Socialist People's Party (Denmark)
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 he among other things were openly critical of the Soviet invasion of Hungary. SF's ideological base is folkesocialisme (Popular Socialism).
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 the three candidates Villy Søvndal, Pia Olsen, and Meta Fuglsang, which Villy Søvndal won with 60% of the votes. Villy søvndal promises to take the party further to the political left, with more critical politics toward environmental issues, social inequality, and international war.
SF is a member of the Nordic Green Left Alliance and has observer status in the European Greens. Before the 2004 election, the party sat in the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group in the European Parliament. Its one member after the 2004 election, Margrete Auken, controversially chose to sit in the European Greens - European Free Alliance group instead.
In December 2004 the party had 7,464 members.
List of leaders
- Axel Larsen: 1959 - 1968
- Sigurd Ømann: 1968 - 1974
- Gert Petersen: 1974 - 1991
- Holger K. Nielsen: 1991 - 2005
- Villy Søvndal: 2005 -
External link
- Socialistisk Folkeparti (http://www.sf.dk/) - Official site
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