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Party for Democracy
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(Redirected from Partido Por la Democracia)
| Partido por la Democracia | |
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| Leader | Sergio Bitar |
| Founded | December 15, 1987 |
| Headquarters | Santo Domingo 1828 Santiago |
| Official ideology/ political position |
Centre-left, Social democracy, Liberalism, Progressivism |
| International affiliation | Socialist International |
| Website | http://www.ppd.cl/ |
The Party for Democracy (Partido por la Democracia) is a governing political party in Chile; it is social democratic in its political orientation. The party nominated, as part of the Concertacion (Coalition of Parties for Democracy), in the 1999/2000 presidential elections Ricardo Lagos Escobar, a leader of the Socialist Party, who won 48.0 % in the first round and was elected with 51.3 % in the second round. At the legislative elections of 2001, the party won as part of the Coalition of Parties for Democracy 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.
The party has recently entered a period of crisis after corruption scandals.
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| Nationwide parties | Christian Democrat Party - Party for Democracy - Socialist Party of Chile - Social Democrat Radical Party - National Renewal - Independent Democrat Union - Communist Party of Chile |
| Coalitions | Coalition of Parties for Democracy - Alliance for Chile - Juntos Podemos Más |
| Regional parties | Humanist Party of Chile - Regionalist Party of Independents (formers National Alliance of Independents and Regionalist Action Party of Chile) |
| Portal:Politics - List of political parties - Politics of Chile | |
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