Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party

Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party Partito Democratico Cristiano Sammarinese

Leader	Marco Gatti
Founded	9 April 1948
Headquarters	Via delle Scalette 6 - San Marino
Ideology	Christian democracy
Political position	Centre
European affiliation	European People's Party (observer)
International affiliation	Centrist Democrat International
Colours	Light blue
Grand Councillors	10 / 60
Website
www.pdcs.sm
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The Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party (Italian: Partito Democratico Cristiano Sammarinese, PDCS) is a Christian-democratic political party in San Marino.

The PDCS is an observer member of the European People's Party (EPP), having join the EPP in 1993. Its Italian counterpart was the late Christian Democracy. Its internal left-wing faction left in 2006 to form the Centre Democrats and was joined by the social democrats of Arengo and Freedom. It is led by Giovanni Lonfernini, a former Captain-Regent.

In the 2006 general election PDCS won the 32.9% of the vote and 21 out of 60 seats in the Grand and General Council. The party stood in opposition to the 2006-2008 governing political coalition of Party of Socialists and Democrats, Popular Alliance and United Left.

For the 2008 general election the party was part of the Pact for San Marino coalition and gave hospitality in its list to some candidates of the Euro-Populars for San Marino and Arengo and Freedom. The electoral coalition won 35 seats out of 60 in the Grand and General Council in the Sammarinese parliamentary election, 2008 gaining 54.22% of the national vote and a governmental majority of 5, becoming the new government of San Marino. The Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party which itself gained 22 seats (a few of which went to Euro-Populars for San Marino and Arengo and Freedom) out of the 35 the coalition and gained 31.90% of the national vote. Ernesto Benedettini became one of the two Joint Captains Regent of San Marino.