Possibilist Democratic Party | |
Native Name: | Partido Demócrata Posibilista |
Leader: | Emilio Castelar |
Country: | Spain |
Merged: | Liberal Party |
Dissolved: | May 1893 |
Ideology: | Liberalism Republicanism Progressivism |
State: | Spain |
The Democratic Party (Spanish; Castilian: Partido Demócrata, PD) was a Spanish political party created in 1879 by former Emilio Castelar as a split from the Federal Democratic Republican Party to contest the Spanish general election held in the same year. In 1884 it was renamed as the Possibilist Democratic Party (Spanish; Castilian: Partido Demócrata Posibilista, PDP).
In 1893 most of it merged into the Liberal Party.[1]