Country: | Brazil |
Christian Democratic Party | |
Native Name: | Partido Democrata Cristão |
Abbreviation: | PDC |
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Flag: | File:Bandeirapdc.png |
Foundation: | 1945 (re-founded in 1985) |
Dissolved: | October 27, 1965 / April 4, 1993 |
Merged: | Reform Progressive Party |
Ideology: | Christian democracy Minority: Christian left |
Position: | Centre-right Minority: Centre-left |
Religion: | Catholicism |
The Christian Democratic Party (Portuguese: Partido Democrata Cristão, PDC) was a political party in Brazil founded in 1945. The PDC, a small party supporting traditional Christian values, never achieved electoral success and was banned by the military government in 1965.
The party was re-created following the fall of the military in 1985, and subsequently merged with other parties, including the Democratic Social Party,[1] to form the right-wing Brazilian Progressive Party (PPB) in 1993.
The former president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro was a member of the party from 1988 to the merging with Democratic Social Party.