The 1964 presidential election of Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Montalva by an absolute majority initiated a period of major reform.

In December 1993, Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, the son of previous president Eduardo Frei Montalva, led the Concertación coalition to victory with an absolute majority of votes ( 58 %).

The political parties with the largest representation in the current Chilean Congress are the centrist Christian Democrat Party and the conservative Independent Democratic Union ( Unión Demócrata Independiente ).

The current Senate composition is as follows: 20 seats are held by the Coalition of Parties for Democracy ( CPD ): Six Christian Democrats ( PDC ), eight Socialists ( PS ), three Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and three Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 17 by the Alliance for Chile ( APC ): nine Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and eight National Renewal ( RN ); and one independent leaning right.

The current lower house — the Chamber of Deputies — contains 65 members of the governing coalition: 21 Christian Democrats ( PDC ), 15 Socialists ( PS ), 22 Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and seven Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 54 from the center-right Alliance for Chile ( APC ): 34 Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and 20 National Renewal ( RN ); and 1 from the Independent Regional Force ( FRI ) coalition: 1 Regionalist Action Party of Chile ( PAR ).

The Christian Democrat group was the biggest group at formation, but as time wore on it lost support and was the second-biggest group by the time of the 1979 elections.

As the Community expanded into the Union, the centre-right in the new member states were not necessarily Christian Democrat and the EPP ( European People's Party, the transnational political party founded in 1976 which all group members are now affiliated to ) feared being sidelined.

Gerhard Schröder led the coalition of SPD and Greens to an eleven-seat victory over the Christian Democrat challengers headed by Edmund Stoiber ( CSU ).

The CDU quickly announced Angela Merkel as Christian Democrat candidate for chancellor, aspiring to be the first female chancellor in German history.

The alliance was especially close in the late 1980s and early 1990s under the leadership of Christian Democrat Helmut Kohl and Socialist François Mitterrand.

However, despite the recognition he enjoyed within the Christian Democrat parliamentary faction, he was passed over during various cabinet reshuffles.

One of his low points as Chancellor was in 1968 when Nazi-hunter Beate Klarsfeld, who campaigned with her husband Serge Klarsfeld against Nazi criminals, publicly slapped him in the face during the 1968 Christian Democrat convention, while calling him a Nazi.

Notable examples are the International Workingmen's Association ( also called the First International ), the Socialist International ( also called the Second International ), the Communist International ( also called the Third International ), and the Fourth International, as organizations of working class parties, or the Liberal International ( yellow ), Hizb ut-Tahrir, Christian Democratic International and the International Democrat Union ( blue ).

Several major political parties of the pre-war era, such as the National Christian Democrat Peasant's Party ( PNŢCD ), the National Liberal Party ( PNL ) and the Romanian Social Democrat Party ( PSDR ) were resurrected.

The group's most infamous act took place in 1978, when the second groups of the BR, headed by Mario Moretti, kidnapped the former Christian Democrat Prime Minister Aldo Moro, who was trying to reach a compromesso storico, or " historic compromise ", with the Communists.

In 1978, the Second BR, headed by Mario Moretti, kidnapped and murdered Christian Democrat Aldo Moro, who was the key figure in negotiations aimed at extending the Government's parliamentary majority, by attaining a Historic Compromise between the Italian Communist Party and the Democrazia Cristiana.

Vicente Fox Quesada </ small > (; born July 2, 1942 ) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as President of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006 and currently serves as co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of Christian democratic political parties.

* May 15 – Pope Leo XIII issues the encyclical Rerum Novarum, resulting in the creation of many Christian Democrat Parties throughout Europe.

In December 1945 Christian Democrat Alcide De Gasperi was appointed Prime Minister of Italy.

Moreover often, if the government was led by a centre-right Christian Democrat, the party was led by a left-winger and viceversa.

While the far-right National Front grew, taking advantage of a proportional representation electoral law, he signed an electoral platform with the Giscardian ( and more or less Christian Democrat ) party Union for French Democracy ( UDF ).

He was a cousin of Francesco Cossiga ( who was a leader of the Italian Christian Democrats and later became a President of the Italian Republic ), and both were relatives of Antonio Segni, another Christian Democrat leader and President of the Republic.

There have been three Christian Democrat presidents in the past, Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Patricio Aylwin, and Eduardo Frei Montalva.

The political direction of the campaign fell on the Christian Democratic leader, Patricio Aylwin, and Ricardo Lakes from the PPD.

In June 1989, the Coalition appointed the Christian democrat Patricio Aylwin as its standard bearer for the presidential elections.

The UDI's option lost the 1989 presidential election, this time against the center-left Concertación's leader, the Christian Democrat Patricio Aylwin.

In that year, the coalition changed their name to Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia (" Concert of Parties for Democracy ") and put forward Patricio Aylwin, the Christian Democrat leader, as a presidential candidate, as well as launching a common list for the parliamentary elections.

Patricio Aylwin Azócar ( born November 26, 1918 ) is a Chilean Christian Democrat politician, lawyer and former senator.

María Soledad Alvear Valenzuela ( born September 17, 1950 ), is a Chilean lawyer and Christian Democrat politician, who was a cabinet member of the Aylwin, Frei and Lagos administrations.

If the candidate relies on sponsors, the celebrant asks them if they will raise the child in " the Christian faith and life " ( ECUSA BCP ), and will raise the child through " prayers and witness to grow into the full stature of Christ " to which the parents will state to each, " I will, with God's help.

While John the Baptist's use of a deep river for his baptism suggests immersion, pictorial and archaeological evidence of Christian baptism from the 3rd century onward indicates that a normal form was to have the candidate stand in water while water was poured over the upper body.

No presidential candidate obtained a majority, so a run-off election between the top two candidates-Quito Mayor Jamil Mahuad of the DP and Social Christian Álvaro Noboa Pontón-was held on July 12, 1998.

Ríos Montt had been the candidate of the Christian Democracy Party in the 1974 presidential election and was widely regarded as having been denied his own victory through fraud.

Vinicio Cerezo, a civilian politician and the presidential candidate of the Christian Democracy Party, won the first election held under the new constitution with almost 70 % of the vote, and took office on January 14, 1986.

For this reason, the meaning of baptism itself and infant baptism in particular depends greatly upon the Christian tradition to which the baptismal candidate belongs.

In 1997, Al Sharpton, a Christian minister and a candidate for the 2004 presidential election, who had also taken part in other Unification Church events and holidays, took part in a blessing ceremony at RFK Stadium, Washington, D. C., as a wedding-vow renewal with his wife.

Brandt was the SPD candidate for the Chancellorship in 1961, but he lost to Konrad Adenauer's conservative Christian Democratic Union of Germany ( CDU ).

In 1964, once more as the FRAP candidate, he lost again, polling 38. 6 % of the votes against 55. 6 % for Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei.

On 4 September 1970, he obtained a narrow plurality of 36. 2 percent to 34. 9 percent over Jorge Alessandri, a former president, with 27. 8 percent going to a third candidate ( Radomiro Tomic ) of the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ), whose electoral platform was similar to Allende's.

In 1964, the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) candidate, José Napoleon Duarte, an engineer, was elected mayor.

Members of the Christian right are willing to do the electoral work needed to see their candidate elected.

The leading parties in 1994 were the PRSC, linked to the International Christian Democratic political movement, whose candidate was President Joaquín Balaguer ; the PRD, affiliated with the Socialist International, whose candidate was José Francisco Peña Gómez ; and the Dominican Liberation Party ( PLD ), whose candidate was former President Juan Bosch.

The Khalif of Tunis, Muhammad I al-Mustansir, also had connections with Christian Spain and was considered a good candidate for conversion.

As the candidate of the two Christian Democratic sister parties, the CDU and the CSU, and the liberal FDP, Köhler was elected to his first five-year term by the Federal Assembly on 23 May 2004 and was subsequently inaugurated on 1 July 2004.

The Christian Coalition of America ( CCA ), a 501 ( c )( 4 ) organization, is the successor to the original Christian Coalition created in 1989 by religious broadcaster and former presidential candidate Marion Gordon " Pat " Robertson, and is a US Christian advocacy group, which includes Christian fundamentalists, neo-evangelicals and conservative charismatics.

The deal, which was heavily criticised by the Swedish Social Democratic Party, meant that each party had its own voting ticket but that the Centre Party should nominate a Christian Democratic candidate on at least 5 of the regional candidacy lists.

Support of the Christian democrats significantly declined in the European elections of 2009, where the former party leader Alf Svensson got the party's sole seat in the European Parliament at the expense of the party's top candidate Ella Bohlin.