The Christian Democratic Party is a political party in Paraguay

Paraguay

Paraguay , officially the Republic of Paraguay , is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. Paraguay lies on both banks of the Paraguay River, which runs through the center of the...

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History

The party was established in the 1960s and was one of the parties that renounced violence as a means of toppling the Stroessner

Alfredo Stroessner

Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda, whose name is also spelled Strössner or Strößner , was a Paraguayan military officer and dictator from 1954 to 1989...

 regime. However, the party did not contest a national election until Stroessner was overthrown in 1989. In the general elections

Paraguayan general election, 1989

Early general elections were held in Paraguay on 1 May 1989, following the overthrow of President Alfredo Stroessner on 3 February. For the first time in several years, democratic opposition parties were allowed to contest the elections. The presidential elections were won by Andrés Rodríguez ...

 later that year it received 1% of the vote, but failed to win a seat. It won a single seat in the 1991 Constitutional Assembly election

Paraguayan Constitutional Assembly election, 1991

Constitutional Assembly elections were held in Paraguay on 1 December 1991. The result was a victory for the Colorado Party, which won 122 of the 198 seats. Voter turnout was 51.7%. Following the election, a new constitution was published in 1992...

, and in the 1993 general elections

Paraguayan general election, 1993

General elections were held in Paraguay on 9 May 1993. In the first free elections with no military candidates since 1928, Juan Carlos Wasmosy of the Colorado Party won the presidential election, whilst the Colorado Party won a plurality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, but the...

 ran as part of the Social Democratic Coalition with the Paraguayan Humanist Party

Paraguayan Humanist Party

-History:The party was established in 1985, but was not legalised until the overthrow of the Stroessner regime in 1989. In the elections that year it received just 0.1% of the national vote and failed to win a seat. In the 1991 Constitutional Assembly elections its vote share rose to 0.5%, but it...

, but failed to win a seat. It again failed to win a seat in the 1998 elections

Paraguayan general election, 1998

General elections were held in Paraguay on 10 May 1998. The presidential elections were won by Raúl Cubas Grau of the Colorado Party, who received 55.3% of the vote...

, and the 2003 elections

Paraguayan general election, 2003

General elections were held in Paraguay on 27 April 2003. The presidential elections were won by Nicanor Duarte of the Colorado Party, who received 38.3% of the vote. In the Congressional elections, the Colorado Party won 37 of the 80 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 16 of the 45 seats in the...

 saw its vote share drop to just 0.2% in the Senate elections and 0.1% in the Chamber of Deputies election. For the 2008 elections

Paraguayan general election, 2008

The 2008 Paraguayan general election was held in Paraguay on April 20, 2008. This includes presidential, legislative, and local elections. The presidential election was won by opposition candidate Fernando Lugo of the Patriotic Alliance for Change, who defeated Blanca Ovelar of the long-ruling...

 it was part of the Patriotic Alliance for Change

Patriotic Alliance for Change

The Patriotic Alliance for Change is a center-left and left-wing Paraguayan political alliance consisting of eight parties in a governing coalition:*Radical Liberal Party*Febrerista Revolutionary Party*National Encounter Party...

, which won two seats.