with increasing power in parliament, the party now also demanded membership of the government, but their candidate in 1929 was not elected to the federal council. on the other hand, in 1933, the party managed to enter the executive at a cantonal level. genf was the first canton to have a 'red' government, with léon nicole as president. in the fourth party platform, promulgated in 1935, the sp rejected the idea of the 'dictatorship of the proletariat,' but the creation of a socialist society on "free and consensual foundations" remained the party's goal.