Partito Democratico Costituzionale

Partito Democratico Costituzionale
Abbreviation	PDC
Leader	Antonio Visciglia
Founded	1705 AN (2022)
Headquarters	Cossa, Republic of Vegno
Ideology	Social Liberalism, Liberalism (center to center-left)
Assemblea Nazionale	12 / 150

The Partito Democratico Costituzionale (PDC), known in istvanistani as Democratic Constitutional Party, is a Vegnese social liberal party founded in 1705 AN at the end of the constitutional works. The Gioventù Democratica is the youth wing of the party.

History

The party was born as the home of the socioliberals of Vegno, with the aim of winning the presidency in the first national elections.

At the end of the 1706 Vegno Elections, the PDC becomes part of the ruling coalition, with its leader Antonio Visciglia that was elected as president.

The Taurasi Resolution (1721)

After three consecutive electoral defeats - in 1709, 1714 and 1716 - and with the loss of a large chunk of votes to other factions in the same area, slipping from the third to the fifth most voted party in the country, the National Congress of the PDC met in Taurasi in 1721, at the dawn of new national elections.

Considering the critical situation, the party members voted by a large majority for a resolution - renamed the Summer Resolution or the Taurasi Resolution - instructing the secretary Antonio Visciglia to reform the party 'in order to counter the country's nationalist drift with more vigour', creating a 'wide-ranging' political project involving the other opposition parties of democratic and liberal inspiration. In the same week, the leader issued an 'appeal for unity', addressing in particular Vegno Vivo, asking them to recompose in the Democratic Union, a new political formation that could take part in the 1721 elections. The same appeal, not without controversy, was also extended to I Verdi and the Communist Party, urging the former to 'abandon the far-right coalition' and the latter to 'agree to unite in a more heterogeneous party for the good of the country', as quoted in press releases.

Ideology

The party emphasizes mutual collaboration through liberal institutions, endorses a market economy and aims to insure a "positive liberty", seeking to enhance the "positive freedoms" of the poor and disadvantaged in society by means of government regulation.

The PDC supports a mixed economy of mainly private enterprise with some state provided or guaranteed public services (ex: obligatory universal health insurance, with the state paying a basic health insurance to the most poor of the society) and strongly defends human rights and civil liberties. The party is opposed to isolationism and pushes for a foreign policy that can quickly place the nation in a diplomatically dominant role on the continent.

Leadership

Party leader is commonly referred as Segretario Nazionale and is elected through internal primaries. The term of office is not specified, but party members can vote a motion of no confidence against their leader at any time.

Party Leaders

Leader	Period	Notes
Antonio Visciglia	1705 -	founder

Election results

Presidential elections

Election year	Candidate	First Round			Second Round
		Votes	%	Rank	Votes	%	Rank
1706 AN	Antonio Visciglia	310,548	22%	2nd	830,603	56	1st (elected)
1709 AN	Antonio Visciglia	310.642	14,69%	4th	N/A	N/A	N/A

Legislative elections

Assemblea Nazionale
Election year	Votes	%	Seats	+/−	Leader
1706 AN	290,736 (3rd)	21%	21 / 100	▲ 21	Antonio Visciglia
1709 AN	310.642 (4th)	13,75%	21 / 150	0	Antonio Visciglia
1714 AN	232.883 (5th)	10,22%	18 / 150	▼3	Antonio Visciglia
1716 AN	164.971 (5th)	7,24%	9 / 150	▼9	Antonio Visciglia
1721 AN	298,085 (4th)	9.66%	12 / 150	▲ 3	Antonio Visciglia