Civic Union Unión Cívica | |
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| Leader | Leandro N. Alem |
| Founded | 1890 |
| Dissolved | 1891 |
| Preceded by | Civic Union of the Youth |
| Succeeded by | Radical Civic Union National Civic Union |
| Headquarters | Buenos Aires |
| Ideology | Universal suffrage |
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The Civic Union (Spanish: Unión Cívica) was a short-lived political party in Argentina, founded on April 13, 1890 out of the Civic Union of the Youth. That same year it led the Revolution of the Park that forced President Miguel Juárez Celman's resignation, but shortly after dissolved itself in two branches, the Radical Civic Union and the National Civic Union, each following one of the Civic Union's foremost leaders, Leandro Alem and Bartolomé Mitre, respectively.
Since 1880, the exercise of power was concentrated in an elite that controlled access to candidacies. For this reason, the Civic Union emerged, which proposed to regenerate political life by promoting citizen participation in public space and demanding respect for the constitution and political freedoms.[1]