People's Democratic Party (Spain)

People's Democratic Party
Partido Demócrata Popular
AbbreviationPDP
FounderÓscar Alzaga
Founded21 July 1982
Dissolved4 June 1989
Split fromUnion of the Democratic Centre
Merged intoPeople's Party
IdeologyChristian democracy[1]
Political positionCentre-right
European affiliationEuropean People's Party

The People's Democratic Party (Spanish: Partido Demócrata Popular, PDP), renamed as Christian Democracy (Spanish: Democracia Cristiana, DC) from March 1988 until it merged into the People's Party in June 1989,[2] was a Christian-democratic political party in Spain.

  1. ^ Matuschek, Peter (2004), "Who Learns from Whom?: The Failure of Spanish Christian Democracy and the Success of the Partido Popular", Christian Democratic Parties in Europe since the End of the Cold War, Leuven University Press, p. 246
  2. ^ "The PDP begins to disappear today to give way to the Christian Democracy". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 1988-03-04.

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