The Christian Democratic Party ( es, Partido Demócrata Cristiano, PDC) is a

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Paraguay Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...

History

The party was established in May 1960 and was one of the parties that renounced violence as a means of toppling the Stroessner regime. Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p416 However, the party did not contest a national election until Stroessner was overthrown in 1989. In the

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later that year it received 1% of the vote, but failed to win a seat. It won a single seat in the 1991 Constitutional Assembly election, and in the 1993 general elections ran as part of the Social Democratic Coalition with the

Paraguayan Humanist Party The Paraguayan Humanist Party ( es, Partido Humanista Paraguayo, PHP) was a political party in Paraguay. History The party was established in 1985, but was not legalised until the overthrow of the Stroessner regime in 1989. In the elections tha ...

, but failed to win a seat. It again failed to win a seat in the 1998 elections, and the 2003 elections saw its vote share drop to just 0.2% in the Senate elections and 0.1% in the Chamber of Deputies election.Nohlen, p431 For the 2008 elections it was part of the

Patriotic Alliance for Change The Patriotic Alliance for Change ( es, Alianza Patriótica por el Cambio, APC) was a Paraguayan electoral alliance. Its candidate in the 2008 election was Fernando Lugo, who won the election. Composition Its members included:http://www.abc.co ...

, which won two seats.

References

External links

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