Social Democratic Union of Workers and Smallholders

The Social Democratic Confederation of Workers and small peasantry (Finnish Työväen yes Pienviljeliäin Sosialidemokraattinen Liitto, TPSL, 1972 at Socialist Confederation of Workers and small peasantry, Työväen yes Pienviljelijäin Sosialistinen Liitto ) was a social democratic party in Finland. It was founded in 1959 by the intra-party opposition of the Social Democratic Party of Finland. They broke up again in 1973 and went back to the trunk party.

The party was created as a result of party strife in the Social Democratic Party of Finland. In the dispute, the camp had faced at the time of its party secretary Väinö Leskinen and the party chairman Emil Skog. After the Skog camp was caught in the intra-party opposition and the conflict had up pointed to party process of elimination, the TPSL founded the opposition in 1959 as a new political platform with Skog as chairman.

Politically, the TPSL differed from the parent party, especially in the clear support of the foreign policy of President Urho Kekkonen and so standing in connection, in friendly relations with the Soviet Union. The party participated with moderate success in elections. In 1962, she was only two, 1966 win seven seats in parliament. Emil Skog competed in the presidential election in 1962, but received only 3.0 % of the vote.

The party chairman Skog made ​​repeated efforts to achieve reconciliation with the majority Social Democrats. However, a breakthrough was achieved only after Tanner had been replaced in 1963 by Rafael Paasio as Chairman of the Social Democratic Party. Paasio was a prominent representative of the so-called third line of the Social Democrats, who had tried to mediate the opposing viewpoints for years.

The crucial talks began in late October 1963, led in February 1964 to a contract, signed the Skog and Paasio. The contract provided for the unification of the two social democratic parties and the resolution of the TPSL. However, those rules did against resistance in the left wing of the TPSL. At the party congress in the spring of 1964 Skog lost the presidency of the party to Aarre Simonen, which in turn postponing the implementation of the reconciliation agreement. As a result, the remaining in the minority representatives decided to Skog for a return to the parent party on private roads.

The Social Democratic Confederation of Workers and small peasantry was initially continued, but was visibly emaciated by other returnees to the master party, with an increasingly leftist membership remained. The party was in 1972, he renamed the Socialist Confederation of Workers and small peasantry, but was then released but a year later and went on in the master party.

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  • Historic Party ( Finland)
  • Social Democratic Party
  • Peasant Party
  • Dissolved in 1973
Finnish parliamentary election, 1958 Finnish parliamentary election, 1962 Finnish parliamentary election, 1966 Finnish parliamentary election, 1970 Finnish parliamentary election, 1972
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