The Democratic Party of National Confidence (Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

: Partido Demócrata de Confianza Nacional - PDCN) is a Nicaraguan political party founded by Agustín Jarquín and Adán Fletes after a split from Social Christian Party

Nicaraguan Social Christian Party

The Social Christian Party is a Nicaraguan political party with Christian democrat ideology founded in 1957. As of 2006, the PSC is part of the Sandinista Renovation Movement alliance in the Nicaraguan general election, 2006....

 (PSC) in 1986. The PDCN received legal status on appeal in 1989. It was part of the National Opposition Union

National Opposition Union

National Opposition Union was a wide-range cartel of opposition parties formed to contest Nicaragua's president Daniel Ortega in 1990 election. Its candidate Violeta Chamorro eventually won the race...

 (UNO) coalition in 1990 and had 5 seats (of UNO's 51) in the National Assembly. Jarquín was the Sandinista National Liberation Front

Sandinista National Liberation Front

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 (FSLN) vice-presidential candidate in the 2001 elections. In 1992 the PDCN and the Popular Social Christian Party

Popular Social Christian Party

The Popular Social Christian Party , a 1978 off-shoot of the Social Christian Party is a Nicaraguan political party. The PPSC got 6 seats in the 1984 Legislative elections and 3 seats seats in the 1990 elections. In 1992 the PPSC and the Democratic Party of National Confidence formed the...

 (PPSC) formed the Christian Democratic Union

Nicaraguan Christian Democratic Union

The Christian Democratic Union is a Nicaraguan political party founded by the center-left Popular Social Christian Party and the center-right Democratic Party of National Confidence in 1992. As of 2006, the UDC is part of the Sandinista National Liberation Front alliance....

(UDC).