Partido Demokratiko Pilipino

The Partido Demokratiko Pilipino (PDP, lit. 'Philippine Democratic Party') is a populist political party in the Philippines founded in 1982. It was previously known as Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan (PDP–Laban) from 1983 to 2024 as a result of a merger with 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 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 time in power in the 1980s and 1990s. Since Duterte's election as president, the PDP is generally seen to have strayed from its initial social democratic objectives and shifted towards populism and Dutertismo. Officially, Duterte has branded himself, and by extension the party, as sitting on the centre-left to left-wing. However, PDP's policies between 2016 and 2022, which included the Philippine drug war and the proposed reinstatement of the death penalty, has led it to be labelled as populist, syncretic, or "ideologically malleable." Duterte has been branded a right-wing populist by many observers, while the party has been described as having a synthesis of left-wing populist rhetoric and right-wing populist policy.