Socialist Party
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political party in French-speaking Belgium
Key facts
- Abbreviation
- PS
- President
- Paul Magnette
- Founded
- 1978 ; 48 years ago ( 1978 )
- Preceded by
- Belgian Socialist Party
- Headquarters
- National Secretariat, Bd de l'Empereur/Keizerslaan 13, Brussels
- Think tank
- Institut Emile Vandervelde
- Youth wing
- Movement of Young Socialists
- Membership 2021
- 32,000
- Ideology
- Social democracy
- Political position
- Centre-left to left-wing
- Regional affiliation
- Socialists, Greens and Democrats
- European affiliation
- Party of European Socialists
- European parliament group
- Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
- International affiliation
- Progressive Alliance , Socialist International
- Flemish counterpart
- Vooruit
- Colours
- Red
- Chamber of representatives french speaki
- 16 / 61
- Senate french speaking seats
- 7 / 24
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Encyclopedic overview
The Socialist Party (French: Parti socialiste [paʁti sɔsjalist], PS) is a social democratic French-speaking and German-speaking political party in Belgium. As of the 2024 elections, it is the fourth largest party in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives and the second largest Francophone party. The party is led by Paul Magnette. The party supplies the minister-president of the French Community (Rudy Demotte), and the Brussels-Capital Region (Rudi Vervoort). In the German-speaking Community, the party is known as the Sozialistische Partei (SP).
The PS is very commonly part of governing coalitions, and dominates most local authorities because of the extremely fragmented nature of Belgian political institutions, particularly in Francophone areas. In the years since 1999, the PS has simultaneously controlled five regional executive bodies: the Government of the French Community, the Walloon Government, the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region, as well as the COCOF, a local subsidiary in Brussels of the French Community Government, and the Government of the German-speaking Community.
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