The PES Presidency, in its meeting in Paris on 19 May 2005, granted full member status to its member parties from Bulgaria: Bulgarska Sotsialisticheska Partiya (Bulgarian Socialist Party), Romania: Partidul social democrat (Social-democratic Party) and Slovakia: SMER-sociálna demokracia (SMER-Social democracy). SMER-SD was born after the merger of PES full member parties ”Strana Demokratickej L'Avice” (SDL) and “Socialnodemokraticka Strana Slovenska” (SDSS) together with a third party “SMER” on 11 December 2004.
