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Christian Democratic Party (Chile)
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Christian Democratic Party Partido Demócrata Cristiano | |
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| President | Alberto Undurraga |
| Secretary-General | Cecilia Valdés León |
| Chief of Deputies | Eric Aedo Jeldres |
| Chief of Senators | Yasna Provoste |
| Founded | 28 July 1957 |
| Merger of | Social Christian Conservative Party National Falange |
| Headquarters | Av. Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 1460, Santiago de Chile |
| Student wing | Democracia Cristiana Universitaria |
| Youth wing | Juventud Demócrata Cristiana |
| Membership (2021) | 31,776 (7th)[1] |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Centre[7][8][9][10] to centre-left[4][11] |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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| International affiliation | Centrist Democrat International |
| Regional affiliation | Christian Democrat Organization of America |
| Colours | Blue |
| Chamber of Deputies | 8 / 155 |
| Senate | 3 / 43 |
| Regional Boards | 36 / 278 |
| Mayors | 46 / 345 |
| Communal Councils | 315 / 2,224 |
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The Christian Democratic Party (Spanish: Partido Demócrata Cristiano, PDC) is a Christian democratic political party in Chile. There have been three Christian Democrat presidents in the past, Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Patricio Aylwin, and Eduardo Frei Montalva.
Customarily, the PDC backs specific initiatives in an effort to bridge socialism and laissez-faire capitalism. This economic system has been called "social capitalism" and is heavily influenced by Catholic social teaching or, more generally, Christian ethics. In addition to this objective, the PDC also supports a strong national government while remaining more conservative on social issues. However, after Pinochet's military regime ended the PDC embraced more classical economic policies compared to before the dictatorship. The current Secretary-General of the PDC is Gonzalo Duarte. In their latest "Ideological Congress", the Christian Democrats criticized Chile's current economic system and called for a shift toward a social market economy (economía social de mercado). The PDC had cooperated with centre-left parties after the end of Pinochet rule.
Except during the military dictatorship (1973–1990) when the congress was shut down the Christian Democrat Party was the largest party in parliament from 1965 to 2001.[12] In 2022 the party has faced a severe internal crisis, with many prominent politicians leaving it.
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- ^ a b Pablo Garrido González (December 2012). "Revolución en Libertad, Concepto y programa político de la Democracia cristiana chilena" (PDF). Programa de Historia de Las Ideas Políticas en Chile. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-06-20. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
- ^ a b Gómez Peralta, Héctor (6 September 2012). "Precisiones conceptuales sobre la democracia cristiana y el neo-liberalismo" [Conceptual details on Christian democracy and neo-liberalism]. Estudios Políticos (in Spanish). 9 (27). doi:10.22201/fcpys.24484903e.2012.27.33124.
- ^ a b c Walker, Ignacio; Jouannet, Andrés (2006). "Democracia Cristiana y Concertación: Los Casos de Chile, Italia y Alemania" [Christian Democracy and Concertation: the Cases of Chile, Italy and Germany]. Revista de ciencia política (Santiago) (in Spanish). 26 (2). doi:10.4067/S0718-090X2006000200004.
- ^ Sol Serrano (2005). "Conservadurismo y Democracia Cristiana" (PDF). Centro de Estudios Miguel Enríquez. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
- ^ "20 cosas que hay que saber sobre Yasna Provoste, quien hoy lanzó su candidatura presidencial | Ex-Ante". Ex-Ante (in Spanish). 2021-04-24. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
- ^ Boyd, Sebastian (15 December 2017). "How Chile's Shifting Politics Baffled Markets". Bloomberg.com.
- ^ Slattery, Gram (11 March 2017). "Chile Christian Democrats pick senator for crowded presidential race". Reuters.
- ^ Navia, Patricio; Osorio, Rodrigo (December 2015). "It's the Christian Democrats' Fault: Declining Political Identification in Chile, 1957–2012". Canadian Journal of Political Science. 48 (4): 815–838. doi:10.1017/S0008423915001067. S2CID 155391345.
- ^ "CIA Paid Chilean Pols". CBS News. 13 November 2000.
- ^ Frei, Eduardo (October 26, 2014). "Eduardo Frei: 'Conozco a la DC y no es un partido de derecha sino que de centroizquierda'" [Eduardo Frei: 'I know the DC and it is not a right-wing party but a center-left party']. El Día (in Spanish). Archived from the original on October 26, 2014.
- ^ "Partido Demócrata Cristiano (1957-2004)". Memoria Chilena (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-03.
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