The Christian People's Party () is a minor
political party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...
in the
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares wit ...
. It first contested national elections in
1986
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles.
**Spain and Portugal ente ...
,
[ Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p251 ] when it was part of the
Dominican Revolutionary Party
The Dominican Revolutionary Party ( es, link=no, Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, PRD) is a political party in the Dominican Republic. Traditionally a left-of-centre party and social democratic in nature, the party has shifted since the 200 ...
-led alliance which lost to the
Social Christian Reformist Party
The Social Christian Reformist Party ( es, Partido Reformista Social Cristiano, PRSC) is a Christian democratic right-wing political party in the Dominican Republic. It was established on July 24, 1984, by the union of Joaquín Balaguer's ' ...
coalition. In the
1990 elections it formed an alliance with MIM, but received only 0.4% of the national vote and failed to win a seat. The party did not contest the
1994 elections, but was again part of a Dominican Revolutionary Party-led alliance in the
1998 elections. However, it switched its allegiance to the Social Christian Reformist Party for the
2002 elections. It had a candidate in the
2004 presidential elections, but they received less than 0.5% of the vote. In the
2006 elections it was part of the defeated
Grand National Alliance. The party did not contest the
2010 elections.
References
Christian political parties
Political parties in the Dominican Republic
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