The Spanish Democratic Party (Spanish: Partido Demócrata Español; PADE) was a conservative political party in Spain, created as a split from the centre-right People's Party in 1996. Its chairman was Juan Ramón Calero Rodríguez, former PP spokesperson in Congress.

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Spanish Democratic Party Partido Demócrata Español
President	Juan Ramón Calero
Founded	1996
Dissolved	10 May 2008
Split from	PP
Headquarters	C/ Francisco Silvela, 77 28028 Madrid, Spain
Ideology	Conservatism Christian humanism
Political position	Right-wing to far-right
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It regarded itself as being to the right of the People's Party, with some sources regarding it as a far-right party.^[1] This was denied by the party,^[2] which described itself as christian humanist, liberal-reformist and moderate.