DSG was founded in the run-up to the 1954 legislative election by Abdoulaye Diallo, Chaikou Baldé and Ibrahima Barry (a.k.a.
[5] The administration did not wish that any other party that would rival BAG as the anti-RDA force in Guinea, thus disapproving of the emergence of DSG.
At its July 1954 congress SFIO charged that the French governor in Guinea had openly supported the BAG candidate, in contradiction to the neutrality that an administrative official should have adhered to.
Barry III's attacks on traditional chiefs alienated large parts of the Fula population away from the party.
[10] In April 1958, DSG merged with BAG, forming the Guinean branch of the African Regroupment Party (PRA).