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List of Christian democratic parties

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Christian democratic parties are political parties that seek to apply Christian principles to public policy. The underlying Christian democracy movement emerged in 19th-century Europe, largely under the influence of Catholic social teaching and Neo-Calvinist theology.{{cite book|last=Monsma|first=Stephen V.|title=Pluralism and Freedom: Faith-based Organizations in a Democratic Society|year=2012|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|language=en|isbn=9781442214309|page=13|quote=This is the Christian Democratic tradition and the structural pluralist concepts that underlie it. The Roman Catholic social teaching of subsidiarity and its related concepts, as well as the parallel neo-Calvinist concept of sphere sovereignty, play major roles in structural pluralist thought.}}{{cite book|last=Witte|first=John|title=Christianity and Democracy in Global Context|year=1993|publisher=Westview Press|language=en |isbn=9780813318431|page=9|quote=Concurrent with this missionary movement in Africa, both Protestant and Catholic political activists helped to restore democracy to war-torn Europe and extend it overseas. Protestant political activism emerged principally in England, the Lowlands, and Scandinavia under the inspiration of both social gospel movements and neo-Calvinism. Catholic political activism emerged principally in Italy, France, and Spain under the inspiration of both Rerum Novarum and its early progeny and of neo-Thomism. Both formed political parties, which now fall under the general aegis of the Christian Democratic Party movement. Both Protestant and Catholic parties inveighed against the reductionist extremes and social failures of liberal democracies and social democracies. Liberal democracies, they believed, had sacrificed the community for the individual; social democracies had sacrificed the individual for the community. Both parties returned to a traditional Christian teaching of "social pluralism" or "subsidiarity," which stressed the dependence and participation of the individual in family, church, school, business, and other associations. Both parties stressed the responsibility of the state to respect and protect the "individual in community."}} Christian democracy continues to be influential in Europe and Latin America, though in a number of countries its Christian ethos has been diluted by secularisation. In practice, Christian democracy is often considered centre-right on cultural, social and moral issues, but centre-left "with respect to economic and labor issues, civil rights, and foreign policy" as well as the environment,{{cite book |last=Vervliet |first=Chris |title=Human Person |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=znYoDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA48 |year=2009 |publisher=Adonis & Abbey |isbn=978-1-912234-19-6 |pages=48–51}}{{refn|The basic tenets of Christian democracy call for applying Christian principles to public policy; Christian democratic parties tend to be socially conservative but otherwise left of center with respect to economic and labor issues, civil rights, and foreign policy.{{cite book |last=Kte'pi |first=Bill |editor-first=Charles |editor-last=Wankel |title=Encyclopedia of Business in Today's World: A – C |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kGQ7N26vJSQC&pg=PA131 |year=2009 |publisher=Sage |isbn=978-1-4129-6427-2 |chapter=Belgium |page=131}}|group=nb}} generally supporting a social market economy.{{sfn|Vervliet|2009|pp=48–51}} Christian democracy can be seen as either conservative, centrist, or liberal / left of, right of, or center of the mainstream political parties depending on the social and political atmosphere of a given country and the positions held by individual Christian democratic parties. In Europe, where their opponents have traditionally been secularist socialists, Christian democratic parties are moderately conservative overall, whereas in the very different cultural and political environment of Latin America they tend to lean to the left. It is the dominant centre-right political movement in Europe, but by contrast, Christian democratic parties in Latin America tend to be left-leaning.{{cite journal |last=Szulc |first=Tad |title=Communists, Socialists, and Christian Democrats |journal=The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |volume=360 |issue=1 |year=1965 |page=102 |issn=0002-7162 |doi=10.1177/000271626536000109 |s2cid=145198515}} Christian democracy includes elements common to several other political ideologies, including conservatism, liberalism, and social democracy. In the United States, Christian democratic parties of Europe and Latin America, deemed conservative and liberal respectively in their geopolitical regions, are both generally regarded as farther left-wing of the mainstream.{{CN|date=November 2023}}

Alphabetical list by country

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  • Austrian People's Party{{Cite web|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/austria.html|title=Parties and Elections in Europe|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|website=www.parties-and-elections.eu|access-date=2017-05-28}}

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  • Movement for Democracy
  • União Caboverdeana Independente e Democratica (Cape Verdean Union for an Independent Democracy) – UCID

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  • Democratic Rally{{Cite web|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/cyprus.html|title=Parties and Elections in Europe|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|website=www.parties-and-elections.eu|access-date=2017-05-28}}

;{{flag|Czech Republic}}

  • KDU-ČSL{{Cite web|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/czechia.html|title=Parties and Elections in Europe|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|website=www.parties-and-elections.eu|access-date=2017-05-28}}

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;{{flag|Denmark}}

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  • Christian Democratic Party (Egypt), a Coptic party in Egypt founded in the 1950s.[https://providencemag.com/2019/10/democracy-wont-save-middle-east-religious-minorities Democracy Won’t Save the Middle East’s Religious Minorities. Maged Atiya. October 24, 2019. Providence Magazine.]

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  • Christian Democrats{{Cite web|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/finland.html|title=Parties and Elections in Europe|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|website=www.parties-and-elections.eu|access-date=2017-05-28}}

;{{flag|France}}

  • The Republicans{{Cite web|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/france.html|title=Parties and Elections in Europe|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|website=www.parties-and-elections.eu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626112515/http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/france.html|archive-date=2015-06-26|url-status=live|access-date=2017-05-28}}
  • Christian Democratic Party

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  • Christian Democratic People's Party{{Cite web|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/hungary.html|title=Parties and Elections in Europe|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|website=www.parties-and-elections.eu|access-date=2017-05-28}}

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;{{flag|Ireland}}

  • Fine Gael{{Cite web|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/ireland.html|title=Parties and Elections in Europe|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|website=www.parties-and-elections.eu|access-date=2017-05-28}}
  • Fianna Fáil{{Cite book|last=Colomer|first=Josep M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TZF8AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA31|title=Comparative European Politics|date=2008-07-25|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-07354-2|language=en}}

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  • Fatherland Union{{Cite web|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/liechtenstein.html|title=Parties and Elections in Europe|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|website=www.parties-and-elections.eu|access-date=2017-05-28}}

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  • Christian Social People's Party{{Cite web|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/luxembourg.html|title=Parties and Elections in Europe|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|website=www.parties-and-elections.eu|access-date=2017-05-28}}

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;{{flag|Malta}}

;{{flag|Mexico}}

  • National Action Party{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ppe20kevrzgC&q=table+4.1&pg=PA81|editor1-last=Mainwaring|editor1-first=Scott|editor2-last=Scully|editor2-first=Timothy|title=Christian Democracy in Latin America: Electoral Competition and Regime Conflicts|publisher=Stanford University Press|year=2003|isbn=0-8047-4598-6|location=Stanford, California|pages=81}}

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  • VMRO–DPMNE{{Cite web|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/macedonia.html|title=Parties and Elections in Europe|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|website=www.parties-and-elections.eu|access-date=2017-05-28}}
  • VMRO – People's Party{{cite web|url-status=dead|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.de/macedonia.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612071258/http://www.parties-and-elections.de/macedonia.html|archive-date=12 June 2010|year=2008|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|title=Macedonia|website=Parties and Elections in Europe}}

;{{flag|Norway}}

  • Christian People's Party{{Cite web|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/norway.html|title=Parties and Elections in Europe|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|website=www.parties-and-elections.eu|access-date=2017-05-28}}

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  • Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party{{Cite web|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/portugal.html|title=Parties and Elections in Europe|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|website=www.parties-and-elections.eu|access-date=2017-05-28}}

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;{{flag|Romania}}

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;{{flag|Saint Lucia}}

;{{flag|San Marino}}

;{{flag|São Tomé and Príncipe}}

;{{flag|Serbia}}

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;{{flag|Slovakia}}

  • Christian Democratic Movement{{Cite web|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/slovakia.html|title=Parties and Elections in Europe|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|website=www.parties-and-elections.eu|access-date=2017-05-28}}

;{{flag|Slovenia}}

;{{flag|South Africa}}

;{{flag|Spain}}

  • People's Party{{Cite web|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/spain.html|title=Parties and Elections in Europe|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|website=www.parties-and-elections.eu|access-date=2017-05-28}}
  • Basque Nationalist Party
  • Democrats of Catalonia{{cite web|url=http://parties-and-elections.eu/catalonia.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171212094036/http://parties-and-elections.eu/catalonia.html|archive-date=12 December 2017|title=Catalonia/Spain|website=Parties and Elections in Europe|year=2017|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|access-date=28 April 2019}}

;{{flag|Sweden}}

  • Christian Democrats{{Cite web|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/sweden.html|title=Parties and Elections in Europe|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|website=www.parties-and-elections.eu|access-date=2017-05-28}}

;{{flag|Switzerland}}

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;{{Flag|United Kingdom}}

  • Conservatives{{Cite news|date=2016-10-07|title=A Christian Democrat leadership for the UK|work=Financial Times|url=https://www.ft.com/content/8b3b58b4-8bc7-11e6-8cb7-e7ada1d123b1 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/8b3b58b4-8bc7-11e6-8cb7-e7ada1d123b1 |archive-date=2022-12-10 |url-access=subscription|access-date=2021-11-22}}{{Cite news|last=Stanley|first=Tim|date=2016-10-05|title=Theresa May has closed the liberal era. Bring on Christian democracy|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/05/theresa-may-has-closed-the-liberal-era-bring-on-christian-democr/|access-date=2021-11-22|issn=0307-1235}}
  • Christian Peoples AllianceFreston, Protestant Political Parties, 53.

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  • American Solidarity Party{{cite web |url=http://aleteia.org/2016/05/12/is-it-time-for-an-american-christian-democracy-party/ |title=Is It Time for a US Christian Democracy Party? |last=Longenecker |first=Dwight |date=12 May 2016 |publisher=Aleteia |language=en |access-date=4 July 2016}}
  • Prohibition Party

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