Union of the Democratic Centre (Argentina)

The Union of the Democratic Centre, known in Spanish as Union del Centro Democratico and by the initials UCD or UCeDe, is a centre-right to right-wing conservative and economically liberal political party in Argentina. It was founded in 1982 by Alvaro Alsogaray, who ran unsuccessfully for president in 1983 and 1989 and whose party represented the conservative elite, technocrats and classical liberals. By 1989 it had become the third political force nationwide, after the Justicialist Party and the Radical Civic Union, and it then allied with the government of Carlos Menem in support of privatization and liberal economic reforms. In later years it joined alliances with PRO, Cambiemos and the Frente Despertar. As of October 2020 the party did not hold legal recognition nationwide.