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Óscar Alzaga
Óscar Alzaga (born 29 May 1942) is a Spanish jurist, academic and politician. He is the founder of People's Democratic Party. Until 1987 he was an active politician in Spain. Biography Alzaga was born in Madrid on 29 May 1942. He received a degree in law from the University of Madrid in 1964 and a PhD degree from Autonomous University of Madrid in 1972. From 1969 Alzaga started his academic career at Autonomous University of Madrid. In the Francoist Spain he was part of the Tácito group which was a tolerated opposition movement. Alzaga joined the Union of the Democratic Centre, an election alliance, in 1977 general elections being part of the Christian Democratic Party. He was among those who criticised the Union of the Democratic Centre in terms of its approach towards the center-right politics Centre-right politics is the set of right-wing political ideologies that lean closer to the political centre. It is commonly associated with conservatism, Christian democracy, lib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
People's Democratic Party (Spain)
The People's Democratic Party (, PDP), renamed as Christian Democracy (, DC) from March 1988 until it merged into the People's Party (Spain), People's Party in June 1989, was a Christian democracy, Christian-democratic List of political parties in Spain, political party in Spain. History In August 1982, 13 deputies under the leadership of Óscar Alzaga split from the Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain), Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) and founded the PDP, entering into alliance with the Popular Alliance (Spain), People's Alliance (AP), which received the second largest number of votes in the Spanish general election, 1982, 1982 and Spanish general election, 1986, 1986 general elections. The party President was Óscar Alzaga until 1987, then Javier Rupérez led the party into a merger with AP and PL. Jaime Mayor Oreja, subsequently a leading PP politician, was a leading member of PDP. The PDP was a member of the European People's Party from 1986 onwards. In 1988, the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
