The Democratic Solidarity Party (Partido Solidaridad Democrática) is a political liberal party in Cuba

Cuba

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. Although changes to the Cuban constitution in 1992 decriminalized the right to form political parties other than the Communist Party of Cuba

Communist Party of Cuba

The Communist Party of Cuba is the governing political party in Cuba. It is a communist party of the Marxist-Leninist model. The Cuban constitution ascribes the role of the Party to be the "leading force of society and of the state"...

, these parties are not permitted to campaign or engage in any public political activities on the island. The Democratic Solidarity party describes itself as "an organization from within Cuba promoting democracy and the respect for human rights

Human rights in Cuba

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 by the peaceful route." The President of the party is Fernando Sánchez López. The party is a full member of Liberal International

Liberal International

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Current PSD/DSP

In February 2007 the following persons were elected to the national executive committee of PSD:

1. Fernando Sánchez López, President.
2. Antonio Torres Justo, Vice president pro tempore and executive secretary
3. Carlos Aitcheson Guzmán, international relations pro tempore
4. Marcos Fiallo Samper, Finanzes
5. Ignacio Padrón Navarro, Organizer
6. Osmar Laffita, public relacions and spokesperson
7. Orestes Cartaya Lirio, youth issues
8. Juan de Dios Duke, human rights and attention to political prisoners
9. Raúl Chávez Valdivia, Representantive of the oriental provinces Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo.
10. Wilber Hernández Acosta, epresentantive of the oriental provinces Ciego de Avila, Camagüey, Las Tunas, Holguín
11. Rolando Delgado, epresentantive of the occidental provinces
12. Jorge Verrier Rodríguez, epresentantive of the central provinces
13. Rafael Arias Carmona, workers and farmers issues
14. Adolfo Fernández Sainz, international relations, in jail because of the 75
15. Margarita Cienfuegos, women secretary

Provincial delegates

1. Rolando Delgado Ramos, Pinar del Río
2. Ignacio Padrón Navarro, Havana province
3. Hermes Diago Gómez, Matanzas
4. Ricardo Filgueira Fajardo, Cienfuegos
5. Juan de Dios Ortueta, Villa Clara
6. Rubén Mulén Torno, S.Spíritus
7. Israel Savigñon Revé, Camagüey
8. Amauri Peña Rodríguez, Las Tunas
9. Raúl Chávez Valdivia. Granma
10. Eidy Graña Toledo, Holguín
11. Dr. Arnoldo de la Cruz Bañobre, Santiago de Cuba.
12. Argos Alejandro Matos Ricardo, Havana city

See also

• Liberalism
  Liberalism
  Liberalism is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally, liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights,...
  
  
• Contributions to liberal theory
  Contributions to liberal theory
  Individual contributors to classical liberalism and political liberalism are associated with philosophers of the Enlightenment. Liberalism as a specifically named ideology begins in the late 18th century as a movement towards self-government and away from aristocracy...
  
  
• Liberalism worldwide
  Liberalism worldwide
  This article gives information on liberalism in diverse countries around the world. It is an overview of parties that adhere more or less to the ideas of political liberalism and is therefore a list of liberal parties around the world....
  
  
• List of liberal parties
• Liberal democracy
  Liberal democracy
  Liberal democracy, also known as constitutional democracy, is a common form of representative democracy. According to the principles of liberal democracy, elections should be free and fair, and the political process should be competitive...
  
  
• Liberalism in Cuba
  Liberalism in Cuba
  This article gives an overview of liberalism in Cuba. It is limited to liberal parties with substantial support, mainly proved by having had a representation in parliament. The sign ⇒ means a reference to another party in that scheme...
  
  

External links

• Democratic Solidarity Party official site