Socialist Party of Labour


The Socialist Party of Labour was a left wing-nationalist political party in Romania. The party was labelled as neo-communist. It was founded on 16 November 1990. The chairman of the party was Ilie Verdeţ, former Communist Prime Minister between 1979 and 1982, under Secretary General Nicolae Ceaușescu. The PSM was a self-proclaimed successor of the Romanian Communist Party.
At the 1992 general election, the party obtained roughly 3% of votes and thus entered the parliament. Together with the Greater Romania Party, the PSM formed the "National Bloc" faction in the Romanian Senate. The PSM participated in the so-called Red Quadrilateral coalition that included Iliescu's Democratic National Salvation Front, the Greater Romania Party, the Agrarian Democracy Party, and the nationalist Romanian National Unity Party.
Later, the Socialist Party of Labour gradually lost its influence. In July 2003, the party fused with the Social Democratic Party ; members who objected to the fusion formed a splinter group, called the Socialist Alliance Party.

Electoral history

Local elections

At the 1996 Romanian local elections, the PSM won 4.06% of the total votes, placing 8th among Romania's political parties. The PSM won 120 mayorships in total, including 10 cities and towns, the latter being listed below: Brăila County