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Dominican Revolutionary Party
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Dominican Revolutionary Party |
| logo | 2023 logo of the Dominican Revolutionary Party.png |
| colorcode | |
| president | Miguel Vargas |
| general_secretary | Danilo Rafael Santos |
| spokesperson | Ruddy González (2014–present) |
| foundation | |
| ideology | Populism |
| **Factions:** | |
| Third Way | |
| headquarters | Avenida Jiménez Moya, Santo Domingo |
| international | Socialist International |
| website | |
| country | the Dominican Republic |
| native_name | Partido Revolucionario Dominicano |
| abbreviation | PRD |
| founder | Juan Bosch |
| slogan | *Soberania Nacional, Libertad, Democracia y Justicia Social* (National Sovereignty, Freedom, Democracy and Social Justice) |
| anthem | |
| membership_year | 2023 |
| membership | 280,000 |
| youth_wing | *Juventud Revolucionaria Dominicana* |
| position | Centre to centre-left |
| regional | Center-Democratic Integration Group |
| continental | COPPPAL |
| São Paulo Forum | |
| seats1_title | Chamber of Deputies |
| seats1 | |
| seats2_title | Senate |
| seats2 | |
| seats3_title | Mayors |
| seats3 | |
| seats4_title | Central American Parliament |
| seats4 | |
| colours | White |
| Light blue (customary) |
Factions: Third Way São Paulo Forum Light blue (customary)
The Dominican Revolutionary Party (, PRD) is a political party in the Dominican Republic. Traditionally a left-of-centre party and social democratic in nature, the party has shifted since the 2000s toward the political centre.
The party was founded in 1939 by several Dominican expatriated exiles living in Havana, Cuba, led by Juan Bosch. It was then established in the Dominican Republic on 5 July 1961. It was the first Dominican party based on populist and democratic leftist principles and an organization based on mass membership. Bosch was elected president in 1962 in what is generally believed to be the first honest election in the country's history. Bosch later left the party in a dispute over its ideological direction and founded the Dominican Liberation Party on 16 December 1973.
The PRD has won the presidency three other times—in 1978 (Antonio Guzmán), 1982 (Salvador Jorge Blanco) and 2000 (Hipólito Mejía).
At the legislative elections, on 16 May 2002, the party won 41.9% of the popular vote and 73 out of 150 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 29 out of 31 seats in the Senate of the Dominican Republic. Its candidate at the presidential election on 16 May 2004, Hipólito Mejía, won 33.6% of the votes, failing to win a second term.
In the 16 May 2006 legislative elections, the party formed together with its traditional opponent, the Social Christian Reformist Party, and others the Grand National Alliance, that won 82 out of 178 deputies and 10 out of 32 senators. The Dominican Revolutionary Party led the alliance, however, winning about 60 seats in the chamber of deputies and 6 in the Senate.
The party has been criticized for involvement in corruption, allowing right-wing paramilitary groups to operate from its soil for attacks launched into Haiti, and for becoming an increasingly conservative party serving the interests of transnational capital over the poor majority. The last PRD president, Hipólito Mejía, has been especially criticized for supporting the Iraq War.
Election history
Presidential elections
| Election | Party candidate | First round | Second round | Result | Votes | % | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1962](1962-dominican-republic-general-election) | Juan Bosch | 628,044 | 59.5% | **Elected** | ||||
| [1966](1966-dominican-republic-general-election) | 525,230 | 39.0% | **Lost** | |||||
| [1970](1970-dominican-republic-general-election) | Did not contest election | |||||||
| 1974 | ||||||||
| [1978](1978-dominican-republic-general-election) | Antonio Guzmán Fernández | 866,912 | 52.4% | **Elected** | ||||
| 1982 | Salvador Jorge Blanco | 854,868 | 46.7% | **Elected** | ||||
| 1986 | Jacobo Majluta | 828,209 | 39.2% | **Lost** | ||||
| 1990 | José Francisco Peña Gómez | 449,399 | 23.33% | **Lost** | ||||
| 1994 | 1,253,179 | 41.6% | **Lost** | |||||
| 1996 | 1,130,523 | 38.9% | 1,394,641 | 48.7% | **Lost** | |||
| 2000 | Hipólito Mejía | 1,593,231 | 49.87% | **Elected** | ||||
| 2004 | 1,215,928 | 33.7% | **Lost** | |||||
| 2008 | Miguel Vargas | 1,654,066 | 40.48% | **Lost** | ||||
| 2012 | Hipólito Mejía | 2,130,189 | 46.95% | **Lost** | ||||
| [2016](2016-dominican-republic-general-election) | Endorsed Danilo Medina (PLD) | 2,847,438 | 61.74% | **Elected** | ||||
| [2020](2020-dominican-republic-general-election) | Endorsed Gonzalo Castillo (PLD) | 1,536,989 | 37.46% | **Lost** | ||||
| [2024](2024-dominican-republic-general-election) | Miguel Vargas | 19,790 | 0.45% | **Lost** |
Congressional elections
| Election | Votes | % | Chamber seats | +/– | Position | Senate seats | +/– | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1962](1962-dominican-republic-general-election) | 592,088 | 56.5% | ||||||
| 49 | 1st | |||||||
| 22 | 1st | |||||||
| [1966](1966-dominican-republic-general-election) | 494,570 | 36.8% | ||||||
| 23 | 2nd | |||||||
| 17 | 2nd | |||||||
| [1970](1970-dominican-republic-general-election) | Did not contest election | 26 | *N/A* | 5 | *N/A* | |||
| 1974 | *N/A* | *N/A* | ||||||
| [1978](1978-dominican-republic-general-election) | 838,973 | 50.1% | 48 | 1st | 16 | 1st | ||
| 1982 | 825,005 | 45.7% | 14 | 1st | 1 | 1st | ||
| 1986 | 828,209 | 39.2% | 14 | 2nd | 10 | 2nd | ||
| 1990 | 447,605 | 23.4% | 15 | 3rd | 5 | 3rd | ||
| 1994 | 1,244,441 | 41.9% | 24 | 1st | 13 | 1st | ||
| [1998](1998-dominican-republic-parliamentary-election) | 1,075,306 | 51.4% | 26 | 1st | 9 | 1st | ||
| [2002](2002-dominican-republic-parliamentary-election) | 963,735 | 42.2% | 10 | 1st | 5 | 1st | ||
| [2006](2006-dominican-republic-parliamentary-election) | 931,151 | 31.13% | 10 | 2nd | 22 | 2nd | ||
| [2010](2010-dominican-republic-parliamentary-election) | 1,272,536 | 38.44% | 13 | 2nd | 7 | |||
| 2016 | 336,201 | 7.83% | 61 | 4th | 1 | 4th | ||
| [2020](2020-dominican-republic-general-election) | 220,939 | 5.52% | 12 | 4th | 1 | 5th | ||
| [2024](2024-dominican-republic-general-election) | 92,441 | 2.17% | 3 | 4th | 4th |
References
- Sprague, Jeb (2013) La Española, sus coaliciones y la solidaridad entre sus fronteras. In English here: Dominican Republic News
- http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/88549 Island of Hispaniola: Coalitions and cross-border solidarity
References
- (23 July 2014). "Ruddy González es el nuevo vocero diputados PRD". Proceso.
- (21 August 2023). "¿Realidad o exageración? Padrones del PRM, PLD, FP y PRD superan en total los 7 millones de militantes".
- Guzmán Then, Abel. (13 June 2014). "El PRD requiere de una seria reorientación ideológica hacia la izquierda democrática". Diario Libre.
- (November 2010). "Ramón Alburquerque: El PRD parece un partido neoliberal a la derecha del PLD.".
- "Busque sus Diputados". Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic.
- "Oficialismo dominicano gana mayoría legislativa y municipales (Dominican ruling party wins legislative and municipal majority)".
- (28 February 2010). "PRD deroga de estatutos el artículo 185, que impedía a Vargas postularse a la Presidencia". [[Listín Diario]].
- Sprague, 2013
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