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People's Party (Spain)

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People's Party
Partido Popular
Founded20 January 1989 (1989-01-20)
Ideology
Political positionCentre-right[8][9] to right-wing[10]

The People's Party[11] (Spanish: Partido Popular [paɾˈtiðo popuˈlaɾ] (audio speaker iconlisten); known mostly by its acronym, PP [peˈpe]) is a conservative[1][2] and Christian-democratic[2][6] political party in Spain.

The People's Party was founded in 1989 from the People's Alliance (AP). This party was created as a more centre-right party instead of a far-right party.[2]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Ersson, Svante; Lane, Jan-Erik (1998). Politics and Society in Western Europe (4th ed.). SAGE. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-7619-5862-8. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Hloušek, Vít; Kopeček, Lubomír (2010). Origin, Ideology and Transformation of Political Parties: East-Central and Western Europe Compared. Ashgate. p. 159. ISBN 978-0-7546-7840-3. From its original emphasis on a 'united and Catholic Spain', in the 1980s and 1990s it gradually evolved under the leadership of José Maria Aznar into a pragmatically-oriented conservative formation, with Christian democratic and, even more strongly, economically liberal elements.
  3. Resende, Madalena Meyer (3 October 2014). Catholicism and Nationalism: Changing Nature of Party Politics. ISBN 9781317610618.
  4. Inmaculada Egido (2005). Transforming Education: The Spanish Experience. Nova Publishers. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-59454-208-4.
  5. Fernando Reinares (2014). "The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings". In Bruce Hoffman; Fernando Reinares (eds.). The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat: From 9/11 to Osama bin Laden's Death. Columbia University Press. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-231-53743-8.
  6. 6.0 6.1 Magone, José María (2003). The Politics of Southern Europe: Integration Into the European Union. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 145. ISBN 978-0-275-97787-0.
  7. Philip Arestis; Malcolm C. Sawyer (2001). The Economics of the Third Way: Experiences from Around the World. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-84376-283-6.
  8. "Batalla decisiva en el centroderecha". El País. 2021-03-14.
  9. Ávila López, E. (2016) Modern Spain, p. 85 ISBN 978-1-61069-600-5