title: Socialist Democracy (Spain)
text: # Socialist Democracy (Spain)
  
  Socialist Democracy (Spanish: Democracia Socialista, DS) was a Spanish political party of socialist ideology founded in 1990 by Ricardo García Damborenea, the ex-leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) in the province of Biscay.
  
  ## History
  
  The party was formed after García Damborenea was expelled from the PSOE for trying to create an "internal current" and "[parallel] structure" of the same name. In 1992 the party joined the Coalition for a New Socialist Party, which failed to gain any representation at the national or regional level.
  
  ## Elections
  
  * Andalusian regional election, 1990: 14,495 votes (0.53%).
  * Basque regional election, 1990: 5.023 votos (0.49%).
  * Valencian regional election, 1991: 5.207 votos (0.26%).
  * Local elections, 1991: 8.747 votos (0.05%). 4 municipal councillors.
  