Katipunan ng Demokratikong Pilipino

This article is about the party in the Philippines. For the organization in the United States, see Union of Democratic Filipinos.
Katipunan ng Demokratikong Pilipino
PresidentCarlos Enrique G. Valdes III
Secretary-GeneralMaria Catherine Suba
FounderAntonio 'Butch' A. S. Valdes
FoundedAugust 31, 2018
HeadquartersSan Juan City
IdeologyNeo-nationalism
Realism[1]
Federalism
Filipino nationalism
Ultranationalism
Economic nationalism
Anti-Communism
Political positionFar-right[2]
SloganAng Partido para sa Kinabukasan.
(A Party for the Future)
Seats in the Senate
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Seats in the House of Representatives
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Katipunan ng Demokratikong Pilipino (KDP) is a Philippine far-right neo-nationalist political party founded on August 31, 2018. It was formed by supporters of 16th President Rodrigo Duterte,[3] including some officers affiliated with the Citizen National Guard, a nationalist, anti-communist and anti-islamic political advocacy group, including party chairman and former Department of Education undersecretary Butch Valdes [ceb], President Ramon Pedrosa, Executive Vice President Nur-Ana Sahidulla, and Dr. Ricardo Fulgencio IV.[4] The party had fielded former Lieutenant General Antonio Parlade Jr. in the 2022 presidential election, which he was disallowed to run by COMELEC.[5]

Since the passing of the KDP Founding Chairman Antonio 'Butch' Valdes in 2022, he was replaced by the KDP Vice-President Carlos Enrique Gomez Valdes III as the new head of the national political party KDP.

The KDP is unrelated to the similarly named Katipunan ng mga Demokratikong Pilipino (Union of Democratic Filipinos), a United States–based Marxist–Leninist–Maoist group which had opposed the Ferdinand Marcos regime during the 1970s and 1980s.[6][7]

  1. ^ Gía Samonte, Mauro (November 29, 2021). "Parladé, the Chosen One". Manila Times.
  2. ^ Teehankee, Julio (January 2022). "The Legacy of the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan: Authoritarian Contamination in Philippine Party Politics" (PDF). Squarespace.
  3. ^ "Pro-Du30 group forms political party". Manila Standard. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
  4. ^ "Katipunan ng Demokratikong Pilipino political party launched". CNN Philippines. August 31, 2018. Archived from the original on October 11, 2018. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
  5. ^ "Ex-NTF-ELCAC spokesperson Antonio Parlade Jr runs for president". Rappler. November 15, 2021. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  6. ^ Pimentel, Boying. "Small band of Fil-Ams and immigrants who defied a dictator". Inquirer.net. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
  7. ^ "Katipunan ng mga Demokratikong Pilipino (KDP) records, 1966–1988".