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.<ref name="Monsma2012">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Witte1993">Template:Cite book</ref> 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,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Refn generally supporting a social market economy.Template:Sfn 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.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> 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.Template:CN
Alphabetical list by country
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A
- Christian Democratic Party<ref name=":4" />
- Christian-Democratic Rebirth Party<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Christian Democratic Union of Armenia
- National Christian Party
- Austrian People's Party<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
B
- Christian Democratic and Flemish<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Christian Social Party
- ProDG<ref name=":0"/>
- Citizens' Movement for Change
- Christian Democratic Party<ref name=":4" />
- Croatian Democratic Union 1990<ref name=":1">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina<ref name=":1" />
- Croatian Christian Democrats
- Union of Democratic Forces
- Christ Democratic Party of Bulgaria
- Reformist Bloc<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
C
- Movement for Democracy
- União Caboverdeana Independente e Democratica (Cape Verdean Union for an Independent Democracy) – UCID
- Christian Democratic Party<ref name=":4" />
- Christian National Party
- Christians for Community
- Christian Social Democratic Party<ref name=":4" />
- Christian Democratic Party<ref name=":4" />
- Reform Party<ref name=":4" />
- Social Christian Unity Party
- Social Christian Republican Party
- Christian Democratic Alliance
- Croatian Democratic Union<ref name=":3">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Homeland Movement
- Croatian Christian Democratic Party<ref name=":3" />
- Croatian Sovereignists
- Democratic Rally<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- KDU-ČSL<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
D
- Christian Democratic Party (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Convention of Christian Democrats
- Democratic Social Christian Party
- Federalist Christian Democracy – Convention of Federalists for Christian Democracy
- Movement for the Liberation of the Congo
- Christian Democratic Union
- Christian Democratic Party<ref name=":4" />
- Social Christian Reformist Party
E
- Christian Democratic Party (Ecuador)<ref name=":4" />
- Social Christian Party
- Christian Democratic Party (Egypt), a Coptic party in Egypt founded in the 1950s.<ref>Democracy Won’t Save the Middle East’s Religious Minorities. Maged Atiya. October 24, 2019. Providence Magazine.</ref>
- Christian Democratic Party<ref name=":4" />
F
- Christian Democrats<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
G
- Christian Democratic Union of Germany<ref name=":2">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Christian Social Union in Bavaria<ref name=":2" />
- Centre Party
- Family Party of Germany
- Alliance C – Christians for Germany
H
- Christian Democratic Party of Honduras<ref name=":4" />
I
- Fine Gael<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Fianna Fáil<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Forza Italia<ref name="Italy" />
- Popular Alternative
- Populars for Italy
- Solidary Democracy
- South Tyrolean People's Party<ref name="Italy">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Union of the Centre<ref name="Italy" />
- Us Moderates
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L
- Fatherland Union<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Lithuanian Christian Democracy Party
- Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats<ref name="Lithuania">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania<ref name="Lithuania" />
- Christian Union
- National Alliance
M
- Nationalist Party<ref name="Netherlands"/>
- National Action Party<ref name=":4">Template:Cite book</ref>
N
- Alliance
- Christian Democratic Appeal<ref name="Netherlands">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Christian Union<ref name="Netherlands" />
- Farmer–Citizen Movement
- New Social Contract
- Jezus Leeft
- Social Christian Party<ref name=":4" />
- VMRO–DPMNE<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- VMRO – People's Party<ref name="PEE">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Christian People's Party<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
P
- People's Party<ref name=":4" />
- Christian Democratic Party<ref name=":4" />
- Christian People's Party<ref name=":4" />
- Christian Democracy (DC)
- Lakas–CMD (Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats)
- Bangon Pilipinas Party
- Centrist Democratic Party of the Philippines
- Liberal Party (Philippines) (factions)
- Agreement
- Christian Democracy of the 3rd Polish Republic
- Civic Platform<ref name="Poland">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Law and Justice
- Polish People's Party<ref name="Poland" />
R
- Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party
- National Liberal Party
- Force of the Right
- People's Movement Party<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
S
- Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party<ref name="San Marino">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Union for the Republic<ref name="San Marino" />
- Christian Democratic Movement<ref name="Slovakia">Template:Cite web</ref>
- New Slovenia – Christian Democrats<ref name="Slovenia">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Slovenian People's Party<ref name="Slovenia" />
- People's Party<ref name="Spain">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Basque Nationalist Party<ref name="Spain" />
- Democrats of Catalonia<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Christian Democrats<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Christian Social Party of Obwalden<ref name="Switzerland">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland<ref name="Switzerland" />
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- Conservatives<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Christian Peoples Alliance<ref name="frestontwp">Freston, Protestant Political Parties, 53.</ref>
- American Solidarity Party<ref name="LongeneckerAleteia">Template:Cite web</ref>
- Prohibition Party
- National Party<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Christian Democratic Party of Uruguay<ref name=":4" />
V
- Project Venezuela<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Political Electoral Independent Organization Committee (COPEI)<ref name=":4" />
- National Convergence
Other entities
- Global – Centrist Democrat InternationalTemplate:Spaced ndashheadquartered in Brussels
- European Union – European People's PartyTemplate:Spaced ndashCentrist Democratic regional in Europe; and the largest group in European Parliament
European Christian Political Party - Americas – Christian Democrat Organization of AmericaTemplate:Spaced ndashCentrist Democratic regional in the Americas, North and South
Related philosophies
- Catholic social teaching
- Communitarianism
- Distributism
- Neo-Calvinism
- Social conservatism
- Social market economy
- Political Catholicism
- Christian politics
- Christian Zionism
- Liberal conservatism
- Abolitionism
- New World Order