Democratic Republican Union

The Democratic Republican Union (Spanish: Unión Republicana Democrática, URD) is a Venezuelan political party founded in 1945.

For the French Third Republic group, see Democratic and Republican Union
Democratic Republican Union

Unión Republicana Democrática
FounderJóvito Villalba
Founded18 December 1945
HeadquartersCaracas
IdeologyLiberalism[1]
Social liberalism
Civic nationalism
Progressivism
Reformism
Political positionCentre to center-left[2][3][4][5]
ColoursYellow

When the party appeared on course to win the 1952 election for a constituent assembly, then-dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez suspended the election.[6] 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.

Presidential candidates supported

elections where URD backed the winning candidate shown in bold

References

  1. Allan R. Brewer-Carías (2010), Dismantling Democracy in Venezuela, Cambridge University Press, p. 41
  2. Leslie Bethell, ed. (2008), The Cambridge History of Latin America, vol. VI, part 1, Cambridge University Press, p. 440
  3. Ian Gorvin (1989), Elections since 1945: A worldwide reference compendium, Longman, p. 391
  4. Miguel Tinker Salas (2007), "U.S. Oil Companies in Venezuela: The Forging of an Enduring Alliance", Venezuela: Hugo Chávez and the Decline of an "Exceptional Democracy", Rowman & Littlefield, p. 44
  5. J. Denis Derbyshire; Ian Derbyshire (1989), Political Systems Of The World, Chambers, p. 122
  6. Historia viva, 2002-2003, Jorge Olavarría. 2003. (page 134).


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