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| ideology = [[Progressivism]]<ref name="test">Party for Democracy. Declaration of Principles (1993), p. 6. ""The PPD is a progressive party, where you find the tradition of the democratic socialism and the liberal progressivism, by what you feel to own their historic struggles for democracy and social justice in Chile and in the world. "</ref><br>[[Left-libertarianism]]<ref name="libertarian PPD">http://www.ppd.cl/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/DDDD-PPD2.pdf Party for Democracy. Declaration of Principles (2012), p. 9. ''The PPD promoves the libertarian culture, which is based on the unwavering respect for human rights, individual and collective freedoms...''</ref><br>[[Social liberalism]]<ref>http://www.ppd.cl/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/DDDD-PPD2.pdf Party for Democracy. Declaration of Principles (2012), p. 12. ''We are in favor of a responsible State economically and socially, that promotes the extension of the economic and social rights and social justice ...''</ref><br>[[Libertarianism]]<ref name="libertarian PPD" /><br>[[Reformism]]<br>[[Social democracy]] |
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| headquarters = Santo Domingo 1828 <br>[[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]] |
| headquarters = Santo Domingo 1828 <br>[[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]] |
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Revision as of 21:05, 21 February 2014
Party for Democracy Partido por la Democracia | |
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| Leader | Jaime Quintana |
| Founded | December 15, 1987 |
| Headquarters | Santo Domingo 1828 Santiago |
| Youth wing | Juventud PPD |
| Membership (2009) | 99,384 (3rd)[1] |
| Political position | Centre-left[2] |
| National affiliation | New Majority |
| International affiliation | Socialist International, Progressive Alliance |
| Colours | Yellow |
| House of Deputies | 18 / 120
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| Senate | 4 / 38
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| Mayors | 37 / 345
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| Municipal Councellors | 269 / 2,130
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| Website | |
| www | |
The Party for Democracy (Partido por la Democracia or PPD) is a political party in Chile; it is left-liberal in its political orientation. It was founded in December 1987 by Ricardo Lagos, who aimed at forming a legal social democratic party (the Socialist Party remained illegal at the time). The party continued to function after the defeat of Pinochet. Until 1997, double membership of PPD and the Socialist Party was allowed. In the parliamentary elections held since the return of democracy to Chile, the Party for Democracy has invariably won somewhat more votes (and seats) than the Socialist Party.
The party nominated, as part of the Concertación (Coalition of Parties for Democracy), in the 1999/2000 presidential elections Ricardo Lagos Escobar, the main leader of the party, who won 48.0% in the first round and was elected with 51.3% in the second round. At the 2001 legislative election, the party ran as part of the Coalition of Parties for Democracy and won 20 out of 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 3 out of 38 elected seats in the Senate. This changed at the 2005 elections to 21 and 3. In 2009, it won 18 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 4 in the Senate.
Ideology
Possess a defined ideology was a problem in the first years of life of the party, this is due to the enormous political diversity of its founders, since many of them came from very different sectors, from communist militants until members of the National Party. With the passage of time claimed to be a pues of the tradition of the left, being the social democracy and the social liberalism (called progressive liberalism in the early years of the party) its main ideological foundations. Currently, according to his "Declaration of Principles," the PPD describes herself as "a left political party, democratic, progressive and parity".[3]
History
The Party for Democracy (PPD) is founded on 15 December 1987 as an instrumental political organization whose primary objective was to finish with the military regime and achieve again democracy in Chile by peaceful, political means, taking advantage of the opportunity to mobilize the Chileans who represented the plebiscite by means of which the president Augusto Pinochet sought to extend its mandate.
Its founder, Ricardo Lagos, later President of Chile (2000-2006), said in the ceremony of constitution of the party that the only requirements to integrate the ranks of the PPD were: "to be against the institutional system of the regime of the dictator Pinochet because it does not lead to democracy, and in addition want to defeat it by political means".
So people were admitted to the party of socialist ideology, radicals, social democrats, liberal progressive, left-wing Christian, mapucist, communist, and young people up to the national student movement of the eighties opponents of Augusto Pinochet, among them was the movement G-80.
The PPD work actively to achieve the triumph of the "No" option in the 1988 plebiscite that he brought back the free elections to the country. Participated in the formation of the Coalition of Parties for Democracy, political alliance that has dominated the Chilean government since the end of the military government until 2010, when Sebastian Piñera representing the Coalition for change came to power.
Presidential candidates
The following is a list of the presidential candidates supported by the Party for Democracy. (Information gathered from the Archive of Chilean Elections).
- 1988 plebiscite: "No" (won)
- 1989: Patricio Aylwin (won)
- 1993: Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (won)
- 1999: Ricardo Lagos (won)
- 2005: Michelle Bachelet (won)
- 2009: Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (lost)
- 2013: Michelle Bachelet (won)
References
- ^ Estadistica de cantidad de afiliados a partidos politicos, al 14/08/2009
- ^ http://historiapolitica.bcn.cl/partidos_politicos/wiki/Partido_Por_la_Democracia History of the Political Parties - National Congress Library of Chile
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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