Christian Democratic Party
Partido Demócrata Cristiano
Founded15 May 1960
IdeologyChristian democracy[1][2]
Political positionCentre to centre-left[1]
National affiliationConcertación
Regional affiliationChristian Democrat Organization of America
International affiliationCentrist Democrat International
Website
www.pdc.org.py

The Christian Democratic Party (Spanish: Partido Demócrata Cristiano, PDC) is a political party in Paraguay.

History

The party was established in May 1960 and was one of the parties that renounced violence as a means of toppling the Stroessner regime.[3] However, the party did not contest a national election until Stroessner was overthrown in 1989.[4] In the general elections later that year it received 1% of the vote, but failed to win a seat. It won a single seat in the 1991 Constitutional Assembly election, and in the 1993 general elections ran as part of the Social Democratic Coalition with the Paraguayan Humanist Party, but failed to win a seat. It again failed to win a seat in the 1998 elections, and the 2003 elections saw its vote share drop to just 0.2% in the Senate elections and 0.1% in the Chamber of Deputies election.[5] For the 2008 elections it was part of the Patriotic Alliance for Change, which won two seats.

References

  1. 1 2 "Die etwas anderen Christdemokraten". Informationsstelle Lateinamerika. June 2013.
  2. ↑ "Paraguay unter dem Präsidenten Lugo – Regieren unter schwierigen Bedingungen". Konrad Adenauer Foundation. 2 March 2009.
  3. ↑ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p416 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
  4. ↑ Nohlen, p428
  5. ↑ Nohlen, p431
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