Democratic Action Party (Spain)

For other uses, see Democratic Action Party (disambiguation).

The Democratic Action Party (Spanish: Partido de Acción Democrática, PAD) was a Spanish political party of social democratic ideology.^[2][3][4]

Democratic Action Party Partido de Acción Democrática
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]
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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]