Information:  - Ousmane Tanor Dieng (born 1948) is the First Secretary of the Socialist Party of Senegal. He has been vice-president of the Socialist International since 1996.  - An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local government. This process is also used in many other private and business organizations, from clubs to voluntary associations and corporations.  - The Socialist International (SI) is a worldwide association of political parties, most of which seek to establish democratic socialism. It consists mostly of democratic socialist, social-democratic and labour political parties and other organisations.  - A political party is a group of people who come together to contest elections and hold power in the government. The party agrees on some proposed policies and programmes, with a view to promoting the collective good or furthering their supporters' interests.  - Léopold Sédar Senghor (9 October 1906  20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of Senegal (196080). Senghor was the first African elected as a member of the "Académie française". Before independence, he founded the political party called the Senegalese Democratic Bloc. He is regarded by many as one of the most important African intellectuals of the 20th century.  - The Socialist Party of Senegal ( Parti Socialiste du Sénégal , PS ) is a political party in Senegal . It was the ruling party in Senegal from independence in 1960 until 2000 . Ousmane Tanor Dieng has been the First Secretary of the party since 1996 . The best - known figure of the PS was the late poet and president , Léopold Sédar Senghor . In the 2000 presidential election , the party 's candidate , long - time president Abdou Diouf , was defeated by the leader of the Senegalese Democratic Party , Abdoulaye Wade , in a second round of voting . Diouf received the most votes , 41.3 % , in the first round , but in the second round he received only 41.51 % against Wade . In the parliamentary election held on 29 April 2001 , the party won 17.4 % of the popular vote and 10 out of 120 seats . Tanor Dieng was the party 's candidate in the February 2007 presidential election ; he took third place with 13.56 % of the vote . The party participated in a boycott of the June 2007 parliamentary election . The Socialist Party is a full member of the Socialist International .    After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'socialist party of senegal' exhibits the relationship of 'political ideology'. Find the answer from the choices below.  Choices: - democracy  - democratic socialism  - independence  - socialism
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democratic socialism