Democratic Left Foundation was launched in Bucharest

2015-04-03 20:40:17 - From the Print Edition

The Democratic Left Foundation (FSD) was launched in March in Bucharest within an event attended by Romanian and foreign politicians and executives such as the national leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Victor Ponta, Chairman of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) Massimo D′Alema, PSD Executive Chairman Liviu Dragnea, and over 150 guests from the academia, civil society and political quarters. According to the newly launched FSD's program, its mission is to strengthen the left-wing messages in Romania, uniting the country′s voices that claim to embrace left-wing values, and raising up against the intellectual hegemony of the right-wing. Social equilibrium is one of the main principles underpinning FSD. "The Democratic Left Foundation is a speech platform for left-leaning intellectuals of Romania," project initiator Victor Negrescu told the opening of the event. He also said quoted by Agerpres that "FSD sets mainly to promote the left-wing values and principles and create a framework that favours real ideological and thematic debates that will also regard public policies, particularly social policies."