Democratic Solidarity (Pacifica)
Democratic Solidarity Demokratishe Solidaritat | |
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| Abbreviation | DS |
| Chairman | Muhammad Malik |
| Secretary-General | Anwar Khalil |
| Founded | August 22, 1998 |
| Split from | Democratic Party |
| Newspaper | Voran! |
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| Political position | Centre to Centre-Right |
Democratic Solidarty (Sugovian: Demokratishe Solidaritat), abbreviated DS, is a centrist-democratic political party in Sugovia. It is the largest political party in the Sugovian Volkstag. The party won its first electoral victory during the 1999 Sugovian elections and the party played a key role in government ever since.
The party was founded by several former members of the Sugovian Democratic Party (DP) following its collapse in the 1998-1999 Sugovian political crisis. Founding members included Abdullah Azwar, Harun Rashid, Saddam Noor Said, Ibrahim von Osnabrück, Gottfred Frick, Jan Mayer, and Karl von Guldhaus. Democratic Solidarity won its first election in 1999, where many voters of the old Democratic Party saw Democratic Solidarity as the successor of the DP. It governed in a coalition alongside another successor party of DP, the Sugovian People's Party. When the SVP won the 2007 Sugovian elections, DS ruled as a member of the coalition. DS won its second election in 2011, 2015, and again in 2019. Since 2015, DP has governed as part of the National Coalition alongside the SVP and the Freedom Party of Sugovia (FPS).