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 zachary harden
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Two conflicting flag designs to be reported, both differing from the 
2001 design. There’s a basic similarity between 
both designs, the blue-bordered yellow disc. This might imply a change of 
symbols in the meantime between both sources.
António Martins, 08 September 2007
 image by Antonio Martins, 08 September 2007
image by Antonio Martins, 08 September 2007
Leaflet [t9l07] and the voting bulletin 
show a different flag, also white with a different logo 
and lettering: yellow disc rimmed in dark blue with a windrose star on it, 
red-bordered white, longer tips for the cardinal directions, borderless white, 
shorter for the collateral directions, and a white dove flying, outlined in 
black, on a white disc on its center. Letters "Partido Democrata Cristão" 
arched above and around the disc (from 8 to 4 o’clock) and "PDC" straight 
under it, all set in black serif capitals; red scroll bellow all with "Luta 
ba isin no klamar", in smaller similar letters.
Antonio Martins, 08 September 2007
 image by Antonio Martins, 08 September 2007
image by Antonio Martins, 08 September 2007
At the parliament 
website 
the flag is ~3:4 white with a large yellow disc rimmed in light blue and 
charged with a brown Latin cross (not reaching the edges) and lettering 
"Partido Democrata Cristao" (sic!) and 
"(PDC)" in two lines set in red sans serif capitals. 
I’m not fully sure that this is a flag design rather 
than just a logotype, although almost all other such designs, at the the 
parliament website, are flags.
Antonio Martins, 08 September 2007
 image by Antonio Martins, 22 September 2001
image by Antonio Martins, 22 September 2001
The logo (and thus the flag?) of P.D.C. shows on a white background a large
golden yellow disc and on it a brown cross couped. Arched above the disc, the
black capital Tetum lettering "Memperjuangkan nilai-nilai Kekristenam", 
and, below the disc on a straight line, "PDC" in very thick and 
elongated black capitals.
António Martins, 22 September 2001
P.D.C. got 7181 votes in the 2001.08.30 elections
(1,98%), receiving 2 of 88 seats in the parliament, where it is one of the small
parties.
António Martins, 22 September 2001
In the 2007.06.02 elections P.D.C. got 4300 
votes (1,03%), receiving no seats in the parliament.
António Martins, 09 September 2007
A new party, the Democratic Progressive League
is announced to have been created in June 2007 joining all six smaller parties 
which received no seats in the Parliament. No news for now about an emblem or 
flag.
António Martins, 10 September 2007