Democratic Republican Union

Democratic Republican Union
Unión Republicana Democrática
FounderJóvito Villalba
Founded18 December 1945
HeadquartersCaracas
IdeologyLiberalism[1]
Social liberalism
Civic nationalism
Progressivism
Reformism
Political positionCentre to centre-left[2][3][4]
ColoursYellow

The Democratic Republican Union (Spanish: Unión Republicana Democrática, URD) is a Venezuelan political party founded in 1945.

  1. ^ Allan R. Brewer-Carías (2010), Dismantling Democracy in Venezuela, Cambridge University Press, p. 41
  2. ^ Leslie Bethell, ed. (2008), The Cambridge History of Latin America, vol. VI, part 1, Cambridge University Press, p. 440
  3. ^ Ian Gorvin (1989), Elections since 1945: A worldwide reference compendium, Longman, p. 391
  4. ^ J. Denis Derbyshire; Ian Derbyshire (1989), Political Systems Of The World, Chambers, p. 122