The Christian Democrat and People's Parties International (IDC-CDI) is the global political international dedicated to the promotion of Christian democracy. There are slighlty more than 100 members, drawn principally from Europe and Latin America. A significant portion of CDI member parties are also members of the International Democrat Union, although in general the international is closer to the political centre and more statist than the IDU. Christian Democracy is a political ideology, born at the end of the 19th century, largely as a result of the papal encyclical Rerum Novarum of Pope Leo XIII, in which the Vatican recognizes workers misery and agrees that something should be done about it, in reaction to the rise of... The International Democrat Union is an international grouping of conservative and, in some cases, Christian democratic parties. ... Statism is a term to describe an economic system where a government implements a significant degree of centralized economic planning or intervention, as opposed to a system where the overwhelming majority of economic planning occurs at a decentralized level by private individuals in a relatively free market. ...
The International's European wing, the European People's Party, is the largest political party at the European level. Its Latin American regional is the Christian Democrat Organisation of America. The European Peoples Party is a Christian democrat-conservative political party at European level founded in 1976. ... A European political party, or formally a political party at European level, is a type of political party organization in the European Union, eligible to receive funding from the Union. ...
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ChristianDemocrats are usually socially conservative, and, as such, many ChristianDemocrats are opposed to abortion and same-sex marriage, although some ChristianDemocratic parties have accepted the legalization of both, within certain limits.
ChristianDemocratic parties are often likely to assert the Christian heritage of their country, and to explicitly affirm Christian ethics, rather than adopting a more liberal and secular stance that all religions are to be considered equivalent.
ChristianDemocrats in the country have been known for their advocacy of a shift from the present presidential system to a parliamentary form of government through constitutional amendments and through establishing peace talks with Muslim separatists and communist rebels.
The ChristianDemocrat Party of Chile (Partido Demócrata Cristiano de Chile) is a political party in Chile and governs as part of the Coalition of Parties for Democracy coalition.
There have been three ChristianDemocrat presidents in the past, Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Patricio Aylwin, and Eduardo Frei Montalva.
The ChristianDemocrat Party is the single largest political entity with governmental power within Chile.
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