The Christian Democratic Party of Honduras (

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: ''Partido Demócrata Cristiano de Honduras),'' known by the abbreviation DC, is a

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in Honduras. At the legislative elections, held on 25 November 2001, DC won 3.7% of the popular vote and 3 out of 128 seats in the National Congress. Its candidate at the presidential elections, Marco Orlando Iriarte, won 1.0% of the vote. In the

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of 27 November 2005, the party won 4 out of 128 seats in the

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. Its candidate at the presidential elections, Juan Ramón Martínez won 1.4%. DC's candidate in the 2009 presidential election was Felicito Ávila. The party supported the interim government of Roberto Micheletti which came to power in the 2009 Honduran coup d'état, itself a part of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis. Orle Solís was the party's candidate for the 2013 presidential elections.

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Official web site
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