Socialism
International affiliation	Nordic Green Left Alliance
Website	http://www.sf.dk

Denmark

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The Socialist People's Party (Danish: Socialistisk Folkeparti (SF)) is a Danish socialist party. It was founded in 1959 in Hvidovre by Aksel Larsen, who had been thrown out of the Communist Party of Denmark because, among other things, he was openly critical of the Soviet invasion of Hungary. SF's ideological base is folkesocialisme (Popular Socialism) inspired by Eurocommunism. Country name: conventional long form: none conventional short form: Faroe Islands local long form: none local short form: Føroyar Data code: FO Dependency status: part of the Kingdom of Denmark; self-governing overseas administrative division of Denmark since 1948 Government type: Constitional Monarchy Capital: Tórshavn Administrative divisions: 36... Country name: conventional long form: none conventional short form: Greenland local long form: none local short form: Kalaallit Nunaat (meaning Land of the Greenlanders in Kalaallisut, the Greenlandic Inuit language) Data code: GL Dependency status: part of the Kingdom of Denmark; self-governing overseas administrative division of Denmark since 1979... The European Union or EU is a supranational and intergovernmental union of 25 European states. ... Image File history File links European_flag. ... This is a history of the Kingdom of Denmark and the areas comprising modern day Denmark. ... Information on politics by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hvidovre is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Copenhagen (København) on the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in eastern Denmark. ... ( D. 1972) A Danish politician. ... Communist Party of Denmark (in Danish: Danmarks Kommunistiske Parti), a political party in Denmark, was founded as Venstresocialistiske Parti (Left Socialist Party) in 1919. ... Hungarians investigate a disabled Soviet tank in Budapest The 1956 Hungarian Revolution, also known as the Hungarian Uprising, was a popular revolt against Soviet influence and control in Hungary. ... Popular Socialism (Danish: Folkesocialisme) is a distinct Scandinavian socialist current. ... Eurocommunism was an attempt in the 1970s by various European communist parties to widen their appeal by embracing public sector middle-class workers, new social movements such as feminism and gay liberation, rejecting support of the Soviet Union, and expressing more clearly their fidelity to democratic institutions. ...

The party's former leader Holger K. Nielsen resigned after the 2005 Danish parliamentary election, in which the party lost a seat in the parliament. An election was held among SF's members on April 28 between three candidates: Villy Søvndal, Pia Olsen and Meta Fuglsang. Villy Søvndal won with 60% of the votes. Villy Søvndal promises to take the party further to the left, with more critical politics toward environmental issues, social inequality, and international war. Holger K. Nielsen Holger Kirkholm Nielsen (born 23 April 1950) is a Danish politician, member of the Danish parliament (Folketinget) for the Socialist Peoples Party. ... Legislative elections were held in Denmark on February 8, 2005. ... April 28 is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 247 days remaining. ... In politics, left-wing, the political left or simply The Left are terms that refer to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism,communism, social democracy or social liberalism, and defined in contradistinction to its polar opposite, the right. ... Social inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of material wealth in a society. ...

SF is a member of the Nordic Green Left Alliance and has observer status in the European Greens. The party sat in the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group in the European Parliament until the 2004 election. Following the election, SF's sole MEP, Margrete Auken, controversially chose to sit in the European Greens - European Free Alliance group instead. The Nordic Green Left Alliance (NGLA) is a green and socialist political party at the European level founded in Reykjavík on February 1, 2004. ... European Greens is the name of the European Green Party, a political party at European level. ... GUE-NGL logo The European United Left–Nordic Green Left is a socialist and communist political grouping within the European Parliament. ... The European Parliament building in Strasbourg The inside of the building The European Parliament (formerly European Parliamentary Assembly) is the parliamentary body of the European Union (EU), directly elected by EU citizens once every five years. ... Elections to the European Parliament were held from June 10, 2004 to June 13, 2004 in the 25 member states of the European Union, using varying election days according to local custom. ... A Member of the European Parliament (English abbreviation MEP) is a member of the European Unions directly-elected legislative body, the European Parliament. ... Margrete Auken is a politician and member of the danish left-green party Socialistisk Folkeparti (SF). ... Logo of the European Federation of Green Parties - EFA The European Greens – European Free Alliance (The Greens - European Free Alliance; Greens - EFA; French: Le Groupe Verts - Alliance libre européenne; Les Verts - ALE, German Fraktion der Grünen/Freie Europäische Allianz) is one of the parliamentary groups in the...

In December 2004 the party had 7,464 members.

List of leaders

• Aksel Larsen: 1959 - 1968
• Sigurd Ømann: 1968 - 1974
• Gert Petersen: 1974 - 1991
• Holger K. Nielsen: 1991 - 2005
• Villy Søvndal: 2005 -

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External link

• Socialistisk Folkeparti - Official site