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{{Infobox political party
| name             = Democratic Social Movement
| native_name      = Δημοκρατικό Κοινωνικό Κίνημα
| native_name_lang = el
| logo             = Δημοκρατικό Κοινωνικό Κίνημα-01.svg
| abbreviation     = DIKKI
| foundation       = {{Start date and age|df=y|1995|12|20}}
| founder          = [[Dimitris Tsovolas]]
| split            = [[Panhellenic Socialist Movement]] (PASOK)
| ideology         = [[Socialism]]<ref name="Anagnostou">{{Citation |first=Dia |last=Anagnostou |title=Deepening Democracy or Defending the Nation? The Europeanisation of Minority Rights and Greek Citizenship |work=Politics and Policy in Greece |publisher=Routledge |year=2006 |page=128 |isbn=9780415376297 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_WEqNHp5m-UC&dq=dikki+greece+social+democratic&pg=PA128}}</ref><br />[[Social democracy]]<ref name="AnttiroikoMälkiä2007">{{cite book|author1=Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko|author2=Matti Mälkiä|title=Encyclopedia of Digital Government|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iDrTMazYhdkC&pg=PA398|accessdate=18 July 2013|year=2007|publisher=Idea Group Inc (IGI)|isbn=978-1-59140-790-4|pages=398–}}</ref><br />[[Euroscepticism|Soft Euroscepticism]]<ref>{{Citation |title=Greece: Directory |work=Central and South-Eastern Europe 2004 |publisher=Europa Publications |year=2003 |page=294 |isbn=9781857431865 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5J_gAU8c9NIC&dq=Democratic+Social+Movement+greece&pg=PA280}}</ref><br />[[Left-wing nationalism]]<ref name="Anagnostou"/>
| position         = [[Left-wing politics|Left-wing]]<ref>{{Citation |first=Richard |last=Clogg |title=Greece: History |work=Central and South-Eastern Europe 2004 |publisher=Europa Publications |year=2003 |page=280 |isbn=9781857431865 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5J_gAU8c9NIC&dq=Democratic+Social+Movement+greece&pg=PA280}}</ref>
| national         = [[SYRIZA]] <small>(2007–15)</small> <br />[[Popular Unity (Greece)|Popular Unity]] <small>(2015–19)</small> <br />[[United Popular Front]]-[[Agricultural Livestock Party of Greece]] <small>(2019–?)</small><br />[[Free People (Greece)|Free People]] <small> (2021)</small>
| website          = {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20230131164447/https://dikki.org/|dikki.org}}
| colorcode        = orange
| country          = Greece
}}

[[File:DIKKI supporters in SYRIZA rally 2007.jpg|thumb|250px|DIKKI supporters in a [[Coalition of the Radical Left]] rally in 2007]]

The '''Democratic Social Movement''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Δημοκρατικό Κοινωνικό Κίνημα, ΔΗΚΚΙ; ''Dimokratiko Koinoniko Kinima'', '''DIKKI''') is a [[social-democratic]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bale |first=Tim |title=Riding the populist wave: Europe's mainstream right in crisis |date=2021 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |others=Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser |isbn=978-1-009-00686-6 |location=Cambridge, United Kingdom |pages=35 |oclc=1256593260}}</ref> [[political party]] in [[Greece]]. The party was founded in 1995 by [[Dimitris Tsovolas]] and several ex-members of the [[Panhellenic Socialist Movement]] (PASOK), the then ruling [[Social democracy|social-democratic]] party.

== History ==
=== Formation and early success ===
In the [[1996 Greek legislative election|1996 legislative election]], DIKKI received 4.43% of the vote and 9 seats in the [[Hellenic Parliament]]. In the [[1999 European Parliament election in Greece|1999 election to the European Parliament]], the party received 6.85% of the vote and 2 seats in the European Parliament, and was a full member of the [[European United Left - Nordic Green Left]] group.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.guengl.org/showPage.jsp?ID=39 |title=GUE/NGL Site<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2007-08-22 |archive-date=2010-06-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100627023451/http://www.guengl.org/showPage.jsp?ID=39 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Failures and disputes ===
After these initial successes, however, DIKKI failed to elect members to the Hellenic Parliament on two consecutive elections; it received 2.69% of the vote in the [[2000 Greek legislative election|2000 legislative election]] and 1.8% of the vote in the [[2004 Greek legislative election|2004 legislative election]].

After the 2004 election, Tsovolas unilaterally decided to dissolve DIKKI and give the party possessions away to the Greek state. That decision led to a conflict between the party leader and the National Committee, who voted against the dissolution; there are accusations that Tsovolas went through these actions, because he was planning to be readmitted in PASOK in the near future.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dikki.org/Telos.asp |title=P. Mantas, ''Tsovolas expelled his history on his own'' |access-date=2008-12-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204011458/http://www.dikki.org/Telos.asp |archive-date=2008-12-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The National Committee went to law and the court ruled that the party is legally administered by the national executive bodies, thus it cannot cease to exist unless the National Congress or the National Committee takes such decision.{{Citation needed|date=September 2007}} The party possessions were returned and Tsovolas was expelled.

=== Reorientation ===
In the [[2006 Greek local elections|local elections of 2006]] DIKKI supported many tickets led by the [[Communist Party of Greece]] (KKE), and numerous party members (for the size of the party) were elected in local councils. Moreover, DIKKI participated in [[All Workers Militant Front]] (PAME), a [[trade union]]ist coordination centre closely related with KKE.

Although it was expected that co-operation between the two parties would become permanent, on August 22, 2007 DIKKI announced that it was participating in the [[Coalition of the Radical Left]] (SYRIZA),<ref>[http://www.dikki.org/Article.asp?W=1&ID=201 DIKKI press release] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080122023805/http://www.dikki.org/Article.asp?W=1&ID=201 |date=2008-01-22 }}</ref> which received 5.04% of the vote in the [[2007 Greek legislative election|legislative election]] held on September 16, 2007.

On February 20, 2015, the party announced it was severing ties with SYRIZA.

In the summer of 2015, it joined an alliance with [[Popular Unity (Greece)|Popular Unity]]. It would remain affiliated until June 2019, when it joined an electoral coalition with the [[United Popular Front]] and [[Agricultural Livestock Party of Greece]]. 

In March 2021, it joined the [[Free People (Greece)|Free People]] of George Trangas, from which it left a few months later.

== Electoral results ==
=== Parliament ===
{| class=wikitable
|-
! Election year
! # of overall votes
! % of overall vote
! # of seats won
! +/-
|-
! [[1996 Greek legislative election|1996]]
| 300.954
| 4.4 (#5)
| {{Composition bar|9|300|hex={{party color|Democratic Social Movement}}}}
| 
|-
! [[2000 Greek legislative election|2000]]
| 184.598
| 2.7 (#5)
| {{Composition bar|0|300|hex={{party color|Democratic Social Movement}}}}
| {{decrease}} 9
|-
! [[2004 Greek legislative election|2004]]
| 132.933
| 1.8 (#6)
| {{Composition bar|0|300|hex={{party color|Democratic Social Movement}}}}
| {{steady}}
|}

=== European Parliament ===
{| class=wikitable
|-
! Election year
! # of overall votes
! % of overall vote
! # of seats won
! +/-
|-
! [[1999 European Parliament election in Greece|1999]]
| 440.191
| 4.7 (#4)
| {{Composition bar|2|25|hex={{party color|Democratic Social Movement}}}}
| 
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Official website|https://dikki.org}}
{{Greek political parties}}
[[Category:1995 establishments in Greece]]
[[Category:Components of Syriza]]
[[Category:Eurosceptic parties in Greece]]
[[Category:Political parties established in 1995]]
[[Category:Socialist parties in Greece]]