The Social ChristianReformist Party is a Christian democraticright-wingpolitical party in the Dominican Republic, formed by the union of the Partido Reformista and the Partido Revolucionario Social Cristiano. Some of the PRSC's founders and leaders were originally business leaders and Roman Catholics who opposed the communist, socialist, democratic socialist and social democratic tendencies of Juan Bosch, the PRD and the PLD. Founders of the Partido Revolucionario Social Cristiano were anti-Trujillistas, among others: Alfonso Moreno Martinez, Mario Read Vittini, Yuyo D'Alessandro, Caonabo Javier Castillo, all of them returning to the Dominican Republic from political exile. On July 24, 1984, the party merge with the Partido Reformista and became the Partido Refomista Social Cristiano. In the legislative elections on 16 May 2002, the party won 24.3% of the popular vote, 36 out of 150 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 2 out of 31 seats in the Senate. For the presidential election of May 2004, the PRSC chose the civil engineer, Eduardo Estrella as its presidential candidate. He finished in a distant third place with only 8.7% of the votes. The PRSC declined rapidly following Balaguer's death in 2002. He was the presidential candidate of the PRSC and its predecessor party in every election from 1966 to 2000, except 1996, when Jacinto Peynado was the candidate, and Balaguer was President from 1966 to 1978 and from 1986 to 1996. The PRSC often had control of Congress as well. After the mid-2000s the party has been relegated to being a junior partner of the PRD or PLD. In the general elections of 16 May 2006, the party formed an alliance with the Modern Revolutionary Party, the Grand National Alliance and others, that won only 82 out of 183 deputies and 10 out of 32 senators. The Social Christian Reformist Party itself won 23 seats in the chamber of deputies and 4 seats in the senate, taking a distant third place compared to the Dominican Revolutionary Party and the Dominican Liberation Party, which won the election. For the Presidential Election of May 2008, the PRSC elected the Dominican Municipal League President Amable Aristy Castro as their Candidate: He came in a distant third place with less than 5% of the votes. For the legislative elections of May 2010, the party had a partial alliance with the Dominican Liberation Party in almost all provinces and won 4 senators and 8 deputies. For the 2012 elections, the PRSC remained in alliance with the PLD, and for the first time did not run its own presidential candidate. The new stage of the Social Christian Reformist Party has been based on the internal Party Discipline, the democratic induction to adjust its growth based on structural work and expansion of its direct enrollment. They managed to reorganize their management bodies, inserting a large number of young people and women into the management offices that are part of the transcendental decisions of that political party. They have had strong internal struggles, but they have proven to be an organization that achieves consensus, integration and the unity of the members who follow internal party discipline. It was in alliance with the People's Force party in the 2020 presidential elections.
