Partido Popular Democratico de Puerto Rico
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Popular Democratic Party
Partido Popular Democrático |
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| Abbreviation | PPD |
| President | Hector Ferrer |
| Vice President | Brenda López de Arrarás |
| Senate Minority Leader | Eduardo Bhatia |
| Senate Minority Whip | Jose Luis Dalmau |
| Founded | July 22, 1938 |
| Split from | Liberal Party |
| Headquarters | Puerta de Tierra, San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Ideology |
Social liberalism Pro-Commonwealth |
| Political position | Center |
| National affiliation | Democratic Party and Republican Party |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colors | Red |
| Slogan | Bread, land, freedom Pan, tierra, libertad |
| Anthem | "Jalda Arriba" (Johnny Rodriguez) |
| Seats in the Senate |
7 / 30
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| Seats in the House of Representatives |
16 / 51
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| Municipalities |
45 / 78
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| Supreme Court |
3 / 9
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| Party flag | |
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| Website | |
| ppdpr.net | |
The Popular Democratic Party —Spanish: Partido Popular Democrático (PPD)— is a political party that advocates for maintaining the current colonial political status of Puerto Rico as that of an unincorporated territory of the United States with self-government. The party was founded in 1938 by dissidents from the Puerto Rican Liberal Party and the Unionist Party and originally promoted policies on the center-left. In recent years, however, its leaders have described the party as centrist.
As one of the long standing parties on the island, the PPD played a significant role in the history of Puerto Rico. In the early 1950s, for example, the party held a majority in the delegation convened to draft the Constitution of Puerto Rico. Once the constitution was ratified, the document was proclaimed by the party's leader and co-founder, Luis Muñoz Marín—who, in doing so, became the first Puerto Rican governor elected by the people of Puerto Rico. The party ruled all branches of the Puerto Rican government afterward for 36 of the past 65 years while establishing many of the institutions that permeate Puerto Rican society today.
Today, the party is one of the two major parties in Puerto Rico with significant political strength. In the executive branch, the party's last governor was Alejandro García Padilla who governed the island from 2013–2017 under a government trifecta. It also holds minorities in the legislative and judicial branches by holding minorities in the Senate, in the House, and in the Supreme Court. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, however, is from the PPD; a circumstance that allows the party to designate political appointees in the judicial branch since the Chief Justice is also constitutionally the chief judicial administator. Finally, in the municipal landscape, the party holds more than half of the seats of mayors.
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