International Democratic Union
International Democratic Union | |
president | Stephen Harper |
Deputy President |
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Assistant President |
Marco Solares José Ramón García Hernández Christopher J. Fussner |
Vice President |
Kizza Besigye (Uganda) Reinhold Bocklet (Germany) José Carlos Aleluia (Brazil) Oscar Ortiz (Bolivia) Joseph Daul (France, EPP President) Tsedenjav Sukhbaatar (Mongolia) Kim Se-yeon (South Korea) Sir Geoffrey Clifton Brown (Great Britain) Allen Chastanet (Saint Lucia) Peter Mac Manu (Ghana) Etibar Mammadov (Azerbaijan) David McAllister (Germany) Erna Solberg (Norway) Ranil Wickremesinghe (Sri Lanka) Jan Zahradil (Czech Republic, AKRE President) |
Secretary General | Christian Kattner |
Treasurer | Mike Roman |
founding | June 24, 1983 |
Members | 70 parties |
website | www.idu.org |
The International Democratic Union (IDU, English International Democrat Union ) is a working group of 70 conservative and Christian Democratic parties. Another 30 or so parties belong to only one regional subgroup. The youth organization is the IYDU .
The IDU sees itself as a forum that provides the basis for contacts, discussions and networking among conservative and Christian parties around the world.
The current Chairman is former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper . He and the other officials of the IDU are elected by a summit of the chairmen of the member parties held every three to four years. The German CDU politician David McAllister , MEP, is one of the vice-presidents .
history
Founded in 1983, the IDU provides a forum where parties with similar beliefs can come together and exchange views on political and organizational interests in order to learn from each other, act together, socialize, and speak with one voice to help the world over Promote democracy. The founding members of the IDU include the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher , the US Vice-President George Bush Sr. , Jacques Chirac , the then Paris Mayor and later President of France , the German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and other party leaders.
According to this, a country can only develop its full potential if it recognizes the ideals of liberal democracy , the freedom of the individual and the need for independent economic growth and free, competitive corporate economies . The IDU sees its emergence as a response to a globalized world in which a parliamentary decision in one country can influence politics in another.
Through the IDU, the member parties can exchange political ideas, support one another in order to discuss and deepen political arguments and thus ultimately win elections. There are regular meetings of the entire IDU and its regional organizations.
At IDU Executive Meetings, briefings on current global political and geostrategic topics are dealt with. In addition to board meetings and meetings of the IDU Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, the IDU organizes events such as the Young Leaders' Forum as well as information trips and election observations . Every four years a major event takes place parallel to the Republican Convention , the last in September 2012 in Tampa, Florida.
International Women Democrat Union
IWDU is an association dedicated to the advancement of women and the processing of important women's issues within the global family of center-right parties. The organization consists of female members of like-minded parties. The IWDU offers female executives opportunities for networking, strengthening and visibility and encourages them to take on political offices.
International Young Democrat Union
The International Young Democrat Union (IYDU) is a global alliance of youth organizations of center-right parties linked by a common desire for more freedom and less government. Founded in 1981, two years before its parent organization, the International Democrat Union (IDU), which was formed in 1983, the IYDU has grown to more than 120 members from over 81 different nations.
Today the IYDU unites members with a rich history, culture and political traditions, linked by a common commitment to freedom and the fight against socialism . Throughout the year, IYDU hosts a number of events around the world. Current and future managers network, discuss ideologies, exchange ideas and build friendships. Participation in the IYDU is, according to its own account, "a commitment to a better world that is created through a real democratic process".
Founding members
The IDU was founded on June 24, 1983 in London with Alois Mock as its first chairman. The 19 founding members and their signatories were:
- Australia: Liberal Party ( Andrew Peacock )
- Denmark: Det Conservative Folkeparti ( Poul Schlüter )
- Germany: CDU ( Helmut Kohl ) and CSU ( Franz Josef Strauss )
- Finland: National Collection Party ( Ilkka Suominen )
- France: Rassemblement pour la République ( Jacques Chirac )
- Greece: Nea Dimokratia ( Evangelos Averoff-Tositsas )
- Japan: Liberal Democratic Party ( Tatsuo Tanaka )
- Canada: Progressive Conservative Party ( Erik Nielsen )
- New Zealand: National Party ( Susanne Wood )
- Norway: Høyre ( Jo Benkow )
- Austria: ÖVP (Alois Mock)
- Portugal: Centro Democrático Social ( Lucas Pires )
- Sweden: Moderata samlingspartiet ( Ulf Adelsohn )
- Spain: Partido Demócrata Popular ( Óscar Alzaga ) and Alianza Popular ( Manuel Fraga Iribarne )
- USA: Republican Party ( Frank J. Fahrenkopf )
- United Kingdom: Conservative Party ( Margaret Thatcher )
- Cyprus: Dimokratikos Synagermos ( Glafkos Klerides )
Member parties
- Albania - The Democratic Party (PD)
- Argentina - Propuesta Republicana (PRO)
- Australia - Liberal Party (LP)
- Azerbaijan - National Independence Party (NIPA)
- Bolivia - Movimiento Demócrata Social (Democratas)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina - Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine (HDZ), Hrvatska demokratska zajednica 1990 (HDZ 1990), Partija demokratskog progresa (PDP) and Stranka demokratske akcije (SDA)
- Brazil - Democratas (DEM)
- Bulgaria - Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) and Union of Democratic Forces (SDS)
- Chile - Unión Demócrata Independiente (UDI) and Renovación Nacional (RN)
- Denmark - Det Conservative Folkeparti (K)
- Germany - Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU)
- Dominican Republic - Fuerza Nacional Progressista (FNP)
- Ecuador - Partido Social Cristiano (PSC)
- El Salvador - Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA)
- Estonia - Pro Patria and Res Publica Union (IRPL)
- Finland - National Collection Party (KOK)
- Georgia - United National Movement (UNM)
- Ghana - New Patriotic Party (NPP)
- Grenada - New National Party (NNP)
- Greece - Nea Dimokratia (ND)
- Guatemala - Unionist Party (PU)
- Honduras - Partido Nacional de Honduras (PNH)
- India - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
- Iceland - Independence Party (SF)
- Israel - Likud
- Canada - Conservative Party of Canada (CPC / PCC)
- Kenya - Democratic Party
- Colombia - Partido Conservador Colombiano (PCC)
- Croatia - Hrvatska demokratska zajednica (HDZ)
- Lebanon - Lebanese Forces
- Lithuania - Tėvynės Sąjunga (TS)
- Maldives - Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP)
- Morocco - Istiqlal
- Moldova - Partidul Liberal Democrat din Moldova (PLDM)
- Mongolia - Democratic Party (DP)
- Montenegro - Movement for Change (PzP)
- New Zealand - National Party (NZNP)
- Nicaragua - Partido Conservador de Nicaragua (PCN)
- North Macedonia - Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization - Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity (VMRO-DPMNE)
- Norway - Høyre (H)
- Austria - Austrian People's Party (ÖVP)
- Panama - Cambio Democrático (CD)
- Paraguay - Movimento Dignidad Republicana / Partido Colorado (MDR / ANR-PC)
- Peru - Partido Popular Cristiano (PPC)
- Portugal - Centro Democrático e Social - Partido Popular (CDS-PP)
- Russia - Union of Right Forces (SPS)
- Saint Lucia - United Workers Party (UWP)
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - New Democratic Party (NDP)
- Sweden - Moderata samlingspartiet (M)
- Serbia - Srpska napredna stranka (SNS)
- Slovenia - Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS)
- Spain - Partido Popular (PP)
- Sri Lanka - United National Party (UNP)
- South Korea - Jayu-hanguk Party (Liberty Korea Party)
- Taiwan - Kuomintang (KMT)
- Tanzania - Party for Democracy and Progress (CHADEMA)
- Czech Republic - Democratic Citizens' Party (ODS)
- Uganda - Forum for Democratic Change (FDC)
- Ukraine - All-Ukrainian Association "Fatherland"
- Hungary - Fidesz - Hungarian Citizens' Union (FIDESZ)
- Venezuela - Proyecto Venezuela (PV)
- United Kingdom - Conservative and Unionist Party (Con / CP)
- United States - Republican Party (GOP)
- Belarus - United Citizens' Party of Belarus and Belarusian Popular Front Party (BNF)
- Cyprus - Dimokratikos Synagermos (DISY)
Sister organizations
Associated Organizations
- Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformers
- Asian Pacific Democratic Union
- Democratic Union of Africa
- Union of Latin American Parties
- Caribbean Democratic Union
- European People's Party
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ McAllister elected Vice President of the IDU . politics & communication. November 24, 2014. Retrieved December 2, 2014.
- ^ Founders. (No longer available online.) IDU, archived from the original on July 1, 2012 ; accessed on December 3, 2010 (English).