The Christian Democratic Union () is a

Christian democratic Christian democracy is an ideology inspired by Christian social teaching to respond to the challenges of contemporary society and politics. Christian democracy has drawn mainly from Catholic social teaching and neo-scholasticism, as well ...

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...

of the

Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and ...

. It first contested national elections in 2002, when it received 0.2% of the vote in the parliamentary elections that year, Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p257 failing to win a seat. In the 2006 elections it was part of the victorious Progressive Bloc, but again failed to win a seat after receiving only 0.2% of the vote. In the 2010 elections its vote share fell to 0.1%.

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