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Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party Partito Democratico Cristiano Sammarinese | |
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| Abbreviation | PDCS |
| Leader | Gian Carlo Venturini |
| Founder | Luigi Sturzo |
| Founded | 9 April 1948; 77 years ago (1948-04-09) |
| Preceded by | Sammarinese People's Party (not official) |
| Headquarters | Via delle Scalette 6 - San Marino |
| Ideology | Christian democracy[1] |
| Political position | Centre-right[4] |
| National affiliation | Democracy and Freedom |
| European affiliation | European People's Party (observer) |
| International affiliation | Centrist Democrat International |
| Italian counterpart | The Populars (since 2002) Italian People's Party (1994–2002) Christian Democracy (until 1994) |
| Colours | Blue andwhite Light blue (customary) |
| Grand and General Council | 22 / 60 |
| Website | |
| pdcs.sm | |
TheSammarinese Christian Democratic Party (Italian:Partito Democratico Cristiano Sammarinese, PDCS) is aChristian-democratic[1]political party in San Marino.
The PDCS is an observer member of theEuropean People's Party (EPP), having joined the EPP in 1993.[5] Its Italian counterpart was the now-dissolvedChristian Democracy. Its internal left-wing faction left in 2006 to form theCentre Democrats and was joined by the social democrats ofArengo and Freedom. It is led byGiovanni Lonfernini, a former Captain-Regent.
In the2006 general election PDCS won 32.9% of the vote and 21 out of 60 seats in theGrand and General Council. The party stood in opposition to the 2006-2008 governing political coalition ofParty of Socialists and Democrats,Popular Alliance andUnited Left.
For the2008 general election the party was part of thePact for San Marino coalition and gave hospitality in its list to some candidates of theEuro-Populars for San Marino andArengo and Freedom. The electoral coalition won 35 seats out of 60 in theGrand and General Council in the2008 general election gaining 54.22% of the national vote and a governmental majority of 5, becoming the new government ofSan Marino. The Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party which itself gained 22 seats (a few of which went to Euro-Populars for San Marino and Arengo and Freedom) out of the 35 coalition and gained 31.90% of the national vote.Ernesto Benedettini became one of the twoJoint Captains Regent of San Marino.
A political crisis in 2011 dissolved the old majority, and the PDCS formed a government of national unity with theParty of Socialists and Democrats, whose predecessors worked with the PDCS for decades, so restoring a political formula which ledSan Marino, andItaly, during the second half of the 20th century. The new alliance,San Marino Common Good, won theSammarinese election of 2012, PDCS obtaining 21 seats together with their electoral running-mates,We Sammarinese.
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