Katipunan ng Demokratikong Pilipino

Katipunan ng Demokratikong Pilipino (KDP) is a Philippine neonationalist political party founded in 2018. It was formed by supporters of incumbent President Rodrigo Duterte,[3] including some officers affiliated with the Citizen National Guard, a nationalist, anti-communist political advocacy group, including party chairman and former Department of Education undersecretary Butch Valdes, President Ramon Pedrosa, Executive Vice President Princess Lady Ann Indanan-Sahidulla, and Dr. Ricardo Fulgencio IV.[4] The party had fielded former Lieutenant General Antonio Parlade Jr. in the upcoming 2022 presidential election.[5]

Katipunan ng Demokratikong Pilipino
PresidentRamon A. Pedrosa
ChairmanAntonio A. S. Valdes
Secretary-GeneralDr. Ricardo D. Fulgencio IV
FoundedAugust 31, 2018
IdeologyNeonationalism[1]
Realism[2]
Federalism[1]
Political positionFar-right
SloganPartido para sa Kinabukasan
Seats in the Senate
0 / 24
Seats in the House of Representatives
0 / 303
Provincial governorships
0 / 81

The KDP is unrelated to the similarly named Katipunan ng mga Demokratikong Pilipino (Union of Democratic Filipinos), a United States-based Marxist–Leninist–Maoist group which had opposed the Ferdinand Marcos regime during the 1970s and 1980s.[6][7] The said group had by the 1980s merged into the Oakland-based Marxist–Leninist–Maoist organization Line of March,[8] later evolving into the Christian Social-Democratic Movement (CSDM).

Political positions

KDP has been described as "ultra-right".[9] KDP's electoral agenda for the 2019 elections were to "stop electoral fraud" by cancelling Smartmatic's contract with the Commission on Elections and reforming the electoral system, to prosecute those involved in the Dengvaxia controversy, and to reduce electrical bills by repealing the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) of 2001.[10] Economic nationalism figures significantly in the party platform and covers shifting from a service economy to an agro-industrialized producer economy, food self-sufficiency and the integration of the Philippines into the Belt and Road Initiative.[1][11] In addition, the party advocates a nonaligned,[1] realist approach to foreign-policymaking,[2] as well as econationalism and federalism.[1]

False claims on the Marcoses' stolen wealth

KDP's Facebook page posted false information regarding the Marcos family's stolen wealth. The group posted a video that made multiple false claims about Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos's Swiss bank accounts. The video also made misleading claims about the source of the Marcos's wealth.[12] A fact check of the video's false claims said that, in fact, the Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that the assets in question were ill-gotten wealth or stolen money.[12] The video received 28,000 interactions on KDP's Facebook page. Excerpts of KDP's incorrect video were shared by a Tiktok user in 2021 and generated 95,000 interactions and almost 876,000 views.[12]

Researchers noted that after Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. announced his candidacy for the presidency, claims praising his father, the late dictator and kleptocrat Ferdinand Marcos Sr., and his authoritarian regime increased significantly.[13]

Candidates for the 2019 general election

Senatorial slate

Local officials

Electoral performance

President
Election Candidate Number of votes Share of votes Outcome of election
2022 Antonio Parlade Jr. N/A N/A Not Included

Senate
Election Number of votes Share of votes Seats Outcome of election
2019 4,185,673 1.16%
0 / 12
 No seats
2022 N/A N/A N/A Supports Larry Gadon, RJ Javellana, Rey Valeros and Nur-Ana Sahidulla who are competing in the upcoming elections

House of Representatives
Election Number of votes Share of votes Seats Outcome of election
2019 116,453 0.29%
0 / 304
 No seats

References
  1. "Partido para sa kinabukasan". Katipunan ng Demokratikong Pilipino. November 11, 2021.
  2. Gía Samonte, Mauro (November 29, 2021). "Parladé, the Chosen One". Manila Times.
  3. "Pro-Du30 group forms political party". Manila Standard. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
  4. "Katipunan ng Demokratikong Pilipino political party launched". CNN Philippines. August 31, 2018. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
  5. "Ex-NTF-ELCAC spokesperson Antonio Parlade Jr runs for president". Rappler. November 15, 2021. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  6. Pimentel, Boying. "Small band of Fil-Ams and immigrants who defied a dictator". Inquirer.net. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
  7. "Katipunan ng mga Demokratikong Pilipino (KDP) records, 1966–1988".
  8. "Union of Democratic Filipinos". KeyWiki.
  9. Teehankee, Julio (January 2022). "The Legacy of the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan: Authoritarian Contamination in Philippine Party Politics" (PDF). Squarespace.
  10. "Katipunan Ng Demokratikong Pilipino". www.gavagives.com. Retrieved April 11, 2019.
  11. "Philippine LaRouche Society Head Butch Valdes and Others Launch New Political Party". Executive Intelligence Review. Retrieved February 5, 2020.
  12. "VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Video with multiple FALSE claims on Marcos' Swiss bank accounts back online". Vera Files. November 4, 2021. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  13. "VERA FILES FACT CHECK YEARENDER: Marcos Jr.'s presidential bid props up pro-Marcos propaganda". Vera Files. December 18, 2021. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
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