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=== Organisational structure ===
[[File:Presentatie concept-kandidatenlijsten Tweede Kamerverkiezingen PvdA 2012.jpg|thumb|200px|Presentation of the PvdA candidates for the 2012 general election]]
[[File:PvdA protest 20041002.JPG|thumb|200px|PvdA activists in an October 2004 demonstration]]
The highest organ of the PvdA is the [[Party Congress|Congress]], formed by delegates from the municipal branches. It convenes once every year. It appoints the party board, decides the order of candidates on electoral lists for the Senate, House of Representatives and European Parliament and has the final say over the party programme. Since 2002, a [[referendum]] of all members has partially replaced the Congress. Both the [[lead candidate]] of the House of Representatives candidate list, who is the political leader of the party, and the party chairman, who leads the party organisation, are selected by such a referendum. In 2002, Wouter Bos won the [[2002 PvdA leadership election|PvdA leadership election]].