Popular Democratic Party (France)

Popular Democratic Party
Parti démocrate populaire
PresidentAuguste Champetier de Ribes (1929–40)
Founded1924
Dissolved1940
Succeeded byPopular Republican Movement[1]
(not legal successor)
IdeologyChristian democracy[2][3]
Conservatism[4]
Political positionCentre[2] to centre-right[3]
International affiliationSIPDIC

The Popular Democratic Party (French: Parti démocrate populaire, PDP) was a Christian democratic political party in France during the Third Republic. Founded in 1924, it represented the trend of French social Catholicism, while remaining a party embodying the ideology of centrism. The party's ideology was inspired by the popularism of Luigi Sturzo's Italian People's Party.[5] The PDP was a co-founder in 1925 of the International Secretariat of Democratic Parties of Christian Inspiration (SIPDIC).[6]

The PDP had its roots in French Catholicism and various Christian movements inspired by Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais and later continued by Marc Sangnier's Le Sillon, the Young Republic League and the Popular Liberal Action (ALP), the party of republican Catholics founded in 1902 and dissolved in 1919.

  1. ^ André Krouwel (2012). Party Transformations in European Democracies. SUNY Press. p. 305. ISBN 978-1-4384-4481-9.
  2. ^ a b Bruno Béthouart (2004). Michael Gehler; Wolfram Kaiser (eds.). Christian Democracy in Europe Since 1945. Routledge. p. 236. ISBN 978-1-135-75385-6.
  3. ^ a b Horst Möller; Manfred Kittel (2009). Demokratie in Deutschland und Frankreich 1918-1933/40: Beiträge zu einem historischen Vergleich. Oldenbourg Verlag. p. 52. ISBN 9783486596182.
  4. ^ Manfred Kittel (2000). Provinz zwischen Reich und Republik: Politische Mentalitäten in Deutschland und Frankreich 1918-1933/36. Oldenbourg Verlag. p. 686. ISBN 9783486596106.
  5. ^ Gearóid Barry (2012). The Disarmament of Hatred: Marc Sangnier, French Catholicism and the Legacy of the First World War, 1914-45. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-230-37333-4.
  6. ^ Gearóid Barry (2012). The Disarmament of Hatred: Marc Sangnier, French Catholicism and the Legacy of the First World War, 1914-45. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 156. ISBN 978-0-230-37333-4.