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Gibraltar Social-Democrats

The Gibraltar Social-Democrats (GSD) are a political party operating in Gibraltar. They support the current constitutional status of Gibraltar and are opposed to moves towards joint British-Spanish sovereignty over Gibraltar, although they have traditionally been more concilliatory in their attitude to Spain than the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party, their prinicpal opposition.

Despite containing the term Social-Democrat in their party name, they are not aligned on the political left, as is common for most parties with such a name. They are in fact a conservative party, operating on a moderate right of centre platform. Economically they support the reduction in taxation and duties for business.

Their current leader is Peter Caruana.

At the 2003 election to the Gibraltar House of Assembly, the GSD polled 51.5% of the vote and returned 8 (out of 15) members.

External link

• Social-Democrats Website

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