Catalan European Democratic Party

Not to be confused with Democrats of Catalonia.

Catalan European Democratic Party
Partit Demòcrata Europeu Català
AbbreviationPDeCAT
PresidentDavid Bonvehí
Founded10 July 2016 (2016-07-10)
Dissolved23 October 2023 (2023-10-23)
Preceded byDemocratic Convergence of Catalonia
HeadquartersC/ Calàbria, 169, 1ª
08015, Barcelona[1]
Youth wingNationalist Youth of Catalonia (until 2020)
Membership (2020)Decrease 5,000[2]
Ideology
Political positionCentre[6][7][8] to centre-right[9][10][11][12]
Regional affiliation
European affiliationAlliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (until 2018)
Colors  Blue
  Yellow
Website
www.partitdemocrata.cat

The Catalan European Democratic Party (Catalan: Partit Demòcrata Europeu Català, PDeCAT, sometimes stylized as PDECat), initially branded as the Catalan Democratic Party (Catalan: Partit Demòcrata Català, PDC), was a liberal political party in Spain that supported Catalan independence.[13] The party was founded in Barcelona on 10 July 2016 and dissolved on 28 October 2023.[14] PDeCAT was regarded as the successor party to Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC), which for most its history was a constituent party of the Convergence and Union (CiU) political formation.[a][13]

The party declared to have 14,000 members in the 2018–2019 period,[18] but this number has recently been revised down to figures as low as 5,000 as a result of internal infighting over former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont's strategy and a number of party splits.[2]

  1. ^ "El PDeCAT se muda de sede y tendrá enfrente la de Esquerra Republicana". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona. 24 January 2019. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
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  3. ^ a b Nordsieck, Wolfram (2017). "Catalonia/Spain". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 12 December 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  4. ^ "The new leading parties in Catalonia's shifting political landscape". 20 December 2017.
  5. ^ "El PNV apoya al PDeCat para resucitar el nacionalismo moderado en Cataluña". February 2021.
  6. ^ "Pot el PDECat en solitari frustrar les expectatives electorals de Puigdemont? | NacióDigital". 2 September 2020.
  7. ^ "Del procés al enigma: las claves del catalanismo". Blog de Asuntos Públicos (in Spanish). 2 July 2020. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
  8. ^ "Pascal viste al PDeCAT de partido del 'macronismo catalán'". 13 May 2017.
  9. ^ Rosenbach, Eleanor (1 October 2017). "The Catalan independence referendum is a smokescreen for other issues". The Independent. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  10. ^ Edwards, Sam; Sanz, Inmaculada (8 November 2017). "Catalan strike severs road links as secessionist leader regroups". Barcelona/Madrid: Reuters. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  11. ^ "Snap regional parliamentary elections". www.csis.org. Center for Strategic and International Studies (Think Tank). 21 December 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  12. ^ Antich, José (21 July 2018). "PDeCAT, the party that didn't grow up". El Nacional. Barcelona. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  13. ^ a b Angel Smith, ed. (2017). Historical Dictionary of Spain. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 487. ISBN 978-1-5381-0883-3.
  14. ^ "El PDeCAT se disuelve después de las sucesivas derrotas electorales". ElNacional.cat (in Spanish). 28 October 2023. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
  15. ^ Barrena, Xabi (10 July 2016). "Adiós CDC, hola Partit Demòcrata Català". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
  16. ^ Sallés, Quico (10 July 2016). "Partit Demòcrata Català, el nombre elegido para ser el partido heredero de CDC". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  17. ^ García Pagán, Isabel; Gisbert, Josep (11 July 2016). "Las nueve claves del Partit Demòcrata Català y su independentismo sin matices". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  18. ^ "Los partidos se atribuyen ocho veces más militantes de los que admiten pagar cuotas". Público (in Spanish). 28 July 2019. Retrieved 9 July 2020.


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