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The Socialist People's Party (Danish: Socialistisk Folkeparti (SF)) is a Danish green socialist party. It was founded in 1959 in Hvidovre by Aksel Larsen, who had been thrown out of the Communist Party of Denmark because, among other things, he was openly critical of the Soviet invasion of Hungary. SF's ideological base is folkesocialisme (Popular Socialism) inspired by socialism and green politics. The party's former leader Holger K. Nielsen resigned after the 2005 Danish parliamentary election, in which the party lost a seat in the parliament. An election was held among SF's members on April 28 between three candidates: Villy Søvndal, Pia Olsen and Meta Fuglsang. Villy Søvndal won with 60% of the votes. Villy Søvndal promises to take the party further to the left, with more critical politics toward environmental issues, social inequality, and international war. SF is a member of the Nordic Green Left Alliance and has observer status in the European Greens. The party sat in the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group in the European Parliament until the 2004 election. Following the election, SF's sole MEP, Margrete Auken, controversially chose to sit in the European Greens - European Free Alliance group instead. In December 2004 the party had 7,464 members.
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