The Christian Social Party (, , CSP) 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, ...

operating in the

German-speaking Community of Belgium The German-speaking Community (, , DG), also known as East Belgium ( ), is one of the three Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium, federal communities of Belgium. The community is composed of nine municipalities in Liège Province, ...

. Its president is Luc Frank. In the

2004 European Parliament election The 2004 European Parliament election was held between 10 and 13 June 2004 in the 25 member states of the European Union, using varying election days according to local custom. The European Parliamental parties could not be voted for, but elect ...

, standing as ''Christlich-Soziale Partei - Europäische Volkspartei'', the party gained the single seat allocated by Belgian law to the German-speaking community. The party has maintained this seat since then. The CSP works with its Francophone counterpart

Les Engagés (LE, , ) is a centrist French-speaking political party in Belgium. The party originated in the split in 1972 of the unitary Christian Social Party (PSC-CVP), which had been the country's governing party for much of the post-war period. It con ...

in other elections.

Election results

Parliament of the German-speaking Community

European Parliament

Members

* Robert J. Houben (1905–1992)

Party logo

File:Partei CSP.svg, Logo before 2014. Orange is the traditional Christian democratic colour in Belgium. File:Christian Social Party (Belgium, 1971).png, Logo since 2014. Note the addition of the lion, symbolizing Belgium's German-speaking Community.

References

External links

Official site
Political parties in the German-speaking Community of Belgium Christian democratic parties in Belgium {{Belgium-party-stub