Christian Democratic Union (Ecuador)
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Christian Democratic Union Unión Demócrata Cristiana | |
|---|---|
right-wing | |
| International affiliation | Centrist Democrat International |
| Regional affiliation | Christian Democrat Organization of America |
| Colors | Green |
The Christian Democratic Union (
centre-left party.[1]
Later in the 1990s, it shifted to the centre-right.
It reached its first great success in 1978 when party member
Jaime Roldós of the Concentration of People's Forces. Hurtado served as President of Ecuador from 1981 to 1984 due to Roldós's death in office. It was Ecuador's largest political party, having won 35% of the seats in the 1998 elections to the Congreso Nacional. In the 1998 presidential elections, party member Jamil Mahuad was elected president, and after a coup d'état and brief military rule, he was succeeded in 2000 by the vice-president, Gustavo Noboa
, who was also in the party.
At the
legislative elections
, 20 October 2002, the party won 4 out of 100 seats. In 2006, it dropped the name of Popular Democracy and took the current one. At the elections, held in October 2006, it won 2 seats in the Congress. It had no presidential candidate.
The UDC was a member of the Christian Democrat Organization of America, continental organization of the Centrist Democrat International.
In 2013, the UDC was dissolved after the National Congress of the party.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Morrisson, Christian, ed. (1994), The Political Feasibility of Adjustment in Ecuador and Venezuela, OECD Publications Centre, p. 44
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