Unión de Centro Democrático
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The Unión de Centro Democrático (short: UCD; German: Union of the Democratic Center) was a political party in Spain that was founded on May 3, 1977 as a tactical electoral alliance of the twelve most important parties in the center and dissolved in 1982.
The following parties belonged to the Union:
- Partido Demócrata Cristiano (PDC)
- Partido Popular (PPCD)
- Partido Socialdemócrata Independiente (PSI)
- Partido Social Liberal Andaluz (PSLA)
- Partido Social Demócrata
- Partido Progresista Liberal (PPL)
- Federación de Partidos Demócratas y Liberales
- Partido Liberal
- Federación Social Demócrata (FSD)
- Partido Gallego Independiente (PGI)
- Unión Canaria (UC)
- Unión Social Demócrata Española (USDE)
- Unión Demócrata de Murcia (UDM)
- Acción Regional Extremeña (AREX)
- Partido Demócrata Popular (PDP)
- Partido Social Demócrata Foral
The UCD was a bourgeois center-right party with a conservative-liberal orientation. It is considered the most important party of the Transición , as it united those elites of the regime and the democratic opposition who wanted a peaceful transition to democracy. However, it was never able to establish itself as a mass party. From 1976 to 1981 she provided Adolfo Suárez, the first democratic prime minister. Then Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo was in office before the electoral debacle of 1982 caused the split UCD with only 12 parliamentary seats to dissolve itself in 1983.
literature
- Birgit Spengler: System change in Greece and Spain: A comparison. Peter Lang Verlagsgruppe, Frankfurt 1996, ISBN 978-3-631-48889-8 (dissertation at the University of Saarbrücken, 1995).