National Citizen Will Party

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.

National Citizen Will Party Partido Nacional Voluntad Ciudadana
President	Juan Cohen
Founder	Federico Marte Pichardo
Founded	10 May 1973
Ideology	Christian democracy Social conservatism
Political position	Right-wing
Website
pnvc.org
Politics of the Dominican Republic Political parties Elections

The party first contested national elections in 1982 when it won 1.6% of the vote, but failed to win a seat. 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.

Further reading

• Sánchez, Benito; Belén, Ana (June 2015). "Pactos, alianzas electorales y trashumancias: Patrones de la cooperación estratégica en el sistema de partidos de la República Dominicana" [Pacts, Electoral Alliances and Party Shifting: Models of Strategic Cooperation in the Dominican Party System]. Política y gobierno (in Spanish). 22 (1): 87–123.
• "Ramfis exhorta preservar los principios cristianos y la lectura de la Biblia en el país" [Ramfis urges the preservation of Christian principles and the reading of the Bible in the country]. Z 101 Digital (in Spanish). 27 September 2019.

External links

• Official website