Democratic and Social Centre (Spain)
Democratic and Social Centre Centro Democratico y Social | |
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| Leader | Fatima Arbelo |
| Founder | Adolfo Suarez |
| Founded | 29 July 1982 |
| Preceded by | Union of the Democratic Centre |
| Merged into | People's Party |
| Ideology | Centrism[1] Liberalism[2][3][4] Social liberalism[5] Christian democracy[5] |
| Political position | Centre[1][6][7] to Centre-left[8] |
Democratic and Social Centre (in Spanish: Centro Democrático y Social, CDyS or CDS) was a centrist, social liberal political party in Spain. It was founded in 1982 by former prime minister Adolfo Suárez. In 2006, most of its remaining members merged into the People's Party.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Steed, Michael; Humphreys, Peter (1988), "Identifying liberal parties", Liberal Parties in Western Europe, Cambridge University Press, p. 426
- ↑ Haas, Melanie (2006), "Das Parteiensystem Spaniens", Die Parteiensysteme Westeuropas, VS Verlag, p. 437
- ↑ Colomer, Josep M. (2002), Political Institutions in Europe (Second ed.), Routledge, p. 176
- ↑ Thomas Banchoff; Mitchell Smith (12 November 2012). Legitimacy and the European Union: The Contested Polity. Taylor & Francis. pp. 123–. ISBN 978-0-415-18188-4. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Matuschek, Peter (2004), "Who Learns from Whom?: The Failure of Spanish Christian Democracy and the Success of the Partido Popular", Christian Democratic Parties in Europe since the End of the Cold War, Leuven University Press, p. 255
- ↑ Montero, José Ramón (1999), "Stabilising the Democratic Order: Electoral Behaviour in Spain", Politics and Policy in Democratic Spain, Frank Cass, p. 63
- ↑ Pallarés, Francesc; Keating, Michael (2006), "Multi-level electoral competition: sub-state elections and party systems in Spain", Devolution and electoral politics, Manchester University Press, p. 99
- ↑ Romero Salvado, Francisco J. (1999), Twentieth-Century Spain: Politics and Society in Spain, 1898-1998, Palgrave, p. xii
