Partido por la Democracia

Partido por la Democracia Party for Democracy
Party leader	Heraldo Muñoz
Secretary General	Sebastian Vergara
founding	December 15, 1987
Headquarters	Santo Domingo 1828, Santiago , Santiago Metropolitan Area
Alignment	All-world party , social democracy
Colours)	yellow
Parliament seats	Senate: 7/43 Chamber of Deputies: 8/155
International connections	Socialist International (SI), Progressive Alliance
Website	www.ppd.cl

The Party for Democracy ( span . Party for Democracy , PPD ) is a center-left Chilean party . It was founded by Ricardo Lagos , Jorge Schaulsohn as an instrumental party to face the national referendum of 1988 and the transition process to democracy.

The PPD is considered a social democratic and left-wing liberal party. Currently, the PPD defines itself according to its "declaration of principle" as a left, democratic, progressive party of equality.

Even so, the PPD has never had a clear and unmistakable political ideology in its history.

history

Ricardo Lagos, Senate candidate 1989

The Party for Democracy was founded on December 16, 1987 as an instrumental political organization whose main aim was to end the military dictatorship and to restore democracy in Chile through political and peaceful means, affirmed its founder Ricardo Lagos, who later became President of the Republic in the party's constitutional ceremony that the unique requirements for integrating the ranks of the PPD "should be against the institutional system of the dictator Pinochet's regime because it does not lead to democracy and also seeks to defeat it by political means" ".

The party was joined by people who adhered to socialism, such as radical , social democratic , left-liberal , Christian left , Mapuche , communists , even former fighters of the right-wing national and republican parties.

Its first directorate was formed by Ricardo Lagos (ex PS ), President; Manuel Sanhueza (Independent) and Armando Jaramillo (Republican), Vice-Presidents; Jorge Schaulsohn (ex PR ), General Secretary and Rodrigo González (ex MAPU ), Treasurer.

He called in the 1988 referendum to vote "No" and was one of the founding parties of the Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia.

Results of the PPD in parliamentary elections

Election year	Share of votes		be right
1989	11.4%		778.501
1993	11.8%		798.206
1997	12.5%		727.293
2001	12.7%		782.333
2005	15.4%		1,017,956
2009	12.7%		839.744
2013	11.0%		685,804
2017	6.1%		365.779

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