It is part of the Presidential Majority coalition and is led by Pierre Claver Maganga Moussavou.
He ran again in the 1998 presidential election, this time finishing fifth out of the eight candidates with 1% of the vote.
The party won a single seat in the National Assembly in the 2001 parliamentary election, and subsequently joined the Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG)-led government.
[3] Maganga Moussavou was nominated as the PSD candidate for the 2009 presidential election, finishing sixth in a field of eighteen candidates with 0.8% of the vote.
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