National Citizen Will Party
Partido Nacional Voluntad Ciudadana
PresidentJuan Cohen
FounderFederico Marte Pichardo
Founded10 May 1973
IdeologyChristian democracy
Social conservatism
Political positionRight-wing

The National Citizen Will Party (Spanish: Partido Nacional Voluntad Ciudadana, PNVC), formerly known as the National Civic Veterans Party, is a minor Christian-democratic and social-conservative political party in the Dominican Republic. It was founded on 10 May 1973 by Sergeant Federico Marte Pichardo, under the initiative of then-President Joaquin Balaguer, and was renamed on 8 March 2015. It is currently directed by Juan Cohen.

The party first contested national elections in 1982 when it won 1.6% of the vote, but failed to win a seat.[1] For the 1986 and 1990 elections it was part of the victorious Social Christian Reformist Party-led coalition. For the 1994 elections it changed its allegiance to the Dominican Revolutionary Party-led coalition that won the Congressional elections but lost the presidential vote. It contested the 2002 elections alone, but failed to win a seat after receiving only 0.5% of the vote. For the 2006 elections it was part of the defeated Grand National Alliance.

References

  1. ↑ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, pp255-257 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6

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