List of participants

XXIII Congress of the Socialist International, Athens, 30 June - 02 July 2008

Socialist International

George Papandreou (President)

Luis Ayala (Secretary General)

 

Full Member Parties

Albania, Socialist Democratic Party, PSD

Skender Gjinushi
Teodor Osoja
Luan Ferraj

 

Albania, Socialist Party of Albania, SDP

Edi Rama 
Arta Dade
Blendi Klosi
Taulant Balla 
Arben Ahmeta

 

Algeria, Socialist Forces Front, FFS

Hocine Aït Ahmed
Salima Ghezali
Karim Tabbou
Karim Baloul
Abdelaziz Baloul

 

Andorra, Social Democratic Party of Andorra,

Jaume Bartumeu Cassany
Alain Mateu Montané
Marian Sanchiz Rego
 

Angola, MPLA 

Paulo Jorge
Manuel Pedro Chaves
Francisca Amelia N’Gonga
Joao Salvador dos Santos Neto
Adelia de Carvalha

 

Argentina, Socialist Party, PS   

Rubén Giustiniani
Hermes Binner
Clorinda Yelicic
Roy Cortina

 

Argentina, Radical Civic Union, UCR   

Gerardo Morales 
Angel Rozas
Mirta Herrera

 

Armenia, ARF Armenian Socialist Party   

Mario Nalpatian
Levon Mkrtchyan
Alice Papazian
Kevork Kolanian
Kaspar Garabedian
Vahan Bezdigian
Banjamin Bouchakjian
Serko Karavani

Hripsime Harutyunian
Ricardo Yerganian

 

Australia, Austalian Labor Party, ALP

Sue West
Michael Morgan
Stephanie Key
Maria Vamvakinou
Steve Georganas
Wendy Georganas
Kevin Purse

 

Austria, Social Democratic Party of Austria, SPÖ   

Alfred Gusenbauer
Andreas Schieder
Peter Jankowitsch
Barbara Prammer
Doris Bures
Gisela Wurm
Maria Jonas
Bettina Stadlbauer

Helfried Carl 
Gabriele Fiala 
Herbert Essl 
Hermann Höfinger

 

Belgium, Socialist Party, PS   

Elio Di Rupo
Etienne Godin
Philippe Detheux

Arnaud Hermes
 

 

Belgium, Socialist Party, SPA

Stefaan Thijs
Dirk Drijbooms

 

Benin, Social Democratic Party, PSD   

Patrice Gangnito

 

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SDP BiH

Zlatko Lagumdzija
Svetozar Pudaric
Damir Masic
Sasa Magazinovic

 

Bosnia and Herzegovina, SNSD

Milorad Dodik
Zeljka Cvijanovic
Igor Radojicic
Mladen Branicovic

 

Brazil, Democratic Labour Party, PDT   

Carlos Eduardo Vieira da Cunha
Miguelina Paiva Vecchio
Edialeda Salgado Nascimento
Alvaro Costa Dias
Luciane Bolzan Vieira da Cunha
Júlio Cesar de Oliveira Chaise
Maria da Concepcion da Brito Dantas
Maria Eugenia Steyer

 

Bulgaria, Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP

Sergey Stanishev
Nadia Radeva
Denitza Slateva
Kristian Vigenin
Antonia Petrova
Fani Radulova
Dragomir Stoinev
 

 

Bulgarian, Bulgarian Social Democrats, PBSD

Georgi Anastasov
Boujka Loukitch
Elenko Bozhkov
Tzveteslava Galabova
Angelina Dimova
Vaklin Stoynovski

 

Cameroon, Social Democratic Front, SDF   

John Fru Ndi
Joshua Osih
Chantal Kambiwa
Ndiva Kofele Kale

 

Canada, New Democratic Party, NDP/NPD 

Anne McGrath
Eric Hébert
Alexa McDonough
Dawn Black
Hassan Yussuff

 

Cape Verde, African Party of Cape Verde’s Independence, PAICV

Joaquim Honorato Neves

 

Chile, PPD

Alejandro Bahamondes
Ricardo Lagos Weber
Igor Rebolledo
Sofia Prats

 

Chile, Radical Social Democratic Party, PRSD

Fernando Meza
Alejandro Sule
Ricardo Navarrete

 

Chile, Socialist Party, PS

Ricardo Núñez Muñoz

 

Colombia, Liberal Party of Colombia, PLC

Alfonso Gómez Méndez
Lorenza Santos Barbosa
Jairo Carrillo Sánchez
Griselda Janeth Restrepo
Angela María Arbelaez

 

Costa Rica, National Liberation Party, PLN

Bernal Jiménez Monge
Kyra de la Rosa Alvarado
Omar Rojas Donato

 

Cote d'Ivoire, Ivorian Popular front

Pascal Affi N’Guessan
Marie Odette Lorougnon
Masseny Bamaba
Navigue Konate
Sery Bailly

 

Croatia, Social Democratic Party, SDP

Zoran Milanovic
Igor Dragovan
Neven Mimica
Mirjana Feric Vac
Tomislav Saucha

 

Curacao, MAN

Mayra Coffie
Kenneth Gijsbertha
Eunice Eisden
Hans Els

 

Cyprus, Movement of Social Democrats, EDEK 

Yiannakis Omirou
Vassos Lyssarides
Roulla Mavronicola
Marcia Alexaki
Petros Alexaki

 

Czech Republic, Czech Social Democratic Party, CSSD

Jiri Paroubek
Petra Paroubkova
Katerina Prudkova
 

 

Denmark, Social Democratic Party

Mette Frederiksen 
Lars Midtiby
Anne Sofie Allarp
Steen Christensen
Kirsten Brosbøl
Julie Rademacher

 

Dominican Republic, Dominican Revolutionary Party, PRD   

Ramón Alburquerque
Hipólito Mejía
Aníbal García Duverge
Miguel Vargas
Peggy Cabral de Peña Gómez
Luis Ernesto Camilo
Roberto Rodríguez
Cristián Paredes

 

Ecuador, Partido Izquierda Democratica, PID

Augustin Ortiz
Alfredo Ortega

 

Equatorial Guinea, Convergence for Social Democracy, CPDS

Celestino Bacale Obiang
Epifania Avomo Bicö
Wenceslao Mansogo Alö
Jesüs Ela Abeme
Trinidad Mangue Epkwa

 

Estonia, Estonian Social Democratic Party, SDE

Jörgen Siil

 

Eygpt, National Democratic Party, ESDP

Mohamed Abdellah

 

Finland, Finnish Social Democratic Party, SDP

Eero Heinaluoma
Ari Korhonen
Pertti Paasio
Tero Shemeikka

Merja-Hannele Vuohelainen

 

France, Socialist Party, PS

François Hollande
Bernard Soulage
Benoit Curinier
Michèle Sabban
Maurice Braud
Karim Pakzad
Pierre Kanuty
Frédérique Espagnac

 

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Social Democratic Union of Macedonia, SDSM

Tihomir Ilievski
Damjan Mancevski

 

Germany, Socialial Democratic Party, SPD

Achim Post
Christoph Zöpel
Konstantin Woinoff
Harald Berwanger

 

Ghana, National Democratic Congress, NDC

Johnson Asiedu Nketiah
Kofi Attoh
Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor

 

Great Britain, Labour Party

Dianne Hayster
Cathering Speight
Mike Griffiths
Meg Munn
Denis MacShane
Rachel Cowburn
Giampi Alhadeff

Andy Walden

 

Greece, Panhellenic Socialist Movement, PASOK

Ionnis Ragkousis
Andreas Loverdos
Anna Diamantopoulou
Antigoni Dimitriadi
Charalambos Kastanidis
Christos Papoutsis
Christos Myronidis
Dimitrios Reppas

Evaggelos Venizelos
Konstantinos Skandalidis
Kostas Laliotis
Louka Katseli
Marilena Koppa
Mariliza Xenoyannakopoulou
Michail Hrysohoidis
Panagiotis Beglitis
Paulina Lampsa

Petros Eythimiou
Philippos Petsalnikos
Spyros Kouvelis
Stavros Lambrinidis
Theodoros Pangalos
Vasso Papandreou

 

Guatemala, National Union of Hope, UNE

Miguel Angel Ibarra González
Juan Alfaro
Gloria Torres Casanova
Ariel Herrera

 

Guinea, People's Assembly of Guinea, RPG

Alpha Condé
Nantenin Konate

 

Haiti, Fusion Party of Haitian Social Democrats

Victor Benoit
Micha Gaillard
Jessie Ewald Benoit
Lionel Etienne

 

Hungria, Social Democratic Party of Hungary, MSzDP

Ferenc Gyurcsany 
László Kovács
Zita Gurmai
Alexandra Dobolyi
gnes Vadaï
Szonia Havas
Gyula Cserey
Laszlo Varga

Ioannis Latoudis
András Törö

 

Iceland, Social Democrati Aliance of Iceland

Agust Olafur Agustsson
Anna Pala Sverrisdottir

 

Iraq, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, PUK

Jalal Talabani 
Hikmat Mohammed Kareem
Emad Ahmed Saifoor
Sadi Pire
Azad Abdulwahhab Mohammed Ali
Shamal Abdulwafa
Sarko Osman Mahmoud
Burhan Habib

 

Irland, Labour Party

Michael D Higgins
Donna Pierce
Aidan Cassidy
Bridget Bermingham

 

Israel, Labour Party of Israel

Ehud Barak
Colette Avital
Ophir Pines-Paz
Abraham Hatzamri
Ma'ayan Amodai
Erez Herzog
Eytan Dangot

Dana Zeidman
Hadar Drutman

 

Israel, Meretz

Yossi Beilin
Dror Morag

Yonatan Touval

 

Italy, Democrats of the Left, DS

Piero Fassino
Massimo D'Alema
Luciano Vecchi
Frederica Mogherini
Francesca D'Ulisse

Domenico Di Cinti

 

Italy, Socialist Party, PS

Vittorio Craxi
Luca Cefisi 
Anna Falcone

Valentina Morelli
Elisabetha Palumbo

 

Japan, Social Democratic Party, SDP

Mizuho Fukushima 
Takuya Kawai
Kengo Tsuchiya

Toyoko Sato

 

Latvia, Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party, LSDSP

Dainis Ivans

 

Lebanon, Progressive Socialist Party, PSP

Walid Jumblatt
Zaher Raad
Wafa Abed

 

Lithuania, Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, LSDP

Ricardas Keliuotis
Justas Pankauskas

 

Luxembourg, Socialist Workers' Party, LSAP/POSL

Christophe Schiltz

 

Mali, African Party for Solidarity and Justice, ADEMA/PASJ

Ibrahima Ndiaye
Boubacar Bah
Oumou Traoré 
Fatimata Zouré

 

Malta, Labour Party of Malta

Joseph Muscat
Joe Mifsud

Anthony David Gatt

 

Morocco, Socialist Union of Popular Forces, USFP

Mohammed Elyazghi
Nouzha Chekrouni
Ouafa Hajji
Larbi Ajjoul
Aissa Ouardighi
El Hassan Boukantar

Mehdi Mechbal

 

Mauritius, Labour Party of Mauritius

Monique Ohsan Bellepeau
Deva Virahsawmy

 

Mauritania, Assembly of Democratic Forces, RFD

Ahmed Ould Daddah 
Brahim Boihy
Lemine Khattary

 

Mexico, Party of the Democratic Revolution, PRD

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano
Saúl Escobar Toledo 
René Arce Islas
Amalia García Medina
Claudia Corichi García 
Cuauhtémoc Sandoval
Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez 
Victor Hugo Círigo

Juan Carlost Flores Aquino
María Nájera Coronado

 

Mexico, Intitutional Revolutionary Party, PRI

Beatrix Paredes
Celso Humberto Delgado
José Murat 
Gustavo Carvajal
Martha Rafful
María Emilia Farías
Ricardo Aguilar
Gilberto Sánchez Osorio

Samuel Aguilar Solís
María Luisa Velázquez
Alejandro Murat Hinojosa
Joaquín Narro Lobo

 

Mongolia, MPRP

Tenger Gonchigzegey

 

Montenegro, Partido Democrático de Socialistas de Montenegro, DPS

Milo Djukanovic
Svetozar Marović

 

Montenegro, Social Democratic Party of Montenegro, SDPM

Ranko Krivokapic
Ivan Brajovic
Danilo Mirotic

Jelena Durovic
Djordje Petrovic
Predrag Nikolic

 

Mozambique, Frelimo

Filipe Chlomoio Paúnde 
Zeca Castro Morgado
Adelaide Amurana

 

Nepal, Nepali Congress Party

Sher Bahadur Deuba
Arzu Rana Deuba

 

Netherlands, Labour Party, PvdA

Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven 
Lilianne Ploumen
Marije Laffeber
Zita Schellekens

 

New Zealand, Labour Party of New Zealand, NZLP

Lianne Dalziel
Caleb Tutty

 

Niger, Party for Democracy and Socialism of Niger, PNDS

Olav Akselsen
Martin Kolberg
Eva Amble Larsen 
Katherine Raadim
Jonas Gahr Store
Lise Christoffersen
Gro Axelsen
Gry Larsen

Martin Hendriksen 
María Hevzy
Torgeir Larsen

 

Pakistan, People's Party of Pakistan, PPP

Asif Ali Zardari
Jahangir Bader
Azra Fazal Pechuho 
Faryall Talpur
Shahbaz Bhatti
Akbar Khawaja
Mohammed Zaka Ashraf
Nafisa Shah

Asma Arbab Alamgir
Fozia Behram

 

Panama, Decomratic Revolutionary Party, PRD

Elias Castillo
Dario Fernández 
Gladys Bandera

 

Paraguay, Party for a Country of Solidarity

Estela Frutos
Josefina Duarte de Bénitez
Ginette Gonzalez

 

Peru, Peruvian Aprista Party, PAP

Mauricio Mulder Bedoya
Mercedes Cabanillas Bustamante
Javier Velasquez Quesquén
Wilder Calderon Castro
Gerardo Morris Abarca
Pilar Orbegoso

 

Polond, Democratic Left Alliance, SLD

Grzegorz Napieralski
Tadeusz Iwinski
Liwiusz Laska
Andrzej Szejna

Anka Grzywacz

 

Portugal, Socialist Party, PS

José Lello
Maria Manuela Augusto
Marcos Perestrello 
Paulo Pisco
Ana Couto

 

Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican Independence Party, PIP

Rubén Berríos Martínez

María José Cisneros

 

Romania, Social Democratic Party, PSD

Mircea Geoana
Adrian Nastase
Titus Corlatean
Cristian Diaconescu
Cristian Dumitrescu
Oana Popescu

 

San Marino, Party of Socialists and Democrats

Alessandra Renzi
Maria Domenica Michelotti

 

Senegal, Socialist Party, PS

Ousmane Tanor Dieng
Jaques Baudin 
Aminata Mbengue Ndiaye

 

Serbia, Democratic Party, DS

Boris Tadic
Vuk Jeremic
Milos Jevtic
Natasa Vuckovic

 

Slovakia, SMER - Social Democracy

Juraj Horvath
Boris Zala
Katarina Nevedalova
Katarina Klizanova-Rysova

 

Slovenia, Social Democrats, SD

Igor Lukšič

 

South Africa, African National Congress, ANC

Ebrahim Ebrahim
Thandi Thobias
Lumka Yengeni
Kopeng Obed Bapela
MD Marasha
Carmen Smidt

 

Spain, Socialist Workers Party, PSOE

Elena Valenciano
Jesús Caldera
Juan Fernando López Aguilar
Maribal Montaño
Cristina Narbona
Miguel Angel Martínez
Joan Calabuig
Emilio Menédez del Valle

María Badía 
Anna Terrón
Elena Flores
Orestes Suárez

 

Sweden, Swedish Social Democratic Party, SAP

Mona Sahlin
Goran Persson 
Urban Ahlin 
Carin Jämtin 
Veronica Palm 
Luciano Astudillo
Anne Linde
Anne Ludvigsson

Conny Fredriksson
Martin Sandgren
Oscar Stenstrom
Olle Burell

 

Switzerland, Social Democratic Party

Walter Suter
Cédric Wermuth
Vivien Jobé
Marco Kistler

 

Tunisia, Democratic Forum for Labour and Freedoms, FDTL

Hedi M'Henni
Mahmoud M'Hiri

 

United States, Democratic Socialists of America, DSA

Frank Llewellyn
Corey Walker
George Roberts
David Duhalde

Carthene R. Bazemore Walker

 

Uruguay, New Space, PNE

Rafael Michelini

 

Uruguay, Socialist Party of uruguay, PSU

Manuel Laguarda
María Cristina Villagrán

 

Venezuela, Democratic Action, AD

Henry Ramos
Maurice Poler
Luis Achiles Moreno
Adolfo Padron
Guillermo Miguelena
Yara Bastides 
Antonio Faraco

 

Venezuela, MAS

Felipe Mujica
Alfredo Chaparro
Carla Gazzanni
Valia de Mujica

Felipe Elias Mujica 
Xiomara Olivo de Mujica

 

 

Consultative Parties

Belarus, Social Democratic Party of Belarus (Narodnaya Hramada)

Mikalai Statkevich

 

Iran, Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, PDKI

Mustafa Hejrie
Khosrow Abdollahi
Shikofeh Gobadi
Rezgar Mohammadian
Azad Azizi

 

Namibia, Congress of Democrats, CoD

Ben Ulenga

 

Palestina, Fatah

Mahmoud Abbas
Nabil Abou Roudeineh 
Ziad Abu Amr

Abdel Karim Ewaida
Samir Abu
Ilan Halevi 
Mustafa Al-Ajouz

 

Paraguay, Progressive Democratic Party

Elvio Segovia Chaparro

 

Philippines, Akbayan, Citizens Action Party

Ronaldo Llamas
Ana Theresia Hontiveros-Baraquel
Jose Valencia

 

Republic of Moldova, Democratic Party of Moldova, DP

Dumitru Diacov
Oleg Serebrian

 

Timor-Leste, Fretilin

Estanislau da Silva

 

Ukraine, Social Democratic Party of Ukraine, SDPU

Yury Buzdugan
Olena Skomoroshchenko
Dmytro Fediukov

 

Ukraine, Socialist Party of Ukraine, SPU

Oleksandr Moroz
Dennis Voloshin
Yaroslav Mendus

 

Venezuela, Podemos

Ramón Martinez
Ismael García 
Didalco Bolivar
Humberto Hernandez 
Maria Elvira Alonso Suárez
Marieta de Bolivar

 

Yemen, Socialist Party of Yemen

Yassin Saeed Noaman Ahmed
Mohamed Ghaleb Alseqlady

 

(Pending consulatation)

Cyprus, Republican Turkish Party, CTP

Kutlay Erk
Unal Findik

 

Observer Parties

Jordan, Jordanian Democratic Party of the Left, JDPL

Omar Khamees Abo Laban
Jamil Ibrahim Abdulmohsen Farraj

 

Kyrgyzstan, Ata Meken

Omurbek Tekebaev
Joomart Sapasbaev
Asiia Sasykbaeva
Nurdin Duishenbekov
Cholpon Jakupova

 

Palestine, Palestinian National Initiative

Mustafa Barghouti
Khaled Saifi

 

Central African Republic, Movement for the Liberation of the Central African People, MLPC

Martin Ziguélé

 

Republic of Moldova, DTP

Emine Ayna
Sebahat Tuncel
Nezir Karabas
Fayik Yagizay
Yyup Doru

Gökçe Heval Şimşek

 

Russian Federation, A Just Russia Party

Sergey Mironov 
Alexander Babakov
Nikolay Levichev

 

Western Sahara, Polisario Front

Mohamed Sidati
Emhamed Khadad
Mih Omar

 

SI Secretariat

Latifa Perry
Harriet Ogborn
Gabriela Shepherd
Fred Smith
Maren Weege
Claudio Herrera
Benjamin Fru

 

Fraternal Organisations

Socialist International Women, SIW

Pia Locatelli 
Marlène Haas 
Margarita Zapata
Lorena Martínez

 

International Falcon Movement/ Socialist Educational International, IFM/SEI

Tamsin Pearce

 

International Union of Socialist Youth, IUSY

Jacinda Adern
Yvonne O'Callaghan
Johan Hassel
Cordula Drautz
Nela Celik
Ziad Nasr
Dimitri Tsikishvili
Petroula Deladimiou

Giacomo Filibeck
Christos Myronides
Magnus Manhammer

Michela Strangheris
Gianpaola Mazzola

 

Associated Organisations

Socialist Group in the European Parliament

Jan Marinus Wiersma
Armin Hachner
Michael Hoppe
Evangelos Lepouras

 

National Democratic Institute, NDI

Ivan Doherty

 

International League of Religious Socialists, ILRS

Andre Hammer
Ulf Carmesund
Pär-Axel Sahlberg

 

Party of European Socialists, PES

Philip Cordery
Yonnec Polet
Hugo de Sousa

Alexandra Pardal
Lesia Radelicki

 

Individuals

Rolando Araya, Costa Rica

Carol Browner, United States

Ricardo Lagos, United Nations Secretary General's Special Envoy on Climate Change, Former President of Chile

Pierre Mauroy, Honorary President of the Socialist International, former Prime Minister of France

Jeremy Rifkin, Foundation on Economic Trends, Estados Unidos

 

Guest Parties and Organisations

Brazil, Workers Party, PT

Iriny Lopes

 

Burma, National League for Democracy, NLD

Tint Swe
Myint Cho

 

China, Communist Party

Zhang Zhijun
Xu Luping
Gao Xiangyang 
Di Huishen

Chen Xiaxing

 

Cuba, The Cuban Democratic Socialist Current, CSDC

Dirk can den Broeck

 

El Salvador, FMLN

Sigfrido Reyes

 

Gambia, United Democratic Party, UDP

Femi Peters
Saburu Surakata
Foday Mendy
Chemo Jallow

 

India, All India Congress

Sandeep Dixit
Margaret Alva

 

Iran, Komala Party

Abdullah Moktadi
Farook Babamiri

 

Iran, Democratic Party of Kurdistan, KDP

Khalid Azizi
Mouloud Swara

 

Iraq, Kurdistan Democratic Party, KDP

Safeen Dizayee
Ramsi Shaban
Mahmmed Mahmmod
Sarbast Mehammed

 

kazakhstan, Nationwide Social Democratic Party

Tuyakbai Zharmakhan
Kossanov Amirzhan
Medetbekov Serik

 

Republic of Congo, Citizen's Convergence

Bonaventure Mbaya
Joseph Ludovic Samba

Jean Côme Mbemba

 

Venezuela, A New Era, UNT

Manuel Rosales
Timoteo Zambrano
Heliodoro Quintero
Elias Mata

 

European Fund for Democracy and Solidarity

Lena Hjelm Wallen
Arjen Berkvens

 

Fundación Jean Jaurès

Michel Thauvin

 

Samak

Peter Palshoj