People's Democratic Party Partido Demócrata Popular | |
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| Abbreviation | PDP |
| Founder | Óscar Alzaga |
| Founded | 21 July 1982 |
| Dissolved | 4 June 1989 |
| Split from | Union of the Democratic Centre |
| Merged into | People's Party |
| Ideology | Christian democracy[1] |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| European affiliation | European People's Party |
| International affiliation | International Democrat Union |
ThePeople's Democratic Party (Spanish:Partido Demócrata Popular,PDP), renamed asChristian Democracy (Spanish:Democracia Cristiana,DC) from March 1988 until it merged into thePeople's Party in June 1989,[2] was aChristian-democraticpolitical party in Spain.
In August 1982, 13 deputies under the leadership ofÓscar Alzaga split from theUnion of the Democratic Centre (UCD) and founded the PDP, entering into an alliance with thePeople's Alliance (AP), which received the second largest number of votes in the1982 and1986 general elections. The party president was Óscar Alzaga until 1987, thenJavier Rupérez led the party into a merger with AP andLiberal Party (PL).Jaime Mayor Oreja, subsequently a leading PP politician, was a leading member of PDP.
The PDP was a member of theEuropean People's Party from 1986 onwards.[3]
In 1988, the party was renamed Christian Democracy (Democracia Cristiana). In 1989, the party, along with the Popular Alliance and theLiberal Party, merged with others to create the newPeople's Party (PP).[4][5]
| Cortes Generales | ||||||||
| Election | Leading candidate | Congress | Senate | Gov. | ||||
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| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||
| 1982 | Manuel Fraga | WithinAP–PDP | 15 / 350 | WithinAP–PDP | 10 / 208 |  | ||
| 1986 | WithinAP–PDP–PL | 21 / 350 | WithinAP–PDP–PL | 11 / 208 | | |||
| European Parliament | |||||
| Election | Leading candidate | Votes | % | Seats | EP Group |
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| 1987 | Javier Rupérez | 170,866 | 0.9 (#12) | 0 / 60 | — |
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