Guianese Socialist Party
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Guianese Socialist Party
Parti socialiste guyanais |
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| General Secretary | Marie-Josée Lalsie |
| Founder | Justin Catayée |
| Founded | 1956 |
| Ideology | Social democracy |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| National Assembly |
1 / 577
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| Senate |
1 / 348
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| European Parliament |
0 / 74
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| Guianese Assembly () |
0 / 51
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The Guianese Socialist Party (French: Parti socialiste guyanais, PSG) is a political party in the French overseas région of French Guiana, in South America.
It was founded in 1956 by Justin Catayée, beforehand the founder of the Guianese federation of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO). It is a separate party, not to be confused with the departmental federation of the French Socialist Party. For instance, the PSG endorsed the overseas list of Europe Ecology – The Greens, not the PS one, in the 2004 European elections.
The PSG candidate Gabriel Serville won one of the two parliamentary seats for French Guiana at the French National Assembly in 2012, the second one is held since 2007 by an non-PSG deputy, Chantal Berthelot, endorsed by various parties, among whom the PSG.
The PSG was until 2010 a major party in the regional council of French Guiana, when it fell from 17 seats to one out of 31. It controls since then only the Cayenne municipality. The PSG didn't compete as such for the December 2015 first Guianese Assembly elections after the merger of the department and the region, and the coalition list it supported, headed by deputy Chantal Berthelot from another left-wing party, got only 8.49% and was eliminated at the first round.
Rodolphe Alexandre, then PSG first alderman in Cayenne, was excluded from the party in January 2008 for presenting a list against the incumbent PSG mayor. He won the 2008 municipal election and became mayor, then won the 2010 regional elections and became president of the Regional Council, likewise for the 2015 Guianese Assembly.
French Guiana sends two deputies in Paris since 1988, beforehand only one. The electoral districts borders were considerably modified before the 2012 elections.
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