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Democratic Action Party Partido de Acción Democrática | |
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President | Francisco Fernández Ordóñez |
Founded | 4 November 1981 |
Dissolved | 23 January 1983 |
Split from | Union of the Democratic Centre |
Merged into | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party |
Headquarters | C/ Padilla, 1, Madrid |
Ideology |
Social democracy
[1] Secularism [1] Progressivism [1] |
The Democratic Action Party ( Spanish: Partido de Acción Democrática, PAD) was a Spanish political party of social democratic ideology. [2] [3] [4]
It was founded by former justice minister Francisco Fernández Ordóñez in November 1981 and was formed by 17 parliamentarians—10 deputies and 7 senators—that had left the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) due to its conservative political positions. [5] The PAD reached an electoral agreement with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) ahead of the 1982 Spanish general election. [6] [7] The party was dissolved in 1983 and the majority of its members joined the PSOE. [8]