Sudan People's Liberation Movement

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Sudan People's Liberation Movement الحركة الشعبية لتحرير السودان
Chairman	Salva Kiir Mayardit
Founders	Kerubino Kuanyin Bol William Nyuon Bany John Garang
Founded	16 May 1983; 41 years ago (1983-05-16)
Headquarters	Juba, South Sudan
Youth wing	SPLM Youth League
Ideology	Social democracy[1][better source needed] Civic nationalism[1][better source needed] Until 2005: New Sudan
Political position	Centre-left[1][better source needed] Until 2005: Big tent
National Legislative Assembly	332 / 550
Council of States	46 / 100
Party flag
Website
www.splmtoday.com (Archived 2014-01-02 at the Wayback Machine)
Politics of South Sudan Political parties Elections

The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM; Arabic: الحركة الشعبية لتحرير السودان, Al-Ḥarakat ash-Shaʿbiyyat liTaḥrīr as-Sūdān) is a political party in South Sudan. It was initially founded as the political wing of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA; a key belligerent of the Second Sudanese Civil War) in 1983. On January 9, 2005 the SPLA, the SPLM and the Government of Sudan signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, ending the civil war. SPLM then obtained representation in the Government of Sudan, and was the main constituent of the Government of the then semi-autonomous Southern Sudan. When South Sudan became a sovereign state on 9 July 2011, SPLM became the ruling party of the new republic. SPLM branches in Sudan separated themselves from SPLM, forming the Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North. Further factionalism appeared as a result of the 2013–2014 South Sudanese Civil War, with President Salva Kiir leading the SPLM-Juba and former Vice President Riek Machar leading the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition.

Although the party has not adhered to one consistent ideology since the independence of South Sudan and many factions exist, it has been described as "being on the left of centre ideological[ly] speaking,"^[2] and section IV.2 of the party manifesto states support for a regulated market economy^[3] with similar elements to social democracy.