The Socialist Alliance Party is a political party

Political party

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 in Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

. It developed out of the wing of the Socialist Party of Labour

Socialist Party of Labour

The Socialist Party of Labour was a socialist-nationalist political party in Romania. The party has also been labelled as neo-communist. It was founded on 16 November, 1990. The chairman of the party was Ilie Verdeţ, former premier under Nicolae Ceauşescu...

 (PSM) that objected to the merger of PSM with the Social Democratic Party

Social Democratic Party (Romania)

The Social Democratic Party is the major social-democratic political party in Romania. It was formed in 1992, after the post-communist National Salvation Front broke apart. It adopted its present name after a merger with a minor social-democratic party in 2001. Since its formation, it has always...

 in July 2003 and wanted PSM to continue to exist as a Marxist

Marxism

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 party. Romanian authorities did not recognize this group as PSM, and instead it took the name PAS (Socialist Alliance Party).

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

Romanian Communist Party

The Romanian Communist Party was a communist political party in Romania. Successor to the Bolshevik wing of the Socialist Party of Romania, it gave ideological endorsement to communist revolution and the disestablishment of Greater Romania. The PCR was a minor and illegal grouping for much of the...

 that ruled Romania under the leadership of Nicolae Ceauşescu

Nicolae Ceausescu

Nicolae Ceaușescu was a Romanian Communist politician. He was General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and as such was the country's second and last Communist leader...

 from 1965 to 1989. The renaming was however rejected by the Bucharest

Bucharest

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 tribunal.

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

PAS is a founding member of the Party of the European Left

Party of the European Left

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.