Center Démocrate Humaniste

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Center Démocrate Humaniste
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Party leader Maxime Prévot
Secretary General Eric Poncin
Deputy Chairman André Antoine
Melchior Wathelet
founding 1945 as PSC-CVP
1972 as PSC
2002 as cdH
Place of foundation Brussels , BelgiumBelgiumBelgium 
Headquarters Rue des Deux Eglises 41
1000 Brussels
Alignment Christian Democracy
Humanism
Centrism
Colours) orange
Belgian Chamber of Deputies
5/150
Belgian Senate
2/60
Walloon Parliament
10/75
Brussels Parliament
6/89
Parliament of the French Community
11/94
MEPs
1/21
European party EPP
EP Group EPP
Website www.lecdh.be

Center Démocrate Humaniste (CDH; spelling cdh ) is a party in the French-speaking part of Belgium . In the German-speaking part of Belgium it is also called the Christian Social Party (CSP) . From 1972 to 2002 the party was called Parti Social Chrétien (PSC) .

The ruling party is the third largest French-speaking party in the country. According to Dieter Nohlen , the party has suffered some losses since around 2000 due to secularization and a turn away from conservatism in the population. In 2003 it received 5.5 percent and in 2007 6.1 percent of all Belgian votes for the House of Representatives, in 2010 it received 5.7%. In the meantime, cdH is center-left in the political spectrum as a reaction to these social changes in the francophone south; Above all, the party advocates a strong welfare state that would benefit Wallonia, which is less prosperous than Flanders and more affected by unemployment.

Its Flemish counterpart is called Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams (CD&V) and is much more conservative. In 2003 this came to 13.3 and in 2008 to 18.5 percent of the nationwide votes, in 2010 to 10.9.

The party chairman has been Maxime Prévot since January 2019.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Nohlen, Philip Stöver (Ed.): Elections in Europe: A Data Handbook. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2010, p. 301.
  2. ^ Claus Hecking: The Belgian party system. In: Oskar Niedermayer u. a. (Ed.): The party systems of Western Europe. Wiesbaden 2006, pp. 41–67, here 53 f.
  3. ↑ Dieter Nohlen, Philip Stöver (Ed.): Elections in Europe: A Data Handbook. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2010, p. 301.