Democratic Action Party (Spain)
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PresidentFrancisco Fernández Ordóñez
Founded4 November 1981
Dissolved23 January 1983
SplitfromUnion of the Democratic Centre
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]