Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party
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Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party
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| Leader | Fabian Picardo |
| Founder | Joe Bossano |
| Founded | 1978 |
| Split from | Democratic Party for a British Gibraltar |
| Headquarters | Suite 16, 3 Watergardens, Waterport Road, Gibraltar |
| Ideology |
Social democracy Pro-Europeanism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| National affiliation | GSLP–Liberal Alliance |
| European affiliation | none |
| International affiliation | none |
| European Parliament group | Party of European Socialists (2004–09) |
| Colours | Red, White |
| UK affiliation | Labour Party |
| Gibraltar Parliament |
7 / 17
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| Website | |
| http://www.gslp.gi/ | |
The Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party (GSLP) is a social-democraticpolitical party in Gibraltar. The GSLP is the oldest surviving active political party in Gibraltar. Its grass roots are based in the trade union movement, as its founder and former leader Joe Bossano was the District Officer of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU). The party has been led since 2011 by Fabian Picardo.
The TGWU during Bossano's tenure was instrumental in achieving parity with the United Kingdom for all workers in Gibraltar. Bossano left the Integration with Britain Party in 1975 and founded the Gibraltar Democratic Movement (GDM), which contested the 1976 election winning four seats in the House of Assembly. The GDM became the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party in 1978 and obtained one seat, that of Bossano, in the 1980 election. At the elections of 1984, the GSLP capitalized on the Gibraltarian discontent about the way the British Government was handling the future of the Gibraltar Royal Navy dockyard, opposing the transfer of the docks to Appledore International (which involved the loss of about 400 jobs), and winning seven of the fifteen seats of the Assembly. The party was eventually in Government from 1988 to 1996.
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