Possibilist Democratic Party

{{Expand Spanish|topic=hist|fa=yes|date=December 2017|Partido Demócrata Posibilista}} {{Infobox political party | name = Possibilist Democratic Party | native_name = Partido Demócrata Posibilista | leader = [[Emilio Castelar]] | country = Spain | split = [[Federal Democratic Republican Party]] | merged = [[Liberal Party (Spain, 1880)|Liberal Party]] | colorcode = {{party color|Possibilist Democratic Party}} | foundation = {{Start date|1879}} | dissolved = May 1893 | ideology = [[Liberalism]]<br/>[[Republicanism in Spain|Republicanism]]<br/>[[Progressivism]] | state = Spain }}

The '''Democratic Party''' ({{langx|es|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, 1879|Spanish general election held in the same year]]. In 1884 it was renamed as the '''Possibilist Democratic Party''' ({{langx|es|Partido Demócrata Posibilista}}, PDP).

In 1893 most of it merged into the [[Liberal Party (Spain, 1880)|Liberal Party]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historiaelectoral.com/e1800r.html |title=Republicans 1868-1931 |language=Spanish |website=historiaelectoral.com |publisher=Electoral History |accessdate=26 December 2016}}</ref>

==See also== *[[Liberalism and radicalism in Spain]]

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[[Category:Defunct political parties in Spain]] [[Category:Defunct liberal political parties]] [[Category:Political parties established in 1879]] [[Category:Political parties disestablished in 1893]] [[Category:Radical parties]] [[Category:Republican parties in Spain]] [[Category:1879 establishments in Spain]] [[Category:1893 disestablishments in Spain]]

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