Dominican Revolutionary Party
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Dominican Revolutionary Party
Partido Revolucionario Dominicano |
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| President | Miguel Vargas |
| General Secretary | Danilo Rafael Junior Santos |
| Spokesperson | Ruddy González |
| Founder | Juan Bosch |
| Founded | 21 January 1939 |
| Headquarters | Avenida Jiménez Moya, Santo Domingo |
| Youth wing | Juventud Revolucionaria Dominicana |
| Ideology |
Populism Social democracy Conservative liberalism |
| Political position |
Centre to Centre-right |
| Regional affiliation | COPPPAL |
| International affiliation |
Socialist International, Progressive Alliance |
| Colours | Blue and white |
| Slogan | "National sovereignty, Freedom, Democracy and Social Justice" |
| Chamber of Deputies |
16 / 190
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| Senate |
1 / 32
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| Mayors |
0 / 155
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| Website | |
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The Dominican Revolutionary Party (Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Dominicano or PRD) is one of the main political parties of the Dominican Republic. Traditionally a left of the centre position and social democratic in name, the party has shifted since the 2000s toward the centre-right. The party’s distinctive color is white. Traditionally, the party has two presidents: the "Titular President" and the "Acting President" (and actually, a sort of Vice-President); until 2010 the Presidents and the Secretary-General were proscribed to run for any elected office.
The party was founded in 1939 by several Dominican expatriated exiles living in Havana, Cuba, led by Juan Bosch. It was then established in the Dominican Republic on July 5, 1961. It was the first Dominican party based on populist and democratic leftist principles and an organization based on mass membership. Bosch was elected president in 1962 in what is generally believed to be the first honest election in the country's history. Bosch later left the party in a dispute over its ideological direction, and founded the Dominican Liberation Party on December 16, 1973.
The PRD has won the presidency three other times—in 1978 (Antonio Guzmán), 1982 (Salvador Jorge Blanco) and 2000 (Hipólito Mejía).
At the legislative elections, on the 16 May 2002, the party won 41.9% of the popular vote and 73 out of 150 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 29 out of 31 seats in the Senate of the Dominican Republic. Its candidate at the presidential election on the 16th of May 2004, Hipólito Mejía, won 33.6% of the votes, failing to win a second term.
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