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| - The party was founded in 2572. It has close connections to the defunct People's Socialist Front of Aloria and the Rutenian Socialist Liberation Front. While the founding congress was still debating the first party programme, it became clear that the party wouud espouse radical socialist and Marxist aims, methods, ideology and analytical tools. However, in contrast to the PSFA, which was highly doctrinal and militarist, the PFDS is a more 'liberal' party in respect to human rights and much more pacifist. A few months after its founding, the party participated in the 2573 elections, gaining 29 seats out of 400 in the Imperial Chamber. The party then faced the challenging question of organising its own structure. A huge majority of members voted for a collective leadership, in the form of a C
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| - The party was founded in 2572. It has close connections to the defunct People's Socialist Front of Aloria and the Rutenian Socialist Liberation Front. While the founding congress was still debating the first party programme, it became clear that the party wouud espouse radical socialist and Marxist aims, methods, ideology and analytical tools. However, in contrast to the PSFA, which was highly doctrinal and militarist, the PFDS is a more 'liberal' party in respect to human rights and much more pacifist. A few months after its founding, the party participated in the 2573 elections, gaining 29 seats out of 400 in the Imperial Chamber. The party then faced the challenging question of organising its own structure. A huge majority of members voted for a collective leadership, in the form of a Central Committee. But, because it would be hard for all Central Committee members to attend formal occasions, a Chairman of the Central Committee was also elected, who organises debates in the C.C. and represents the party at formal occasions. The Parliamentary Party also elected a First Secretary in order to organise the Parliamentary Party into an effective opposition. In the first elections, most Central Committee members espoused luxemburgist, democratic socialist, trotskyist and other anti-stalinist views. This made it clear that the PFDS was fully committed to democratic socialism, not authoritarian state capitalism. In this period, the party introduced many proposals to the Imperial Chamber which reflected this, such as calling for all forms of direct discipline to be abolished at school. The first elections brought two trotskyists to the most public positions of the PFDS: Isaac Deutscher was elected as First Secretary of the Parliamentary Party, and Ernest Mandel was elected as Chairman of the Central Committee. After the April 2576 elections it managed to get enough votes to be the second largest party in the Hobrazian parliament, gaining almost a quater of the total votes cast. In the elections for the Emperor Elect, the PFDS also managed to gain 33% of the votes cast in the second round, as the only opposition to the candidate of the First Party of Hobrazia, which held this position for a long time. In this period, the party was trying to increase its support base and end the WSS!P/FPoH coalition, which was also later joined by the Hobrazian Peoples Party, as it became clear that these two coalition parterns on their own would not have a majority. It is was also pushing to turn Hobrazia into a full republic, ending the various references and allusions to 'empire' and 'imperial' that the constitution contained. The party was also pushing for democratic and socialist reforms, aimed at expanding civil liberties and overcoming capitalism. The second phase of the party's development starts after this big election victory.
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