Progressive Union of the Centrist Center
- Progressive Union of the Centrist Center
The Progressive Union of the Centrist Center (Spanish: "Unión del Centro Centro Progresista", UCCP) was a small center-right Chilean Party.
The party was founded by supermarket tycoon Francisco Javier Errázuriz to support his candidacy in the 1989 presidential elections. The charismatic Errázuriz emphasized that he was the only true centrist candidate, although his political ideology was slightly center-right. Errázuriz won 15.05% of the vote, but achieved little politically except to take votes from the right-wing candidate, Hernán Büchi.
The UCCP then joined the right-wing alliance Union for Progress ("Unión por el Progreso", today the Alliance for Chile). Due to disagreements between the UCCP and the National Renewal, one of the members of the Union for Progress, the UCCP broke with the alliance on 1995 and presented their own candidate, Arturo Frei, for the 1999 presidential elections. Frei fared disastrously, gaining only 0.35% of the vote, the lowest percentage of any candidate since the end of the Pinochet régime.
On January 3, 2000, Senator Errázuriz retook control of the UCCP from Alejandro García and Agustín Benapres after they gave their support for Joaquín Lavín in the 2000 runoff election. Many accused Errázuriz of wanting to be in charge of the party when it had formally given its support to Lavín so that he would be rewarded with a post in the Lavín government.
Errázuriz, the only UCCP member of Parliament, soon saw himself embroiled in various court cases. His term ended on 2000 and he decided to end his career in politics due to the court cases against him, the investigation into some of his companies, and the fact that three of them were bankrupt. Without their leader, the UCCP ceased to exist.
External links
* [http://www.bcn.cl/pags/instituciones/partidos/uccp.htm "Declaration of Principles"] (Spanish)
* [http://www.bcn.cl/pags/biografias/detalle_par.php?id=73 Biography of Francisco Javier Errázuriz] (Spanish)
Wikimedia Foundation.
2010.
Look at other dictionaries:
The Guardian — For other uses, see The Guardian (disambiguation). The Guardian A Guardian front page from July 2011 Type Daily newspaper Format Berliner … Wikipedia
Factions in the Democratic Party (United States) — The Democratic Party of the United States is composed of various different factions, with some overlap and enough agreement between them to coexist with each other within the party.LiberalsProgressive DemocratsProgressives tend to advocate a… … Wikipedia
History of the United States Democratic Party — The History of the United States Democratic Party is an account of the oldest political party in the United States and arguably the oldest democratic party in the world. [citation | last=Witcover | first=Jules | year=2003 | chapter=1 | page=3.… … Wikipedia
National Progressive Center Union — The National Progressive Center Union (Greek: Εθνική Προοδευτική Ένωση Κέντρου EPEK) was a Greek political party. It was established in 1949 by General Nikolaos Plastiras and attracted a following of disappointed Liberals and left leaning… … Wikipedia
HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Media bias in the United States — Journalism News · Writing style Ethics · Objectivity Values · … Wikipedia
List of think tanks in the United States — This article is a list of think tanks in the United States.ListConservativeModern conservatism is associated with some of the foreign policy initiatives of think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Project for the New… … Wikipedia
History of the Italian Republic — After World War II and the overthrow of Mussolini s fascist regime, Italy s history was dominated by the Democrazia Cristiana (DC Christian Democrats) party for forty years, while the opposition was led by the Italian Communist Party (PCI); this… … Wikipedia
Arturo Frei — Bolívar (born November 18, 1939) is a Chilean political figure, a former senator and presidential candidate in the 2000 election. He was born in Santiago, son of Arturo Frei Montalva and of Marcela Bolívar Le Fort. His uncle was Eduardo Frei… … Wikipedia
United Progressive Alliance — UPA redirects here. For other uses, see UPA (disambiguation). Republic of India Part of the series Politics and Government of India … Wikipedia
