Partido Demócrata Cristiano (El Salvador)
Partido Demócrata Cristiano, PDC (German: Christian Democratic Party, from 2011 to 2012 as Partido de la Esperanza , PES) is a political party in El Salvador .
In the elections on March 16, 2003, the party received 7.3% of the votes cast and thus five out of 84 seats in parliament. In the 2004 presidential elections, the PDC supported the candidate of the Centro Democrático Unido , Héctor Silva Argüello , who received 3.9% of the vote. The party's general secretary is Rodolfo Parker .
history
The Christian Democratic Party was founded on November 25, 1960 by Abraham Rodriguez, Juan Ricardo Ramírez Rauda, Pablo Mauricio Alverque, Héctor Miguel Antonio Dada Hirezi , José Ítalo Giammatei, Vicente Vilanova, Guillermo Manuel Ungo , Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes and José Napoleón Duarte . In 1960 a founding meeting took place in the house of Alberto Ulloa Castro. The PDC was founded on November 25, 1960, when the regime of the previous state party, the Partido Revolucionario de Unificación Democrática under José María Lemus López , was overthrown by the military on October 26, 1960 .
In 1961, Colonel Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo was proposed within the party as a presidential candidate , who on January 25, 1961 was involved in a coup against the Junta Cívico-Militar by Miguel Ángel Castillo and was now in the Directorio Cívico-Militar of Colonel Aníbal Portillo. Acceptance of this offer would have meant that the PDC would have become a state party. The PDC decided against Rivera Carballo, whereupon the Partido de Conciliación Nacional ( PCN ) split off from the PDC in 1961 . The PCN was the state party of the military regime from 1961 to 1979 . From 1964 to 1970 the civil engineer José Napoleón Duarte was elected mayor of San Salvador . During this time he developed into the most prominent opponent of the military regime. Other members of the Partido Demócrata Cristiano : Carlos Herrera Rebollo, José Antonio Morales Erlich and Adolfo Rey Prendes replaced Duarte as mayor of San Salvador in the following years.
In 1972 the PDC supported the Movimiento Nacional Revolucionario (MNR) and the Unión Democrática Nacionalista (UDN) together in the Unión Nacional Opositora , Duarte as presidential candidate. In the presidential elections on February 20, 1972, Duarte was evidently cheated of his majority vote. On March 2, 1972, the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP) shot and killed two soldiers from the Guardia Nacional in San Salvador. Members from PDC contexts were assigned to the ERP . On March 25, 1972, Duarte was arrested, tortured, lost three fingers, accused of high treason and sentenced to death . In response to international pressure, electoral fraudster Arturo Armando Molina promised him exile and deported Duarte to Venezuela .
On February 28, 1972, there were protests against the election fraud in Plaza Libertad , which were suppressed by the security forces. According to the date, a basic organization of the ERP named itself in 1977 : Ligas Populares 28 de Febrero (LP-28), to which militarized, young Christian Democrats such as Alejandro Rivas Mira, Lil Milagro Ramírez and Joaquín Villalobos Huezo belonged. Other leading members of the PDC could go into exile , but many supporters and sympathizers of the PDC were persecuted by the military regime, especially in the rural areas by the Organización Democrática Nacionalista . In 1977 the party alliance Unión Nacional Opositora put retired Colonel Ernesto Claramount as a presidential candidate, with the assurance that Antonio Morales Erlich would be appointed as vice-president.
From July 19, 1979, the victory of the Sandinistas (FSLN) in Nicaragua , the PDC became a forced project of the US government for El Salvador. On October 15, 1979, the junta Revolucionaria de Gobierno took power in El Salvador. Duarte Fuentes returned to El Salvador and joined the junta on March 3, 1980. He became foreign minister . On December 22, 1980, he became head of the junta. In the elections for the Constituent Assembly on March 28, 1982, the PDC won 24 seats and ARENA 36 seats. On May 2, 1982, the constituent assembly appointed interim president Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja to take office. On March 25, 1984, international election observers saw that Duarte had won the presidential election against the candidate of the ARENA , and godfather of the death squad, Roberto D'Aubuisson Arrieta . During the election campaign, the US government used two million US dollars for Duarte. For the presidential elections in 1989, entrepreneurs of the Consejo Ejecutivo Nacional from ARENA had the more liberal foreign trade program, which is why they won the favor of the US government under Ronald Reagan , which was previously the PDC . In the 1989 presidential elections, the PDC candidate , Fidel Chávez Mena, lost to Alfredo Cristiani Burkard from ARENA . In the parliamentary elections on March 20, 1988, the PDC achieved fewer seats than ARENA .
Exclusion from the electoral register and re-establishment
In the presidential elections on March 21, 2004, the PDC, together with the Centro Democrático Unido , achieved 3.92% of the votes cast for Héctor Silva Argüello. Ana Cristina Sol was intended as vice-president. The Tribunal Supremo Electoral then took the PDC out of the electoral register because it fell below the three percent clause. The PDC complained against this and was given back its place in the electoral register before the Corte Suprema de Justicia because of legal security under Article 2 of the constitution. Article 208 of the same constitution, according to which the keeping of the electoral register is the sole responsibility of the TSE, was ignored . The Partido de Conciliación Nacional ( PCN ), which alone received 2.71% of the vote, experienced a resurrection in the same way.
In the parliamentary elections on March 12, 2006, the PDC received 6.9 percent of the votes cast, which corresponds to six members of the Asamblea Legislativa .
On April 30, 2011, the decree that the PDC had saved the PDC from dissolution after the 2004 election despite falling below the threshold clause was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and the party was removed from the party register. The PDC was then effectively replaced by the Partido de la Esperanza , which was approved by the electoral authority in October 2011. In the parliamentary election in March 2012 she won 2.76% of the vote and a seat in the legislative assembly. In September 2012, the party applied to be allowed to use its old name again, which the Supreme Electoral Tribunal allowed. In the 2014 presidential election she was part of the Unidad alliance and supported the candidacy of the conservative ex-president Antonio Saca .
Individual evidence
- ↑ elfaro 21 de mayo 2007, Plática con Abraham Rodríguez, ex secretario general del PDC ( Memento of the original of January 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Prensa Grafica Orígenes del Partido Demócrata Cristiano (PDC) ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Es : Lil Milagro Ramírez
- ↑ Centroamerica21, January 2, 2008 Tres elecciones, el mismo ganador Elecciones 2004: La frialdad de los números ( Memento of the original of December 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ americo EL SALVADOR RESULTADOS ELECTORALES (1994-2006). pdf
- ↑ El Salvador Supreme Court disbands two parties , BBC News, April 30, 2011. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
- ↑ TSE ordena inscripción Partido de la Esperanza ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , La Prensa Grafica, October 5, 2011 (in Spanish). Retrieved March 12, 2012.
- ↑ El PES volverá a llamarse PDC y el CN también busca ser PCN. ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: ElMundo.com.sv , September 26, 2012.
