Party for Democracy Partido por la Democracia | |
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| Leader | Jaime Quintana |
| Secretary-General | José Toro Kemp |
| Chief of Senators | Guido Girardi |
| Chief of Deputies | Jorge Tarud |
| Founded | 15 December 1987 |
| Headquarters | Santo Domingo 1828 Santiago |
| Youth wing | Juventud PPD |
| Membership (2023) | 27,907 (6th)[1] |
| Ideology | Progressivism[2] Third Way[3] Social democracy[4] |
| Political position | Centre-left[5][6] |
| National affiliation | Everything for Chile Democratic Socialism New Social Pact (2021) Constituent Unity (2020 to 2021) |
| Regional affiliation | COPPPAL |
| International affiliation | Progressive Alliance Socialist International[7] |
| Colours | Blue, Yellow and Red |
| Chamber of Deputies | 7 / 155 |
| Senate | 7 / 38 |
| Regional Councillors | 30 / 278 |
| Mayors | 37 / 345 |
| Communal Councillors | 269 / 2,130 |
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The Party for Democracy (Spanish: Partido por la Democracia, PPD), also known as For Democracy (Spanish: Por la Democracia) is a centre-left political party in Chile. It states to stand in the traditions of liberal progressivism.[8] It was founded in December 1987 by Ricardo Lagos, who aimed at forming a legal social-democratic party, as the Socialist Party of Chile (PS) remained illegal at the time. The PPD continued to function after the defeat of Pinochet. Until 1997, double membership of PPD and the PS was allowed.
The party nominated, as part of the Concertación (Coalition of Parties for Democracy), in the 1999/2000 presidential elections, Ricardo Lagos Escobar, the main leader of the party. He would later win 48.0% of the vote in the first round and was ultimately elected with 51.3% in the second round. At the 2001 legislative election, the party ran as part of the Coalition of Parties for Democracy and won 20 out of 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 3 out of 38 elected seats in the Senate. This changed at the 2005 elections to 21 and 3. In the 2009 elections, it won 18 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 4 in the Senate.
- ^ "Total de afiliados a partidos políticos – Servicio Electoral de Chile".
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Prowas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Krauss, Clifford (18 January 2000). "Man in the News: Ricardo Lagos Escobar; A Chilean Socialist in the Clinton-Blair Mold". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
- ^ Chile: A Latin American Success Story. Institute for European-Latin American Relations. 1997. p. 14.
The problems were highlighted by the surprise retirement of Jorge Schaulsohn - one of the most popular politicians in Chile - as president of the social democratic PPD .
- ^ http://historiapolitica.bcn.cl/partidos_politicosview_html.php?sq=&lang=&q=Partido_Por_la_Democracia History of the Political Parties - National Congress Library of Chile
- ^ Paul W. Posner (2009). "Local Democracy and Popular Participation in Chile and Brazil". In Patricia Silvia; Herwig Cleuren (eds.). Widening Democracy: Citizens and Participatory Schemes in Brazil and Chile. BRILL. p. 59. ISBN 978-90-474-3189-3.
- ^ "Internacional Socialista - Políticas Progresistas Para un Mundo Más Justo". Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2015-04-16.
- ^ Party for Democracy. Declaration of Principles (1993), p. 6. ""The PPD is a progressive party, where you find the tradition of the democratic socialism and the liberal progressivism, by what you feel to own their historic struggles for democracy and social justice in Chile and in the world. "