Popular Democratic Party (France)
The Popular Democratic Party (French: Parti démocrate populaire, PDP) was a Christian democratic political party in France during the Third Republic. Founded in 1924, it represented the trend of French social Catholicism, while remaining a party embodying the ideology of centrism. The party's ideology was inspired by the popularism of Luigi Sturzo's Italian People's Party. The PDP was a co-founder in 1925 of the International Secretariat of Democratic Parties of Christian Inspiration (SIPDIC).
Popular Democratic Party Parti démocrate populaire | |
|---|---|
| President | Auguste Champetier de Ribes (1929–40) |
| Founded | 1924 |
| Dissolved | 1940 |
| Succeeded by | Popular Republican Movement (not legal successor) |
| Ideology | Christian democracy Conservatism |
| Political position | Centre to centre-right |
| International affiliation | SIPDIC |
The PDP had its roots in French Catholicism and various Christian movements inspired by Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais and later continued by Marc Sangnier's Le Sillon, the Young Republic League and the Popular Liberal Action (ALP), the party of republican Catholics founded in 1902 and dissolved in 1919.