Pilietinės democijos partija

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Pilietinės democijos partija
Citizens' Democracy Party
Party leader Henrikas Žukauskas
founding May 14, 2006
Headquarters Vilnius
Alignment liberalism
Colours) blue
Website www.pdp.lt

The Pilietinės democijos partija ( PDP , German: Party of Citizens' Democracy ) is a liberal political party in Lithuania .

It was founded on May 14, 2006 by renaming the Citizens 'Union , a party that emerged from the Lithuanian Citizens' Alliance in September 2005 . Your only member of the Seimas until then was its chairman Henrikas Žukauskas . He became deputy chairman of the PDP until the rift in May 2007 http://www.laikas.net/2007/188nr/04.pdf ( Memento from November 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 362 kB).

The majority of the members are determined by a split from the Labor Party . This took place after numerous allegations against their party founder Viktor Uspaskich and a criminal case for illegal party financing as well as in dissatisfaction with the authoritarian leadership style of Uspaskich. The leader of the dissenters, Viktoras Muntianas , who has been the chairman of the Seimas parliament since April 2006 , was elected chairman of the party.

At the beginning of May 2006, seven MPs resigned from the Labor Party faction in the Seimas and joined the newly established faction of the PDP. By joining four more Seimas MPs, it had 11 members (including Henrikas Žukauskas). In May 2007, 7 MPs joined the Farmers' Party to form a common group, two joined the Social Democrats and two joined the Liberals . In January 2008 the parliamentary group with the farmers' party failed, at the beginning of April 2008 the PDP parliamentary group (at that time still 6 members, 5 switched to the Social Democrats) disbanded completely after the resignation of its parliamentary chairman Muntianas.

At the end of May 2008, Algimantas Matulevičius was elected as the new party chairman, after having been acting head of the party since April. In October 2008 the PDP entered the parliamentary elections with its own list . After it had neither a broad party base nor a strong top candidate, it only achieved 1.1% of the valid votes.

The PDP sees itself as a business-friendly center party. In an effort to break away from the scandalous Labor Party, she emphasizes her goal of strengthening civil society and its (non-governmental) organizations . On their website there is a link to the Czech Democratic Citizens' Party ODS .

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