the sixth party platform was promulgated in 1982. this presented the party as a modern people's party that supported democratic socialism and had social justice as its highest goal. in 1983, the sp nominated lilian uchtenhagen as their candidate for the federal council - the first time that a woman had been a candidate. the parliamentary majority elected otto stich instead. part of the party demanded that the sp withdraw from the governing coalition as a result of this, but this was rejected by a party conference. ten years later, in march 1993, ruth dreifuss was elected as the first sd woman to serve in the federal council. on that occasion too, the united federal assembly did not choose the official candidate of the sp (christiane brunner), but the unofficial candidate dreifuss (the ).