Dominican Revolutionary Party

The Dominican Revolutionary Party ( Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, or PRD sp ) is one of the main political parties of the Dominican Republic and is oriented social democratic. The color of the party is white.

The party was founded in 1939 by Dominican exiles in Havana, led by Juan Bosch. The founding of the party in the Dominican Republic took place in 1961. It was the first Dominican Party, which built on populist principles and an organization built on the broad masses was. Bosch was elected president in 1962, he now thought he was the first honest elected head of state. Later Bosch left the party in the dispute over the future direction and founded the Dominican Liberation Party.

The PRD won the presidency three more times: in 1978 with Antonio Guzmán, 1982 Salvador Jorge Blanco and 2000 with Hipólito Mejía.

At the legislative elections on 16 May 2002, the party won 41.9 % of the vote and 73 of 150 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 29 of 31 seats in the Senate. The candidate of the PRD on the presidential elections on 16 May 2004 Hipólito Mejía won 33.6 % of the vote and missed a second term.

In the elections of the legislature on May 16, the party merged with their traditional rivals, the Social Christian Reformistenpartei and parts of the Great National Alliance, which won 82 out of 178 deputies and 10 of 32 senators. The Dominican Revolutionary Party led the alliance won 60 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 6 in the Senate.