Union of the Democratic Centre (Argentina)

Union of the Democratic Centre

Unión del Centro Democrático
Union of the Democratic Centre Unión del Centro Democrático
Abbreviation	UCD, UCeDé
President	Andrés Passamonti
Secretary-General	Luis Cendra
Founder	Álvaro Alsogaray
Founded	August 1982
Headquarters	Buenos Aires
Youth wing	Juventud UCeDé
Membership (2017)	18,390
Ideology	Conservatism; Economic liberalism
Political position	Centre-right to right-wing
Colours	Blue, white
Chamber of Deputies	0 / 257
Senate	0 / 72
Buenos Aires Legislature	0 / 60
Website
	ucede.ar
	Politics of Argentina; Political parties; Elections;

The Union of the Democratic Centre (Spanish: Unión del Centro Democrático, UCD^[4] or UCeDé) is a centre-right^[5] to right-wing^[6]^[7] conservative and economically liberal political party in Argentina. It was founded in 1982 by Álvaro Alsogaray who unsuccessfully run in the 1983 and 1989 presidential elections, and represented the conservative elite, technocrats,^[4] and classical liberals.^[7]

As of October 2020 the party doesn't count with legal recognition nationwide.^[8]

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^ "Estadística de Afiliados" (PDF). electoral.gob.ar (in Spanish). 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
^ ^a ^b "A los 91 años murió Alvaro Alsogaray - LA NACION". La Nación.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Pion-Berlin, David (1997), Through Corridors of Power: Institutions and Civil-military Relations in Argentina, Pennsylvania State University Press, p. 66
^ ^a ^b Eaton, Kent (2002), Politicians and Economic Reform in New Democracies, Pennsylvania State University Press, p. 134
^ ^a ^b Carlos H. Acuña (1 January 1995). La nueva matriz política argentina. Nueva Visión. p. 383.
^ ^a ^b ^c Ratliff, William; Fontaine, Roger (1990), Changing Course: The Capitalist Revolution in Argentina, Hoover Press, p. 23
^ "Partidos vigentes". Cámara Nacional Electoral (in Spanish). 31 October 2020. Retrieved 21 November 2020.