Christian Democratic Party of Uruguay

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Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:Infobox political party Template:Christian democracy sidebar The Christian Democratic Party of Uruguay (Template:Langx) is an Uruguayan political party. The party adheres to Christian democracy and social democracy, and sits on the centre-left of the left-right political spectrum.

History

The party was established in 1911 as the Civic Union,<ref name=PDC>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> having developed out of the Catholic Party that contested the 1910 elections.<ref>Enciclopedia Electoral del Uruguay 1900–2010 Instituto Factum</ref> In February 1962 it was renamed the Christian Democratic Party.<ref name=PDC/> A faction broke away in 1966, initially running under the name Christian Civic Movement, before becoming the Christian Radical Union, and later reclaiming the Civic Union name.

According to a 1956 study, the Civic Union "rejected the concept of statism involved in what it claimed was "Colorado Socialism," although it was willing to accept subsidiary intervention by the State to achieve ends of social justice."<ref>Uruguay: Portrait of a Democracy By Russell Humke Fitzgibbon, 1956 P.238</ref> Another study noted how the Civic Union "always has been concerned with the welfare of rural Uruguay, and has made concrete legislative contributions to the comparatively few sound policies which have been adopted in that field."<ref>Taylor, Philip B. Jr. (1960). Tulane Studies in Political Science Volume VII, Government and Politics of Uruguay. Tulane University, P.52</ref>

Affiliation

It is part of the governing coalition Broad Front (Frente Amplio). It is a part of the Progressive Alliance, which in turn forms part of the Liber Seregni Front uniting the more moderate centre-left and centrist sectors of the Broad Front.

Programme

Its platform calls for "a communitarian society" and a "social state", as well as "absolute respect for human life" (including opposition to abortion). It further calls for "alternative forms of production, distribution, consumption and accumulation" that are "superior to capitalist and state-owned enterprises", including:

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