{{Short description|Defunct political party in Chile}} {{Infobox political party | colorcode = {{party color|Democratic Socialist Radical Party}} | name = Democratic Socialist Radical Party | native_name = Partido Radical Socialista Democrático | logo = | foundation = 1983 (Radical Party-Luengo)<br />1987 (Democratic Socialist Radical Party) | dissolution = 9 May 1990 | headquarters = [[Santiago de Chile]] | split = [[Radical Party (Chile)|Radical Party]] | merged = [[Radical Party (Chile)|Radical Party]] | ideology = [[Radicalism (historical)|Radicalism]]<br>[[Democratic socialism]]<br>[[Laïcité]] | position = [[Centre-left politics|Centre-left]] to [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]] | national = United Left (1987-1988)<br />Unity for the Democracy (1989-1990) | country = Chile }}
The '''Democratic Socialist Radical Party''' ({{langx|es|Partido Radical Socialista Democrático}}, '''PRSD''') was a [[political party]] of [[Chile]] that emerged from a [[Left-wing politics|leftist]] faction of the [[Radical Party (Chile)|Radical Party]] led by [[:es:Luis Fernando Luengo|Luis Fernando Luengo]] that came into conflict with [[Enrique Silva Cimma]], [[Raúl Rettig]] and some radical politicians.
The party was founded in 1983 under the name of '''Radical Party-Luengo''' (''Partido Radical-Luengo'') in May 1987 and was renamed ''Democratic Socialist Radical Party''.
Among its leaders and members were [[Alejandro Ríos Valdivia]], [[Anselmo Sule]], Aníbal Palma, Armando Lobos Barrientos, [[:es:Ana Ugalde Arias|Ana Eugenia Ugalde Arias]] and the brothers [[Edgardo Enríquez]] and [[:es:Humberto Enríquez Frödden|Humberto Enríquez Frödden]]. On 2 July 1989 [[:es:Hugo Miranda|Hugo Miranda Ramírez]] was elected party chairman.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/archivos2/pdfs/MC0030717.pdf|title=Elecciones en el PRSD|work=Análisis|date=July 10, 1989|accessdate=September 11, 2014}}</ref>
It was one of the main parties of the opposition to the [[Military dictatorship of Chile (1973–90)|military regime]] of [[Augusto Pinochet|Pinochet]] and joined the coalitions of United Left and then the ''Concertación por el No'', the party supported the option NO in the [[1988 Chilean national plebiscite|plebiscite of 1988]] and the following year, in 1989, for the [[1989 Chilean general election|elections]] supported the candidacy of [[Patricio Aylwin]] and joined the Unity for the Democracy pact when it presented two candidates for deputy, where received 0.02% of votes and did not win any seats. The party also presented Aníbal Palma in Tarapacá and Anselmo Sule in the O'Higgins region as candidates for independent senators on the list of the coalition. Sule was elected after doubling with his running mate, the Christian Democrat Nicolás Díaz Sánchez.
The 9 May 1990 was dissolved<ref name="libroservel">{{cite web|url=http://www.servel.cl/controls/neochannels/neo_ch119/appinstances/media273/libro_pp_2010_web_v3_2.pdf |title=Libro de Partidos Políticos |author=Servicio Electoral de Chile |date=2010 |accessdate=August 3, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927171123/http://www.servel.cl/controls/neochannels/neo_ch119/appinstances/media273/libro_pp_2010_web_v3_2.pdf |archivedate=September 27, 2013 }}</ref> and its members were finally integrated into the ranks of the Radical Party.
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