PDP–Laban

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The Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban, lit. 'Philippine Democratic Party-Strength of the Nation'), is a Dutertist populist political party in the Philippines founded in 1982. The party is the result of a merger between Partido Demokratiko Pilipino (PDP) and Lakas ng Bayan (Laban). It was part of the country's ruling party coalition from 1986 to 1992 under the administration of Corazon Aquino and served as the country's ruling party from 2016 to 2022 under the administration of Rodrigo Duterte. Nominally democratic socialist and social democratic, the party has shifted considerably since its first period in power during the 1980s and 1990s. Since Chairman Duterte's election as president, the PDP is generally seen as having strayed from its initial social democratic objectives and shifted toward populism and Dutertismo. Officially, Chairman Duterte has branded himself, and by extension the party, as occupying the centre-left to left-wing. However, the PDP's policies between...

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