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Democratic Republican Union Unión Republicana Democrática | |
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Founder | Jóvito Villalba |
Founded | 18 December 1945 |
Headquarters | Caracas |
Ideology |
Liberalism
[1] Social liberalism Civic nationalism Progressivism Reformism |
Political position | Centre to centre-left [2] [3] [4] |
Colours | Yellow |
The Democratic Republican Union ( Spanish: Unión Republicana Democrática, URD) is a Venezuelan political party founded in 1945.
When the party appeared on course to win the 1952 election for a constituent assembly, then-dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez suspended the election. [5] The party joined in the 1958 Puntofijo Pact, and its candidate in that year's presidential election, Wolfgang Larrazábal, was the runner-up. The party resigned from the Puntofijo Pact in 1962 in protest of the decision to exclude Cuba from the Organization of American States, which ended its time as a dominant political party. Its candidate Jóvito Villalba won 19% of the vote in the 1963 election, but only 3% in the 1973 election.
Elections where the URD backed the winning candidate shown in bold.
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Democratic Republican Union Unión Republicana Democrática | |
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Founder | Jóvito Villalba |
Founded | 18 December 1945 |
Headquarters | Caracas |
Ideology |
Liberalism
[1] Social liberalism Civic nationalism Progressivism Reformism |
Political position | Centre to centre-left [2] [3] [4] |
Colours | Yellow |
The Democratic Republican Union ( Spanish: Unión Republicana Democrática, URD) is a Venezuelan political party founded in 1945.
When the party appeared on course to win the 1952 election for a constituent assembly, then-dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez suspended the election. [5] The party joined in the 1958 Puntofijo Pact, and its candidate in that year's presidential election, Wolfgang Larrazábal, was the runner-up. The party resigned from the Puntofijo Pact in 1962 in protest of the decision to exclude Cuba from the Organization of American States, which ended its time as a dominant political party. Its candidate Jóvito Villalba won 19% of the vote in the 1963 election, but only 3% in the 1973 election.
Elections where the URD backed the winning candidate shown in bold.