Romanian Socialist Party (2003)

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The Romanian Socialist Party (Romanian: Partidul Socialist Român, PSR) is a political party in Romania formed as the Socialist Alliance Party (PAS) in 2003. It grew out of a wing of the Socialist Party of Labour (PSM) that objected to the merger of PSM with the Social Democratic Party in July 2003, and wanted the PSM to continue as a socialist party. Romanian authorities did not recognize this group as part of PSM, and instead made them take the name Socialist Alliance Party. After absorbing the United Left Party in 2009, PAS was renamed as the Socialist Alternative Party in late 2013. In late 2014, the party changed its name to the Socialist Party of Romania, replacing the party of the same name that became defunct the previous year. The Socialist Party of Romania would adopt a communist program; the unregistered Romanian Communist Party (later known as the Communitarian Party of Romania) opposed this and had argued that the PSR was a "pseudo-communist party". The PSR had previously attempted...

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