Christian Democratic Party (El Salvador)
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Partido Demócrata Cristiano
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| Leader | Rodolfo Antonio Parker Soto |
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| Founded | 12 October 1960 |
| Headquarters | San Salvador, El Salvador |
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The Christian Democratic Party (Spanish: Partido Demócrata Cristiano) is a political party in El Salvador. At the last legislative elections, held on 16 March 2003, the party won 7.3% of the popular vote and 5 out of 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly. In the presidential election of 21 March 2004, the PDC supported Héctor Silva Argüello of the United Democratic Centre. In the 12 March 2006 legislative election, the party won 6.8% of the popular vote and 6 out of 84 seats.
[edit] History
The Christian Democratic Party is the longest lasting of El Salvador's two leading parties. It was the left-of-center party while the Party of National Conciliation was right-of-center. With the rise of more socialist and communist parties in El Salvador, it became more of a centrist party. During the civil war, many leaders of the CDP who were more left-leaning were killed or disappeared, and the party moved to the right.
In 1989 Christian Democrat Jose Napoleon Duarte was the first El Salvadorian president to democratically hand over power to a successor. The party's position has since shrunk with the rise of ARENA and FMLN.
However, since no party holds a majority in the legislature, it can be seen as effectively holding the balance of power. It often sides with ARENA, and supported their effort to join´ratify the Central American Free Trade Agreement and pass a law supposedly aimed at fighting terrorism.
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