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Union, Progress and Democracy

Union, Progress and Democracy
Unión, Progreso y Democracia
SpokespersonCristiano Brown[1]
Founded26 September 2007 (2007-09-26) in Donosti
Dissolved6 December 2020
HeadquartersC/ Juan Bravo, 3A
28006, Madrid
Think tankProgress and Democracy Foundation
Membership (2017)1,154[2]
Ideology
Political positionCentre[6][28]
European Parliament groupNon-Inscrits (2009–2014)
ALDE Group (2014–2019)
Colours  Magenta
Website
www.upyd.es

Union, Progress and Democracy[29][30][31][32][33][34] (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,[23] especially the separatist Basque and Catalan movements.[35] 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.[36] 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][39]

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[40] 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.

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[41] (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.[42] 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.[43] On 6 December 2020, it was announced that the party would no longer appeal the sentence, thus formally extinguishing UPyD.[44]

  1. ^ (in Spanish) Cristiano Brown es elegido nuevo líder de UPyD, El Español
  2. ^ Unión, Progreso y Democracia. "9 años, 0 corruptos". upyd.es. Retrieved 17 September 2017. A fecha de hoy, el número de afiliados de UPYD es de 1154 y el de simpatizantes, de 5147
  3. ^ a b Mateos, Araceli; Penadés, Alberto (2013). "España: crisis y recortes" (PDF). Revista de ciencia política (Santiago) (in Spanish). 33 (1): 175. doi:10.4067/S0718-090X2013000100008. ISSN 0718-090X. Retrieved 12 January 2016. Unión Progreso y Democracia (5 escaños) es un partido de centro, con una combinación de ideología social liberal y de centralismo territorial, enemigo del nacionalismo periférico en España
  4. ^ a b UPyD. Ideology: centralism, social liberalism. Political Position: Centre Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine, European Social Survey
  5. ^ a b c Ávila López 2015, p. 85: "Party: UPyD: Unión Progreso y Democracia (Union, Progress & Democracy). President / Leader: Andrés Herzog. Ideology: Centralism, secularism, European federalism"
  6. ^ a b Leonisio, Rafael; Strijbis, Oliver (2014). "Beyond Self-placement: Why Nationalism is a Better Predictor of Electoral Behaviour in the Basque Country" (PDF). Spanish Journal of Sociological Research (REIS) (in Spanish and English) (146): 56. ISSN 0210-5233. UA had disappeared and a centralist and centrist party had emerged: UPyD (Union Progress and Democracy)
  7. ^ a b Fernández-Albertos, José (19 May 2014). "EU election: idea of Europe remains powerful in Spain". The Conversation. Retrieved 20 February 2015. and the liberal-reformist and centralist Union Progress and Democracy (UPyD)
  8. ^ Navarro, Pedro Antonio (2014). "El Congreso da su plácet al relevo" (PDF). El siglo de Europa (in Spanish). No. 1068. p. 18. ISSN 2254-9234. Archived from the original (pdf) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2024. Por su parte, UPyD, por boca de su jefa de filas, Rosa Díez, sorprendía en su intervención, no por el sentido de su pronunciamiento, que ya había sido anunciado con anterioridad, sino por la dureza de su exposición cuando aludía a la forma de Estado republicana, recurriendo a comparaciones como las de la República Popular de Corea o la República Islámica de Irán para denostar esta modalidad de Estado. Su confesión monárquica iba más allá, cuando dedicaba encendidos elogios a Juan Carlos I, de quien aseguró que "supo aprender de la sociedad española, aprender de fracasos y se puso del lado de los que queríamos construir una España plural y democrática"
  9. ^ Rivero, Borja (26 May 2015). "Elecciones regionales en España: ¿Quién teme al lobo feroz?". Cafébabel (in Spanish). ISSN 2110-5669. Archived from the original on 20 July 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2024. UPyD o Unión Progreso y Democracia, partido de centro político, socio-liberal, progresista, centralista y monárquico
  10. ^ "Political Parties in Andalucia". andalucia.com. 30 April 2014. Retrieved 8 September 2017. 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
  11. ^ Seoane Pérez 2010, p. 266: "The anti-nationalist, progressive UPyD failed to become the third political force, as some polls had predicted, but still won its first seat in the EP with 2.9 per cent of the vote"
  12. ^ Medina, Lucía (2015). "From recession to long-lasting political crisis? Continuities and changes in Spanish politics in times of crisis and austerity" (pdf). Working Paper. Vol. 334. Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials (ICPS). p. 4. ISSN 1133-8962. Retrieved 3 February 2016. and Union, Progress and Democracy (a progressive party founded in 2007 and strongly characterized by its rejection of the peripheral nationalisms
  13. ^ Miftari 2015, p. 32: "The center oriented and progressive UPyD"
  14. ^ Lansford 2014, p. 1337: "Founded in 2007, the UPyD is a liberal, progressive party that advocates expanded federalism, including restoring central control over education and health care"
  15. ^ Sánchez-Cuenca & Dinas 2016, p. 144: "Unión Progreso y Democracia (UPyD– a progressive party in favour of the unity of Spain)"
  16. ^ "How much is enough?". The Economist. 6 November 2008. Retrieved 9 June 2011. Mr Savater and Rosa Díez, a former Basque Socialist leader, have set up a new party of the radical centre called Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD), in an effort to combine social liberalism with a defence of the idea of Spain
  17. ^ Dvořáková, Monika (2012). "Politický a stranický systém Andalusie a volby v letech 2008 - 2012" (PDF) (in Czech). Masarykova univerzita. p. 19. Retrieved 3 February 2016. UPyD je považována za stranu radikálního centrismu
  18. ^ Azagra Ros & Romero González 2012, p. 120: "más el radical-centrismo de UPyD"
  19. ^ Vaquer, Jordi (2015). "Party Systems in Disarray, and the Emergence and Consolidation of New Actors in Southern Europe" (pdf). Instituto Europeo del Mediterráneo. Retrieved 4 November 2024. and the centre reformist UPyD (6.5%)
  20. ^ Vidal & Jiménez Losantos 2012: "cualquier acuerdo con UPyD, la única fuerza reformista española"
  21. ^ Dorange 2013, p. 100: "Partido españolista, republicano, nacional y laico, defiende la igualdad ciudadana en contra de los hechos diferenciales del nacionalismo considerados discriminatorios"
  22. ^ Terry, Chris (20 May 2014). "Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD)". The Democratic Society. Archived from the original on 1 July 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2024. The party is rigidly secularist, and declares itself to be neither left nor right
  23. ^ a b "Political Parties in Andalucia - UPyD". andalucia.com. 18 March 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015. 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
  24. ^ Painter 2013, p. 208: "The leftist ‘United Left’ and the moderate social liberal party Union, Progress and Democracy, saw their support increase by 3 per cent and 3.5 per cent, respectively"
  25. ^ Rodríguez Teruel, Juan; Barrio, Astrid (2016). "Going National: Ciudadanos from Catalonia to Spain" (pdf). South European Society and Politics. 21 (4). Routledge: 587–607. doi:10.1080/13608746.2015.1119646. ISSN 1360-8746. S2CID 155402347. 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
  26. ^ (in French) Un parti centriste irrite les grands partis, Le Temps
  27. ^ Armada, Alfonso (4 July 2008). "Otra España. Atisbos de un nuevo patriotismo". ABC (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 3 May 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  28. ^ Miftari (2015, p. 32): "The center oriented and progressive UPyD"
  29. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2014, p. 488: "and Union, Progress and Democracy (UPD, 7.7%) on the centre-right"
  30. ^ Ugarriza & Caluwaerts 2014, p. 68.
  31. ^ Bel i Queralt 2012, p. XVII.
  32. ^ Field & Botti 2013, p. 10.
  33. ^ Ross, Richardson & Sangrador-Vegas 2013, p. 77.
  34. ^ Ştefuriuc 2013, p. XII.
  35. ^ Henderson, Karen; Sitter, Nick (2008), "Political Developments in the EU Member States", The JCMS Annual Review of the European Union in 2007, Wiley, p. 196
  36. ^ "12 propuestas de UPyD | Europa federal". cadavotovale.es. Archived from the original on 10 November 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  37. ^ Redacción de Navarra Confidencial (8 February 2008). "Los 23" (in Spanish). Europa Press. Retrieved 22 September 2021. 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
  38. ^ Martínez Gorriarán, Carlos (19 October 2009). "Las ventajas del federalismo". upyd.es (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 24 November 2011. Retrieved 22 September 2021. 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
  39. ^ "browser – TPL_WARP_OUTDATEDBROWSER_PAGE_TITLE". sevillaactualidad.com. 25 October 2013. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
  40. ^ 2008 Cortes Generales Election Results Archived 10 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Ministerio del Interior. 10 March 2008. Last Retrieved 10 April 2008. (Spanish)
  41. ^ Gobierno de España (20 November 2011). "Resultados de UPyD en las Elecciones Generales de 2011". Retrieved 21 November 2011.
  42. ^ "El llamativo ascenso de UPyD, región a región". La Voz Libre. 21 November 2011. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
  43. ^ Una jueza declara la extinción de UPyD y da orden para que desaparezca del registro de partidos, La Vanguardia, 18 November 2020, accessed 10 May 2021
  44. ^ @Cristiano_Brown (6 December 2020). "Hoy, Día de la Constitución,..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.


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