Romanian Socialist Party (present-day)

The Romanian Socialist Party (Romanian: Partidul Socialist Român) is a political party in Romania formed as the Socialist Alliance Party (PAS) in 2003. It developed out of the wing of the Socialist Party of Labour (PSM) that objected to the merger of PSM with the Social Democratic Party in July 2003 and wanted the PSM to continue as a socialist party. The Romanian authorities did not recognize this group as part of PSM, and instead it took the name Socialist Alliance Party. After absorbing the United Left Party in 2009, the party merged into the Socialist Alternative Party in late 2013. In late 2014, the merged party changed its name to the Socialist Party of Romania, replacing the party of the same name defunct since 2013. The unregistered present-day Romanian Communist Party (which has since gained registration after changing its name to the Communitarian Party of Romania) had argued that the SPR is a pseudo-communist party.[1]

Romanian Socialist Party Partidul Socialist Român
Leader	Constantin Rotaru
Founded	July 2003
Split from	Socialist Party of Labour
Headquarters	Șos. Olari 12, Sector 2 Bucharest
Ideology	Socialism Communism
Political position	Left-wing
European affiliation	Party of the European Left
International affiliation	International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties
European Parliament group	None
Colours	Red
Chamber of Deputies	0 / 329
Senate	0 / 136
European Parliament	0 / 32
County Council	0 / 1,434
Local seats	20 / 40,067
Website
www.psr.org.ro
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The then-PAS decided to rename itself the Romanian Communist Party at an extraordinary party congress in July 2010, placing itself in the tradition of the party of the same name founded in 1921. The renaming was however rejected by the Bucharest tribunal.

In 2013 it won 34 local seats.

The party is led by a 165-member National Committee, a 60-member Directive Committee and a 60-member Executive Bureau.

The SPR was a founding member of the Party of the European Left.