Union, Progress and Democracy Unión, Progreso y Democracia | |
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Spokesperson | Cristiano Brown[1] |
Founded | 26 September 2007Donosti | in
Dissolved | 6 December 2020 |
Headquarters | C/ Juan Bravo, 3A 28006, Madrid |
Think tank | Progress and Democracy Foundation |
Membership (2017) | 1,154[2] |
Ideology | |
Political position | Centre[6][22] |
Colours | Magenta |
Website | |
www.upyd.es | |
Union, Progress and Democracy[23][24][25][26][27][28] (Spanish: Unión, Progreso y Democracia [unˈjon, pɾoˈɣɾeso j ðemoˈkɾaθja], UPyD [upejˈðe]) was a Spanish political party founded in September 2007 and dissolved in December 2020. It was a social-liberal party that rejected any form of nationalism,[17] especially the separatist Basque and Catalan movements.[29] The party was deeply pro-European and wanted the European Union to adopt a federal system without overlap between the European, national and regional governments.[30] It also wanted to replace the State of Autonomies with a much more centralist, albeit still politically decentralized, unitary system as well as substituting a more proportional election law for the current one.[note 1][33]
UPyD first stood for election in the 9 March 2008 general election. It received 303,246 votes, or 1.2% of the national total. It won one seat in the Congress of Deputies[34] for party co-founder Rosa Díez, becoming the newest party with national representation in Spain. Although its core was in the Basque Autonomous Community, with roots in anti-ETA civic associations, it addressed a national audience. Prominent members of the party included philosopher Fernando Savater, party founder and former PSOE MEP Rosa Díez, philosopher Carlos Martínez Gorriarán and writer Álvaro Pombo.
At its Second Party Congress in November 2013, UPyD reported 6,165 registered members (down from an all-time high of 6,634 in 2011).[35] In 2009, the party founded the think tank Fundación Progreso y Democracia (FPyD: Progress and Democracy Foundation), which has been presided over by UPyD spokesperson Rosa Díez.[36]
In the general elections held on 20 November 2011, the party won 1,143,225 votes (4.70 percent), five seats which it was able to form a parliamentary group with in the Congress of Deputies[37] (four in Madrid and one in Valencia) and became the fourth-largest political force in the country. It had the greatest increase of votes over the previous general election of any party.[38] In the 2015 general election, however, it suffered a decline in its vote power by losing all of its seats. In the 2016 general election, it dropped to just 0.2% of the national vote.
On 18 November 2020, a judge ordered the dissolution of the party and its erasure from the registry of political parties, as it did not have the financial solvency to pay off the debt contracted with a former worker. The party announced that it would appeal the sentence.[39] On 6 December 2020, it was announced that the party would no longer appeal the sentence, thus formally extinguishing UPyD.[40]
A fecha de hoy, el número de afiliados de UPYD es de 1154 y el de simpatizantes, de 5147
UA had disappeared and a centralist and centrist party had emerged: UPyD (Union Progress and Democracy)
and the liberal-reformist and centralist Union Progress and Democracy (UPyD)
The Union, Progress and Democracy Party, formed in 2007, is a social liberal party that rejects nationalism (including Basque and Catalan) and wants to adopt a system of European federalism, along with a proportional voting system
and Union, Progress and Democracy (a progressive party founded in 2007 and strongly characterized by its rejection of the peripheral nationalisms
UPyD je považována za stranu radikálního centrismu
Formed in 2007, the UPYD is a social liberal party that rejects nationalism in all forms and wants to adopt a system of symmetric federalism with political centralization as a territorial model
In September 2007, Unión Progreso y Democracia had been created in Madrid. The new party had many similarities to Ciudadanos in terms of party agenda and strategy. It defended Spanish patriotism and criticised the evolution of decentralisation in Spain and the role of Catalan and Basque nationalism in Spanish politics
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Se define como un partido nacional y que concibe España como una nación de ciudadanos libres e iguales de un Estado unitario y descentralizado integrado en Europa
Aunque no creo en las panaceas ni en las soluciones milagrosas a los problemas de la democracia —el federalismo tiene muchas ventajas, pero sin duda sus propios inconvenientes—, sí soy partidario ferviente del principio de llamar a las cosas por su nombre, y por eso apoyo la idea de que la Constitución española reformada que propugnamos pase a ser una Constitución Federal. Porque un Estado unitario descentralizado fuerte, con un núcleo de competencias centrales que no se delegan a las comunidades autónomas, donde todas éstas tengan las mismas competencias y capacidad legislativa, y donde en caso de conflicto la ley estatal (y las instituciones comunes) tenga la primacía sobre la autonómica, no es otra cosa que un Estado Federal
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