Radical Civic Union

Radical Civic Union
Unión Cívica Radical
AbbreviationUCR
PresidentMartin Lousteau
Vice PresidentOlga Inés Brizuela y Doria
Chamber LeaderRodrigo de Loredo
Senate LeaderEduardo Vischi
Founded26 June 1891; 133 years ago (1891-06-26)
Split fromCivic Union
HeadquartersAdolfo Alsina 1786
Buenos Aires - Argentina
Think tankAlem Foundation[1]
Student wingFranja Morada
Youth wingJuventud Radical (Suspended from International Union of Socialist Youth)[2]
Membership (2023)1,816,169 (2nd)[3]
IdeologyRadicalism
Liberalism
Social liberalism
Political positionCentre
National affiliationNone[4]
Regional affiliationCOPPPAL[5]
International affiliationSocialist International[6]
Colors  Red   White
AnthemMarcha Radical
Seats in the
Chamber of Deputies
33 / 257
Seats in the
Senate
13 / 72
Governors
5 / 24
Party flag
Website
www.ucr.org.ar Edit this at Wikidata

The Radical Civic Union (Spanish: Unión Cívica Radical, UCR) is a centrist and liberal political party in Argentina.[7] It has been ideologically heterogeneous, ranging from conservatism to social democracy,[8][9] but since 1995 it has been a member of the Socialist International.[10]

Founded in 1891 by radical liberals, the UCR is the second oldest political party active in Argentina, after the Liberal Party of Corrientes.[11] The party's main support has long come from the middle class.[12][13] For many years, the UCR was either in opposition to Peronist governments or illegal during military rule.[14] The party has stood for liberal democracy, secularism, free elections and civilian control of the military. Especially during the 1970s and 1980s, it was perceived as a strong advocate for human rights.[15][16][17][18]

The UCR had different fractures, conformations, incarnations and factions, through which the party ruled the country seven times with the presidencies of Hipólito Yrigoyen (1916-1922 and 1928-1930), Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear (1922-1928), Arturo Frondizi (1958-1962), Arturo Illia (1963-1966), Raúl Alfonsín (1983-1989) and Fernando de la Rúa (1999-2001).[19] After 2001, the party has been particularly fragmented. As the Justicialist Party led by Nestor and Cristina Kirchner moved to the left, the UCR aligned itself with anti-Peronist centre-right parties.

From 2015 to 2023, the UCR was a member of the centre-right Cambiemos / Juntos por el Cambio coalition, along with Republican Proposal and Civic Coalition ARI, and supported Mauricio Macri in the 2015 and 2019 presidential elections.[20][21] For the 2023 elections, the party supported the candidacy of Patricia Bullrich.[22] The party is not currently in any coalition since Juntos por el Cambio's dissolution in 2023.[23][24]

  1. ^ "Relanzamos la Fundación Alem". www.ucr.org.ar. 16 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Parece que Cambiemos no es progresista". Página/12. March 7, 2016.
  3. ^ "Cámara Nacional Electoral".
  4. ^ "Congreso: se partió Juntos por el Cambio y se unifican los bloques de Schiaretti y Pichetto". Perfil (in Spanish). 2023-12-27. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
  5. ^ "Países y Partidos Miembros de la COPPPAL – Copppal".
  6. ^ "Full list of member parties and organisations".
  7. ^ Storani, Federico (1998), "Legitimacy and Transition in Latin America: Social Forces and the New Agenda of Consensus", Argentina: The challenges of modernization, Scholarly Resources, p. 51
  8. ^ Ares, Carlos (January 15, 1983). "Raúl Alfonsín: "quiero crear un amplio movimiento popular para acabar con el autoritarismo"". El País.
  9. ^ "El centrismo radical". 22 March 2015.
  10. ^ "Debuta De la Rúa en el consejo de la Internacional Socialista". La Nación. January 12, 1999.
  11. ^ "Ezequiel Gallo: "Hubo otra década del 70 en la que pudo cambiar la historia argentina"".
  12. ^ "Acerca de la relacion entre el Radicalismo argentino y la "clase media" (una vez mas)". www.researchgate.net.
  13. ^ http://anuarioiehs.unicen.edu.ar/Files/2020%201/11%20Anuario%20IEHS%2035(1)%202020.%20Gimenez.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  14. ^ "Radical Civic Union." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 14 Nov. 2006 <http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9389399>.
  15. ^ Sabatini, Christopher (2005), "Advocacy, Ideology and Partisanship: Human Rights in the Electoral Arena", (Un)civil Societies: Human Rights and Democratic Transitions in Eastern Europe and Latin America, Lexington Books, p. 272
  16. ^ Ameringer, Charles D. (1992), "Argentina", Political Parties of the Americas, 1980s to 1990s: Canada, Latin America and the West Indies, Greenwood Press, p. 25
  17. ^ "Por Twitter, la UCR subrayó su "compromiso en la defensa de los derechos humanos"".
  18. ^ "El radicalismo y la Iglesia".
  19. ^ "UCR | Lo que somos". ucr.org.ar. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
  20. ^ Peregil, Francisco (March 16, 2015). "El gran partido opositor argentino se une a la derecha en las presidenciales". El País.
  21. ^ "Macri celebró la permanencia de la UCR en Cambiemos: "Es un ejemplo de la importancia que tienen los debates"". Infobae. May 28, 2019.
  22. ^ "Bullrich recibió el apoyo de la UCR, tras las dudas expresadas por otros dirigentes radicales".
  23. ^ "Elisa Carrió dio por fracturado a Juntos por el Cambio: "La Coalición Cívica retoma su plena autonomía"". infobae (in European Spanish). 2023-11-20. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
  24. ^ "Congreso: se partió Juntos por el Cambio y se unifican los bloques de Schiaretti y Pichetto". Perfil (in Spanish). 2023-12-27. Retrieved 2024-10-20.