The Senegalese Socialist Party ( French : Parti Socialiste Sénégalais ) was a political party in Senegal (at the time part of French West Africa ). PSS was founded in July 1934 by Lamine Guèye , as a split from the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO). Guèye was the party president, Armand Angrand (former mayor of Dakar ) general secretary and Maître Vidal, Charles Graziani and Amadou Assane Ndoye vice-presidents.
2-529: The first congress of PSS was held on June 30, 1935, and the second November 24 the same year. PSS published Clartés . In 1936, PSS joined the Popular Front . Ahead of the elections PSS formed its own combat groups, to protect their meetings. In 1937, a joint list of SFIO and PSS won the municipal elections in Saint-Louis . Maître Vidal became mayor. The congress of PSS held June 4–5, 1938, decided to merge
4-705: The party with SFIO. Following that decision, a June 11–12 congress of the new federation of SFIO was held in Thiès . Popular Front (Senegal) Ahead of the 1936 elections to the French National Assembly , a Popular Front committee was formed in Senegal . It consisted of the local branch of French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), the Senegalese Socialist Party , the local Communist cell,
#418581