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Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group

political alliance in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ7551567 ↗
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The Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group (French: Groupe Socialiste, SOC) is a primarily social-democratic political grouping in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. It was known as the Socialist Group prior to August 2017.

The group has 163 members as of March 2018. Its chair is Liliane Maury Pasquier of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland.

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This entry incorporates text from “Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.