Unión Progreso y Democracia

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Unión Progreso y Democracia
UPYD
Logo Activa UPYD.png
Party leader Cristiano Brown
founding September 26, 2007
Place of foundation Casa de Campo , Madrid
Headquarters Calle Orense, 25, 6ºB
28020, Madrid
Alignment Progressivism
Left Liberalism
Secularism
Centralism
Radicalism
Reformism
Constitutionalism
European Federalism
Spanish Patriotism
Political Center
Colours) magenta
Parliament seats
0/350
Number of members 4,028
MEPs
1/59
EP Group Renew Europe
Website www.upyd.es

The Unión Progreso y Democracia ( UPYD , formerly also abbreviated as UPyD or UPD ) (German Union Progress and Democracy) is a Spanish political party founded in 2007 . It sees itself as a centrist-liberal alternative between the conservative Partido Popular and the social democratic PSOE . An essential part of their program is the rejection of regional nationalisms, such as those represented by the Basque parties PNV and EA or the Catalan CiU and ERC . The party's chairman from 2007 to 2015 was Rosa Díez , who had previously been President of the Basque Regional Association of the PSOE and a member of the European Parliament , but then resigned from the PSOE in protest against the negotiations between the Zapatero government and the Basque terrorist organization ETA .

UPYD sponsors include various well-known personalities such as the professor and ex-president of the forum of Ermua Mikel Buesa , the philosophers Carlos Martínez Gorriarán and Fernando Savater, and the writer Mario Vargas Llosa .

The origin of the three concepts on which the name of the party is based was explained by Mikel Buesa when the party was presented in 2007 and Rosa Díez in an interview for a magazine in 2007: Union because of its “unconditional defense of the unity of Spain as necessary Requirement for the principle of equality for all Spaniards ”. Progress because they define themselves as “a progressive party that respects individual freedom”. And democracy because of its “commitment to the radical regeneration of democracy”.

In mid-2009 there were internal party conflicts in which a group led by Mikel Buesa criticized Rosa Díez's authoritarian leadership style and the lack of internal party democracy. The clashes eventually led to the resignation of numerous critics, including several founding members as well as board members at national and regional level. In the years that followed, the youngest of the parties represented in parliament was repeatedly affected by prominent resignations and resignations. After a high of 6634 in 2011, the UPYD had only 6068 members in 2012, and then 6165 in September 2013. In July 2015, the party had 4,028 members.

After the UPYD has been able to steadily increase in the polls since the parliamentary elections in 2011 and was temporarily identified as the third strongest party, the polls for the UPYD have been consistently lower. The UPYD lost supporters in particular to the liberal Ciudadanos party . At times a merger between UPYD and Ciudadanos was under discussion. After party leader Díez refused, several UPYD party officials converted to the Ciudadanos. As a result, the UPYD was below one percent in the polls, while the Ciudadanos were around 15 percent. The UPYD suffered heavy losses in the regional and local elections on May 24, 2015, with the result that party chairwoman Rosa Díez announced that she would no longer be available for the party chairmanship at the next party congress and would withdraw from politics after the end of the legislative period.

On July 11, 2015 Andrés Herzog was elected as the new chairman of the UPYD. He prevailed against Congresswoman Irene Lozano . Lozano himself left the UPYD a few months later and announced that he would run for the PSOE in the parliamentary elections on December 20 .

As a result of the internal squabbles within the party and the strengthening of the Ciudadanos, the UPYD fell from 4.7% to 0.6% in the 2015 parliamentary election and lost all seats in Congress. At the beginning of 2016, party leader Herzog resigned due to the election result, his successor was the only remaining MP of the UPYD at the regional level Gorka Maneiro , who last represented the party in the Basque regional parliament. Herzog and Díez left the UPYD in February 2016. Maneiro was replaced as party leader by Cristiano Brown in 2017.

For the 2019 European elections , the UPYD, which with Maite Pagazaurtundua only had one of its once four representatives in the EU Parliament, ran together with the Ciudadanos on their list. This electoral alliance achieved 12.2% of the vote, so that Pagazaurtundua, who ran for second place on the list, moved back into the European Parliament. For the parliamentary election in November 2019, UPYD members ran again on the list of Ciudadanos, but without winning a seat.

elections

In the Spanish parliamentary elections in 2008 , the party won a congressional mandate in the Madrid constituency for Rosa Díez with 1.2% of the nationwide vote. The UPYD was able to increase its share in the following parliamentary elections in 2011 to 4.7%, which means an increase from one to five mandates since then. In 2015 she lost all seats and fell to 0.6% of the vote. In 2016, it only reached 0.2% and did not run again in the elections in early 2019 .

In the Basque regional elections in 2009, the UPYD received 2.1% of the vote and also a seat, which it was able to defend in 2012 with 1.94%. In 2016 the UPYD no longer competed.

In the 2014 European elections, the party increased its share compared to 2009 from 2.87 to 6.50% and had four members of the European Parliament who joined the group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). The party did not run for the 2019 European elections and instead supported the candidacy of Ciudadanos , whose list also included UPyD members. With Maite Pagazaurtundua , the party has a member of the Renew Europe group.

choice date be right % Mandates
Flag of Spain.svg Spanish general election 2008 March 9, 2008 306.079 1.19% 1
Flag of the Basque Country.svg Basque regional elections March 1, 2009 22,233 2.15% 1
Flag of Europe.svg European elections in Spain June 7, 2009 451.866 2.85% 1
Flag of the Community of Madrid.svg Regional elections Madrid May 22, 2011 189,055 6.32% 8th
Flag of Spain.svg Spanish parliamentary elections 2011 November 20, 2011 1,143,225 4.70% 5
Flag of Asturias.svgRegional elections Asturias March 25, 2012 18,813 3.75% 1
Flag of the Basque Country.svg Basque regional elections October 21, 2012 21,539 1.94% 1
Flag of Europe.svg European elections in Spain May 25, 2014 1,022,232 6.51% 4th
Flag of Spain.svg Spanish general election 2015 20th December 2015 155.153 0.62% 0

Web links

Commons : Unión Progreso y Democracia  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lucía Medina: From recession to long-lasting political crisis? Continuities and changes in Spanish politics in times of crisis and austerity . (pdf) In: Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials (ICPS) (Ed.): Working Paper . 334, 2015, ISSN  1133-8962 , p. 4. Retrieved on June 24, 2016. "and Union, Progress and Democracy (a progressive party founded in 2007 and strongly characterized by its rejection of the peripheral nationalisms)"
  2. ^ Edita Miftari: Human Rights do not Recognize Political Ideology! Political Parties and the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People . Ed .: Saša Gavrić, Emina Bošnjak (= Emina Bošnjak [Ed.]: Human Rights Series . No. 34 ). Sarajevski otvoreni centar, 2015, ISBN 978-9958-536-25-0 , p. 32 (English, soc.ba [PDF; accessed June 24, 2016]): “The center oriented and progressive UPyD”
  3. ↑ Tom Lansford: Political Handbook of the World 2014 . CQ Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4833-3327-4 , pp. 1337 (English, google.es [accessed June 24, 2016]): "Founded in 2007, the UPyD is a liberal, progressive party that advocates expanded federalism, including restoring central control over education and health care"
  4. ^ Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca, Elias Dinas: Voters and Parties in the Spanish Political Space (=  South European Society and Politics ). Routledge, 2016, ISBN 978-1-134-93326-6 , pp. 144 (English, google.es [accessed June 24, 2016]): “Unión Progreso y Democracia (UPyD - a progressive party in favor of the unity of Spain)”
  5. ^ A b c The Democratic Society: Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) . Accessed June 24, 2016: “The party is rigidly secularist, and declares itself to be neither left nor right. It is broadly, social liberal and progressive "
  6. ↑ a b c Araceli Mateos, Alberto Penadés: España: crisis y recortes . (PDF) In: Revista de ciencia política (Santiago) . 33, 2013, ISSN  0718-090X , p. 175. Retrieved June 25, 2016. “Unión Progreso y Democracia (5 escaños) es un partido de centro, con una combinación de ideología social liberal y de centralismo territorial, enemigo del nacionalismo periférico en España "
  7. ↑ a b c European Social Survey: ESS6 - 2012 Appendix A3, edition 2.0 ( English ) Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved on May 21, 2015: “UPyD. Ideology: centralism, social liberalism. Political Position: Center "
  8. ↑ tungsten Nordsieck: SPAIN . Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on April 9, 2016. Retrieved June 25, 2016: "Unión, Progreso y Democracia (UPD): Social liberalism"
  9. ↑ a b c Enrique Ávila López: Modern Spain (=  Understanding Modern Nations ). ABC-CLIO, 2015, ISBN 978-1-61069-601-2 , p. 85 (English, google.es [accessed June 25, 2016]): “Party: UPyD: Unión Progreso y Democracia (Union, Progress & Democracy). President / Leader: Andrés Herzog. Ideology: Centralism, secularism, European federalism ”
  10. ^ The Democratic Society: Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) . Retrieved June 24, 2016: "The party is the most pro-European in Spain, and supports a federal Europe, which it sees as an important guarantor of individual rights"
  11. ↑ François Musseau: Un parti centriste irrite les grands partis ( French ) Le Temps . June 10, 2009. Archived from the original on June 14, 2009. Retrieved June 25, 2016: "La droite ne supporte pas cette formation car elle se dit tout aussi patriote qu'elle"
  12. ^ UPYD Twitter account , accessed on December 2, 2012
  13. ↑ Against regionalitis in Spain. In: Deutschlandfunk of October 2, 2007, accessed on April 24, 2014
  14. ↑ Unión, Progreso y Democracia: La economía hace aguas por todos los lados, se ha aumentado la presión fiscal en un 2% del PIB ( Spanish ) upyd.es. December 18, 2007. Retrieved on September 11, 2017: "Mikel Buesa explicó el significado de la denominación del partido," Unión porque somos un partido contra la disgregación política de la última legislatura y abogamos por la unión de España sin condiciones, Progreso porque somos un partido progresista de raíz liberal y socialdemócrata y, por otra parte, respetamos la libertad individual y de elección y Democracia porque es el sistema que alberga todas las identidades, podemos ser lo que queramos y lo podemos expresar libremente ”“  ( Page no more retrievable , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / wayback.padicat.cat
  15. ↑ Pedro Antonio Navarro: Rosa Díez: "El voto del desencanto nos vendrá desde la izquierda" . In: El siglo de Europa . 754, September 17, 2007, ISSN  2254-9234 . Retrieved June 24, 2016. “ Reivindicamos la unión; la unión es más que la unidad, en el sentido de compañeros, pero en el sentido etimológico del término, de acompañar, de trabajar juntos, de compartir. La unión, frente a un momento en que en España, lo que más se lleva –y parece que es lo más progre– es la diversidad. Creo que hay diversas posiciones, diversas historias, diversas culturas, pero tiene que haber una unión en la ley, tenemos que ser todos iguales. Queríamos expresar que la igualdad sólo es posible con la unión, con la unión en lo sustancial. Progreso, no hace falta que lo explique. Es nuestra apuesta; aunque sabemos que el término progreso no es una palabra de la que se deba apropiar nadie, pero nosotros venimos de la izquierda y no renunciamos a ello. Y, si bien es cierto que sabemos que muchas veces, en nombre de la izquierda, se hacen políticas que fomentan la desigualdad, como, por ejemplo, el Estatuto de Autonomía de Cataluña, que por mucho que se haga en nombre de la izquierda, no son políticas de progreso, nosotros reivindicamos las verdaderas políticas de progreso, las plantee quien las plantee, y rechazamos las políticas que tienen efectos reaccionarios, se planteen por quien se planteen. Y Democracia, porque es nuestra apuesta la regeneración democrática "
  16. ↑ Unai Mezcua: UPyD: "El magenta es necesario para crear otros colores, como lo es UPyD para la regeneración de la democracia" ( Spanish ) ABC . May 18, 2015. Retrieved May 20, 2015: "En las directrices que Díez envió a la agencia figuraba una fundamental, según explica Labarthe:" que en el logotipo estuvieran representados los conceptos e ideas que defendemos como Unión, Progreso y Democracia " . En 2007, cuando Díez presentó UPyD arropada por Mikel Buesa, Carlos Martínez Gorriarán y Fernando Savater, desde el partido se justificó la elección del nombre porque defendería incondicionalmente la unidad de España, respetaría las libertades «individuales y apostaría por una democracia“
  17. ↑ El País , July 14, 2009: Los críticos de UPyD abandonan el partido por "falta de democracia interna" (Spanish)
  18. ↑ Pedro Torres: Incesante fuga de militantes: Las bajas de afiliados en UPyD no cesan desde su creación en 2007. In: Teinteresa.es of February 4, 2014 (Spanish)
  19. ↑ UPyD alcanzó su cuota máxima de afiliación en 2011 con más de 6,600 miembros. In: Europa Press of November 1, 2013, accessed March 31, 2014 (Spanish)
  20. ↑ La afiliación en UPyD , El País
  21. ↑ MyWorld survey , February 2015 (accessed: May 25, 2015)
  22. ↑ UPyD y Ciudadanos rompen las negociaciones sobre una posible alianza electoral , rtve.es of November 20, 2014 (accessed: May 25, 2015)
  23. ↑ J&A survey , May 2015 (accessed: May 25, 2015)
  24. ↑ Rosa Díez no presentará candidatura para liderar UPyD , El Mundo from May 25, 2015 (accessed: May 25, 2015)
  25. ↑ Herzog, nuevo líder de UPyD tras derrotar a Lozano , El Corro of July 11, 2015, accessed: July 11, 2015
  26. ↑ UPyD se integra en Ciudadanos para el 10-N , El Periódico of October 7, 2019, accessed: October 11, 2019
  27. ↑ El líder de UPyD será el 'número 11' de las listas europeas de Ciudadanos y pedirá el voto para Rivera en las generales. In: El Mundo. April 4, 2019, Retrieved November 18, 2019 (Spanish).