Popular Democratic Party (France)
Popular Democratic Party Parti démocrate populaire | |
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President | Auguste Champetier de Ribes (1929–40) |
Founded | 1924 |
Dissolved | 1940 |
Succeeded by | Popular Republican Movement[1] (not legal successor) |
Ideology | Christian democracy[2][3] Conservatism[4] |
Political position | Centre[2] to centre-right[3] |
International affiliation | SIPDIC |
The Popular Democratic Party (
The PDP had its roots in French Catholicism and various Christian movements inspired by
History
Foundation
The creation of the PDP has its premises in the context of the immediate
From the National Bloc, fourteen deputies founded the core of the PDP prior to the 1924 legislative election.
Established by Congress on 15 and 16 November 1924, under the chairmanship of George Thibout and involving 200 delegates, the PDP supported the desire to achieve "a task in bringing reconciliation around the idea of
1932 – 1940
Faced to the governing left-wing
Despite its position, the PDP had little weight in the different governments formed between 1926 and 1932. Only Auguste Champetier de Ribes participated in various governments between 1928 and 1930.
However, the PDP acquired increasing visibility both on the ground locally and by increasing its number of elected officials at all levels (local, departmental and national). Faced with the growing threat from the Popular Democrats, the Republican Federation virulently opposed the PDP via the popular voice of Henry Kérillis who alleged that the PDP divided the "national right". Only Georges Pernot advocated collaboration between his party (the Federation) and the PDP.
The PDP was moved to the right by the
World War II and post-war
If the majority of the parliamentary party voted full powers to Marshal
Ideology
- The PDP was attached to the Republic and to political liberties. In this sense, the PDP adhered to the Christian democratic idea that one can be Republican and Catholic. However, the PDP opposed French laïcitéand defended the liberty of confessional education.
- The PDP opposed both economic liberalism and socialism, and aimed to achieve democracy in the economic and social organization by the gradual reform and collaboration between the various elements of production (mixed by unions and employee representatives in particular). Advocating state intervention in the economy, the PDP wanted to achieve social justice through the application of a Catholic social program (8-hour work day, paid leave, social insurance, family allowances).
- On the institutional level, the PDP advocated administrative, social and economic decentralization. The party also supported a more powerful executive, while upholding the legislative power by imposing rules that allow for government stability. The PDP supported proportional representation, women's suffrage and the family vote (the head of the family would have a number of votes proportional to the size of his family (wives and children) in addition to his own in elections).
- In foreign policy, the PDP supported the League of Nations. It supported the Franco-German rapprochement after World War I.
Leadership
Presidents
- Georges Thibout (1924–1929).
- Basses-Pyrénées(1924–1942)
General Secretary
- Jean Raymond-Laurent (1924–1940). Former member of Le Sillon, deputy for the Loire (1938–1942)
References
- ISBN 978-1-4384-4481-9.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-135-75385-6.
- ^ ISBN 9783486596182.
- ISBN 9783486596106.
- ISBN 978-0-230-37333-4.
- ISBN 978-0-230-37333-4.
Literature
- Delbreil, Jean-Claude (2004). Kaiser, Wolfram; Wohnout, Helmut (eds.). Christian Democracy and Centrism: The Popular Democratic Party in France. Routledge. pp. 95–110. )