Christian Democracy - Notable Christian Democrats

Notable Christian Democrats

  • Konrad Adenauer, first chancellor of West Germany after World War II, and architect of the social market economy.
  • Giulio Andreotti, long-time Prime Minister of Italy.
  • Iuliu Maniu, former Prime Minister of Romania.
  • Patricio Aylwin, Chilean politician who served as president when Chile returned to democracy after the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
  • Jerzy Buzek, president of European Parliament since 2009.
  • Rafael Caldera, two-time Venezuelan president, and author.
  • Felipe Calderón, president of Mexico.
  • Alcide De Gasperi, Italian prime minister and pro-European leader.
  • Éamon de Valera, president and prime minister of Ireland, whose Constitution of Ireland was influenced by Catholic social teaching
  • José Napoleón Duarte, democratically-elected president of El Salvador during its Civil War.
  • Eddie Fenech Adami, former leader of the Nationalist Party in Malta (Partit Nazzjonalista); former prime minister and former President of the Republic of Malta.
  • Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean politician and former president.
  • Claudio Avelar, an politician and suppleant deputy in Brazil, member of Partido Trabalhista Cristão.
  • Helmut Kohl, chancellor of West Germany and later the unified Germany.
  • Abraham Kuyper, founder of the Netherlands' Anti Revolutionary Party (the first Christian democratic party), as well as the Neo-Calvinist Protestant movement, and a prime minister of the Netherlands.
  • Giorgio La Pira, Italian politician, from the left wing of Democrazia Cristiana.
  • Ruud Lubbers, a prime minister of the Netherlands and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
  • Wilfried Martens, former Prime Minister of Belgium, president of the European People's Party.
  • Kjell Magne Bondevik, former Prime Minister of Norway.
  • Angela Merkel, became, in 2005, the first female chancellor of Germany.
  • Oswaldo Payá, founder and leader of the dissident Cuban Christian Liberation Movement (Movimiento Cristiano de Liberación - MCL) (www.oswaldopaya.org). Died in a car accident in 2012. Has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Xabier Arzalluz, leader of the Basque Nationalist Party for two decades, until 2004.
  • Luigi Sturzo, Italian politician and one of the founders of the Partito Popolare Italiano in 1919.
  • Aldo Moro, prime minister of Italy, killed by the Brigate Rosse.
  • Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia
  • Mariano Rajoy, Prime Minister of Spain
  • Fidel V. Ramos, first Protestant president of the Catholic-dominated Philippines, and founder and chair emeritus of the political party Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats.
  • Herman Van Rompuy, first fixed-term President of the European Council.
  • Robert Schuman, French politician who has served both as head of government and foreign minister, leader of Popular Republican Movement; one of the founders of the European Union.
  • Wolfgang Schüssel, former Austrian chancellor.
  • Joaquín Balaguer, former President of the Dominican Republic.
  • Adone Zoli, former Prime Minister of Italy.
  • Aleksandar Vučić, Defence Minister of Serbia
  • Lech Wałęsa, Polish politician, trade-union organizer, and human-rights activist. A charismatic leader, he co-founded Solidarity, the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland 1990–95.
  • Lech Aleksander Kaczyński, President of Poland from 2005 until his sudden death in 2010.
  • Ludwig Windthorst, German politician and leader of Centre Party
  • Joseph Görres, German writer and journalist, co-founder of an idea of the political Catholic movement
  • José Maria Eymael, a Bazillian politician, lawyer, and businessman, and founder of the Partido Social Democrata Cristão (PSDC).

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