Union, Progress and Democracy

Union, Progress and Democracy
Unión Progreso y Democracia
Spokesperson Gorka Maneiro[1]
Founded 26 September 2007 (2007-09-26)
Headquarters C/ Cedaceros, 11, 2º H, 28014, Madrid
Think tank Progress and Democracy Foundation
Membership 6,071 (2014)[2]
Ideology Progressivism
Social liberalism
Secularism
Centralism
Radicalism
Constitutionalism
European federalism
Radical centrism
Monarchism
Spanish patriotism
Political position Centre
European affiliation None
International affiliation None
European Parliament group Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Colours      Magenta
Regional Parliaments
1 / 1,268
European Parliament
2 / 54
Local Government (2015)
128 / 67,511
Mayors in Spain
3 / 8,122
Website
www.upyd.es

Union, Progress and Democracy[3][4][5][6][7][8] (Spanish: Unión Progreso y Democracia[note 1] [uˈnjon pɾoˈɣɾeso i ðemoˈkɾaθja], official abbreviation UPyD [upeiˈðe], occasionally referred to as UPD [upeˈðe]) is a Spanish political party founded in September 2007. It is a social liberal party which rejects any form of nationalism,[9] especially peripheral nationalism like the separatist Basque and Catalan movements.[10] The party is deeply pro-European and wants the European Union to adopt a federal system without overlap between the European, national and regional governments.[11] Besides, the magenta party wants a symmetric and quite centralist, albeit still federal, system for Spain as well as substituting a more proportional election law for the current one.[12]

Mikel Buesa, at a 2007 party presentation, and Rosa Díez, in an interview for a magazine, explained the origin of the three concepts which make up the party's name: Union because of their "unconditional defence of the unity of Spain as an indispensable element to ensure Spaniards' equality before the law". Progress because they affirm to be "a progressive party with social liberal roots and respectful of individual liberty". And Democracy because they are "a radical party which commits itself to regenerating democracy".[13][14][15][16]

UPyD first stood for election in the 9 March 2008 general election. It received 303,246 votes, or 1.2 percent of the national total, and one seat in the Congress of Deputies[17] for party co-founder Rosa Díez, becoming the newest party with national representation in Spain. Although its core is in the Basque Autonomous Community, with roots in anti-ETA civic associations, it addresses a national audience. Prominent members of the party include philosopher Fernando Savater, party founder and former PSOE MEP Rosa Díez, philosopher Carlos Martínez Gorriarán and writer Álvaro Pombo.

At its Second Party Congress in November 2013, UPyD reported 6,165 registered members (down from an all-time high of 6,634 in 2011.[18] In 2009 the party founded the think tank Fundación Progreso y Democracia (FPyD: Progress and Democracy Foundation), which has been presided over by UPyD spokesperson Rosa Díez.[19]

In the general elections held on 20 November 2011, the party won 1,143,225 votes (4.70 percent), five seats in the Congress of Deputies[20] (four in Madrid and one in Valencia) and became the fourth-largest political force in the country. It had the greatest increase of votes over the previous general election of any party.[21]

Origins

Two seated, middle-aged men
Álvaro Pombo (left) and Fernando Savater at a party meeting

On 19 May 2007, 45 people met in San Sebastián to discuss the creation of a new political party opposing both major parties (the People's Party and the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) at the national level. Most present were Basques, many of whom had long experience in political, union and civic organizations with left-wing, liberal and activist backgrounds. After the meeting, to create a broad-based social and political project they formed the Plataforma Pro organization. This united those who considered it necessary to form a new national political party appealing to people across the democratic political spectrum. Its platform was:

Among the supporters of Plataforma Pro were philosopher Fernando Savater, ¡Basta Ya! coordinator and spokesman Carlos Martínez Gorriarán and former Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) MEP Rosa Díez. Díez resigned her PSOE membership and her MEP position in August 2007 to become involved with the UPyD project. Groups supporting Plataforma Pro included Citizens of Catalonia (notably Albert Boadella, Arcadi Espada and Xavier Pericay) and ¡Basta Ya!, a major influence on the new movement. In September 2007, Forum Ermua president Mikel Buesa announced their intention to participate in the political party arising from Plataforma Pro; he resigned in 2009 due to disagreements with Rosa Díez.

Woman speaking onstage, with others seated at a dais
Teresa Giménez Barbat, UPyD council member in Catalonia and president of Citizens of Catalonia

At a 29 September 2007 meeting in the auditorium of the Casa de Campo in Madrid, the new party was formed. Participants in its formation included Catalan dramatist Albert Boadella, Basque philosopher Fernando Savater, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa and Rosa Díez. Also present were journalist Arcadi Espada, anthropologists Teresa Giménez Barbat and Felix Perez Romera (three prominent Citizens of Catalonia members), historian Antonio Elorza, painter Agustín Ibarrola, former Forum Ermua leader Mikel Buesa, philosopher Carlos Martínez Gorriarán, Citizens deputies Albert Rivera and Antonio Robles, Peruvian writer Fernando Iwasaki, former UGT secretary general Nicolas Redondo and People's Party Basque MP Fernando Maura. Maura joined the new party's advisory council on 6 November 2007. Writer Álvaro Pombo later expressed support for UPyD, running as a candidate for the party.

Ideology

Woman in a dress, speaking at a podium
Rosa Díez at a party meeting

UPyD has been assessed by the vast majority of political scientists and the media such as the European Social Survey, The Financial Times[22] and The Economist[23] as a centre party, even though it was considered centre-left by Navarra confidencial[24] and centre-right by the Encyclopædia Britannica.[3] Also, the self-proclaimed cross-sectionalism of UPyD has been linked to radical centrism.[25][26][27]

UPyD is a progressive party which combines social liberalism with centralism from the centre of the political spectrum.[28] UPyD is a centralist party which stands out for being the only statewide party that actively defends the abolition of chartered regimes in all Spain, even in those regions which have them: Navarre and the Basque Country.[29] Similarly, UPyD argues that the extreme political decentralization of the State of Autonomies has weakened the welfare state and created inequalities across the territory. Accordingly, UPyD wants to adopt a symmetric federalism with a high degree of political centralization in Spain.

UPyD wholeheartedly defends the unity of Spain, thereby being an enemy of peripheral nationalism. Although UPyD is a progressive party strongly characterized by its rejection of peripheral nationalism,[30] it also has objections to nation-state nationalism, including Spanish nationalism, because this kind of nationalism is considered a threat to the progress of Europe's unity.[31][32] UPyD is the most pro-European party in Spain and therefore supports a federal Europe, which the magenta party sees as an important guarantor of individual rights.[33]

Ideologically, UPyD is not defined by itself as either left or right and its constituency includes voters with an affinity for the political right as well as part of the Socialist Party's disenchanted voters.[34] When UPyD is asked to be placed on the left–right political spectrum, it defines itself as "a centre party that is simultaneously positioned on cross-sectionalism, thus embracing ideas across the political spectrum".[35][36] According to spokesperson Rosa Díez, the party is "progressive and cross-sectional: it's got leftist people and right-wing, liberal people".[37] Other additional identity signs are "constitutionalism", defining it as the upholding of the Spanish state of law under the Spanish Constitution of 1978; "secularism", defining it as the defence of a religiously neutral state in which a religious confession isn't privileged over others;[38] "liberal democracy", defining it as the form of government which best balances power and individual rights;[39][40] "pro-Europeanism", defining it as the desire to move towards a real European federalism with the concept of citizenship as a fundamental pillar;[41] "Spanish patriotism", defining it as the defence of common values: justice, freedom and equality;[42][43] and "non-nationalism", defining it as the opposition to compulsory nationalism.[44] Rosa Díez defined UPyD, in opposition to Spain's peripheral nationalist and pro-independence parties, as "an unequivocally national party, with a unique agenda for Spain".[45] According to Rosa Díez, "social liberalism" is the political doctrine which UPyD is identified with because the party combines elements of "political liberalism" and "social democracy".[46] Furthermore, Rosa Díez said that UPyD is "a radical party which wants to transform politics by bringing off substantial, in-depth changes from within institutions".[47] Also, Miguel Zarranz, UPyD's coordinator in Navarre, has clarified that UPyD is "a partially centralist party because it wants to centralize powers such as education, health, water resource management or transport management within a symmetric federal state with other decentralized responsibilities in the autonomous communities".[48] Lastly, Álvaro Anchuelo commented that UPyD is "a monarchist party insofar as the monarchy fulfils its function".[49]

Policies

Party proposals are:

Woman in a dress, speaking at a podium
Rosa Díez at a party meeting
  1. Reform of the Spanish Constitution of 1978, focusing on three areas:
    • Doing away with the autonomic Spanish state.[50] UPyD wants Spain to adopt a system of symmetric federalism with broad political centralization as a territorial model, [9] clearly defining in the Constitution which powers are exclusive of the State and which ones are transferable to autonomous communities or municipalities.[51] The party wants to centralize competences that concern citizens' fundamental rights like education, health and justice among others[52] because the State of Autonomies, besides creating nationwide inequalities,[53][54] is considered to be "elephantine, politically unviable and economically unsustainable".[55] Another aspect of UPyD's symmetric federalism is the abolition of Navarre's and the Basque Country's chartered regimes, establishing a common system of funding for all autonomous communities.[56] Other noteworthy proposals are the suppression of provincial councils (diputaciones provinciales) and district councils (comarcas),[57] the merger of municipalities with less than 5,000 inhabitants[58] and the elimination of the Senate.[59]
    • Improvement and reinforcement of individual rights and obligations, strictly defined for all Spanish citizens without territorial, linguistic, ideological or religious inequalities. UPyD supports the unity of Spain because it's "the only instrument capable of ensuring the equality of the whole of the Spanish citizenry".[60]
    • Deepening of the separation of powers, increasing judicial autonomy to ensure the independence of the Constitutional Court, the Court of Accounts and economic regulatory bodies from the executive.
  2. By turning Spain into a secular state, the party supports a revision of existing agreements with the Holy See, the self-financing of the Catholic Church and other religious confessions and the total separation of church and state.[61] Secularity for UPyD consists in "respecting only religions which are compatible with human rights, the state of law and democracy",[62][63] so the magenta party decries Islam because of "adulterous women's stoning" and "homosexuals' murder".[64][65] Following this line of thought, the party supports the banning of Islamic headscarves (from burqa to hijab) in public spaces because they are considered "a way to subjugate women to men within Islam".[66][67]
  3. Reform of election law to achieve voter equality, regardless of residence, and increase minority-party representation. In 2008 Rosa Díez submitted a bill in the Congress of Deputies to amend the Organic Act of the General Electoral Regime (LOREG), increasing the number of MPs from 350 to 400. Of the 400 MPs, one would be elected from each province and one from each autonomous community for a total of 52. Another 146 MPs would be elected by autonomous communities proportionate to population. The remaining 200 would be elected from a single, national-character constituency. The party proposed eliminating the requirement for extra-parliamentary parties to receive 0.1 percent of their constituencies' electorate,[68] later replacing the D'Hondt method with the Hare quota.[69]
  4. Improvements in public education to promote secularism and scientific investigation, end language discrimination and ensure language choice in all nonlinguistic subjects in autonomous communities with more than one official language. UPyD guarantees bilingualism by making the study of Spanish and regional languages compulsory.[70] The party opposes language discrimination in all public services.[71][72]
  5. Changes in the democratic system: an open list electoral system,[73] direct election of mayors in a two-round system (preventing post-election agreements misrepresenting the citizens' will),[74] a limit of two successive full terms for executive public officeholders,[75] banning the combination of two (or more) public offices[76] and reducing former high officeholders' conflicts of interest.[77] The party suggests making political parties' funding more transparent, increasing their independence from economic interests.
  6. Defeating ETA and other terrorist organizations, closing their funding channels and blocking their political justification. UPyD wants to outlaw the Amaiur, Bildu, EH Bildu and Sortu, considering the groups ETA's political arm; they justify ETA's violence, calling its imprisoned members "jailed politicians".[78][79]
  7. Economic and social measures promoting economic development and correcting inequalities. The state should improve workers' education, training and safety, integrate internal markets with infrastructure, favour research and innovation in business and guarantee economic freedom and competition.
  8. Immigration control: Although the party believes that Ceuta’s and Melilla’s border fences must be protected, illegal immigrants must be treated sensitively and humanely.[80] UPyD believes that the Civil Guard should stop illegal immigrants and legally repatriate them to their country of origin or return them to the country which they entered from without violating their human rights.[81] It opposes the use of razor wires[82] and rubber bullets,[81] asking the European Union for a European action protocol to stop illegal immigration.[81] The party wants the European Commission to include Ceuta and Melilla in the European customs area so the European Union will be involved in administering European external borders in both cities.[83] UPyD would like to strengthen EU territorial integration.
  9. Environmental policy which makes technological and economic development compatible with environmental and biodiversity protection. The party favors nuclear energy as part of an energy mix which includes renewable energy[84] and hydraulic fracturing,[85] scientific research of climate change and possible corrective measures, and strengthening laws on the protection of natural areas, opposing the loss of coastline and sensitive natural areas to urbanization and other misuses.
  10. UPyD favors a Limits Law decriminalizing abortion before fourteen weeks.[86] Limits would be determined by medical and scientific consensus, based on the early detection of malformations. Beyond that period UPyD favors abortion only to save a mother's life, reconciling her right to consenting maternity with the protection of an unborn person.[87] The party considers abortion "a drama" rather than a right, supporting early sex education and information about all available contraceptive methods to prevent unwanted pregnancies.[88] UPyD opposes abortion access by minors without parental consent.[89]

Funding

Shortly after the party's creation, on 13 December 2007, UPyD held a press conference headed by Rosa Díez, Mikel Buesa, and Fernando Savater at which it denounced "evidently unequal" treatment by Spanish banks, which denied the party loans while forgiving debts held by the other political parties. Although party activity was funded by membership fees and small donations, it "could not continue this way" or contest an election with such meager resources. Therefore, the party leadership decided to offer €200, €500 and €1,000 bonds to fund the party's campaign for the 2008 general elections. The bonds, totaling €3 million–€5 million, were sold at party offices, on the internet and over a toll-free phone line. The party pledged to report the amount of the loans obtained and the state of its accounts, and intended to repay the money after the elections with institutional funding for parties with parliamentary representation.

Elections

Smiling woman standing at a podium, flanked by two applauding men
Luis de Velasco Rami, Rosa Díez and David Ortega

The party's national spokesperson, Rosa Díez, won a seat in the general election of 2008 from Madrid Province with 3.74 percent of the vote. Other prominent candidates were writer Álvaro Pombo (for the Senate) and Carlos Martínez Gorriarán, both of whom failed to win seats.

In 2009, the party gained representation in the European Parliamentary election and the Basque Regional Elections. Their MEP, Francisco Sosa Wagner, sat in the non-aligned group in the European parliament. In the Basque elections, Gorka Maneiro was elected to represent Álava.

In 2011, Luis de Velasco Rami and 7 other UPyD members were elected to the Madrid Assembly, with UPyD becoming the fourth-largest party. In the 2011 local elections, the party won seats in Madrid, Burgos, Ávila, Granada, Alicante and Murcia. UPyD received the fourth-largest number of votes in the 2011 general election: 1,143,225, or 4.70 percent. Of the five seats won, four (held by Rosa Díez, Carlos Martínez Gorriarán, Álvaro Anchuelo and Irene Lozano) were in Madrid; actor Toni Cantó was elected in Valencia Province.

In the 2014 European Parliament Elections, Francisco Sosa Wagner was re-elected, and UPyD won three extra seats (for Maite Pagazaurtundúa, Fernando Maura and Beatriz Becerra), consolidating their support nationwide. The party's MEPs planned to join the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) Group.[90]

Criticism

In July 2009, party co-founder Mikel Buesa announced his resignation from UPyD, denouncing "authoritarian control" imposed by a group in the party.[91] After its First Party Congress in November 2009, 100 UPyD critics (including four founding members) left the party, "tired and disappointed" with the "authoritarian" Rosa Díez and the party's "lack of internal democracy".[92] By early 2010, the party lost 40 percent of its membership in Catalonia,[93] amid allegations that the party was a fraud.[94]

Electoral performance

Cortes Generales

Election Votes % # Congress Senate Gov't Leader
2008 306,079 1.19 6th
1 / 350
0 / 208
 No Rosa Díez
2011 1,143,225 4.70 4th
5 / 350
0 / 208
 No Rosa Díez
2015 155,153 0.62 11th
0 / 350
0 / 208
 Andrés Herzog

European Parliament

Election Votes % # Seats Candidate Notes
2009 451,866 2.85 5th
1 / 54
 Francisco Sosa Wagner
2014 1,022,232 6.51 5th
4 / 54
 Francisco Sosa Wagner

Local councils

Election Votes % # Councillors Leader Notes
2011 464,824 2.06 5th
152 / 68,286
 Rosa Díez
2015 232,478 1.04 12th
128 / 67,515
 Rosa Díez

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ↑ The official Spanish name doesn't include the comma, as said in the Official Registry of Political Parties.

References

  1. ↑ (Spanish) Gorka Maneiro encabeza la nueva Dirección de UPYD, UPyD
  2. ↑ (Spanish)UPyD saca pecho en plena guerra con C's y presume de tener 2.000 simpatizantes más - El Confidencial
  3. 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica 2014, p. 488: "and Union, Progress and Democracy (UPD, 7.7%) on the centre-right"
  4. ↑ Ugarriza & Caluwaerts 2014, p. 68.
  5. ↑ Bel i Queralt 2012, p. XVII.
  6. ↑ Field & Botti 2013, p. 10.
  7. ↑ Ross, Richardson & Sangrador-Vegas 2013, p. 77.
  8. ↑ Ştefuriuc 2013, p. XII.
  9. 1 2 "Political Parties in Andalucia - UPyD". andalucia.com. Retrieved 25 August 2015. Formed in 2007, the UPYD is a social liberal party that rejects nationalism in all forms and wants to adopt a system of symmetric federalism with political centralization as a territorial model
  10. ↑ Henderson, Karen; Sitter, Nick (2008), "Political Developments in the EU Member States", The JCMS Annual Review of the European Union in 2007 (Wiley), p. 196
  11. ↑ "12 propuestas de UPyD | Europa federal". cadavotovale.es. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
  12. ↑ "browser – TPL_WARP_OUTDATEDBROWSER_PAGE_TITLE". sevillaactualidad.com. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
  13. ↑ Unión, Progreso y Democracia (18 December 2007). "La economía hace aguas por todos los lados, se ha aumentado la presión fiscal en un 2 % del PIB". upyd.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 January 2015. Mikel Buesa explicó el significado de la denominación del partido, "Unión porque somos un partido contra la disgregación política de la última legislatura y abogamos por la unión de España sin condiciones, Progreso porque somos un partido progresista de raíz liberal y socialdemócrata y, por otra parte, respetamos la libertad individual y de elección y Democracia porque es el sistema que alberga todas las identidades, podemos ser lo que queramos y lo podemos expresar libremente"
  14. ↑ Mezcua, Unai (18 May 2015). "UPyD: "El magenta es necesario para crear otros colores, como lo es UPyD para la regeneración de la democracia"" (in Spanish). ABC. Retrieved 19 May 2015. En las directrices que Díez envió a la agencia figuraba una fundamental, según explica Labarthe: "que en el logotipo estuvieran representados los conceptos e ideas que defendemos como Unión, Progreso y Democracia". En 2007, cuando Díez presentó UPyD arropada por Mikel Buesa, Carlos Martínez Gorriarán y Fernando Savater, desde el partido se justificó la elección del nombre porque defendería incondicionalmente la unidad de España, respetaría las libertades individuales y apostaría por una democracia "radical"
  15. ↑ Navarro, Pedro Antonio (17 September 2007). "Rosa Díez: "El voto del desencanto nos vendrá desde la izquierda"". El siglo de Europa (in Spanish) 754. ISSN 2254-9234. Retrieved 1 May 2016. Reivindicamos la unión; la unión es más que la unidad, en el sentido de compañeros, pero en el sentido etimológico del término, de acompañar, de trabajar juntos, de compartir. La unión, frente a un momento en que en España, lo que más se lleva –y parece que es lo más progre– es la diversidad. Creo que hay diversas posiciones, diversas historias, diversas culturas, pero tiene que haber una unión en la ley, tenemos que ser todos iguales. Queríamos expresar que la igualdad sólo es posible con la unión, con la unión en lo sustancial. Progreso, no hace falta que lo explique. Es nuestra apuesta; aunque sabemos que el término progreso no es una palabra de la que se deba apropiar nadie, pero nosotros venimos de la izquierda y no renunciamos a ello. Y, si bien es cierto que sabemos que muchas veces, en nombre de la izquierda, se hacen políticas que fomentan la desigualdad, como, por ejemplo, el Estatuto de Autonomía de Cataluña, que por mucho que se haga en nombre de la izquierda, no son políticas de progreso, nosotros reivindicamos las verdaderas políticas de progreso, las plantee quien las plantee, y rechazamos las políticas que tienen efectos reaccionarios, se planteen por quien se planteen. Y Democracia, porque es nuestra apuesta la regeneración democrática
  16. ↑ Europa Press (9 September 2014). "Díez espera concretar "esta semana" los términos de una "posible reunión" con Albert Rivera". Europa Press (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 May 2016. Según ha dicho, UPyD es un partido "radical" pero "profundamente institucional" que aspira a cambiar España y las instituciones, pero desde dentro de ellas, a "regenerar la democracia y a defender el Estado, que es la garantía de la igualdad de los españoles"
  17. ↑ 2008 Cortes Generales Election Results. Ministerio del Interior. 10 March 2008. Last Retrieved 10 April 2008. (Spanish)
  18. ↑ "UPyD alcanzó su cuota máxima de afiliación en 2011 con más de 6.600 miembros (spanish)". Europa Press. 1 November 2013. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
  19. ↑ Presentación (Spanish), Fundación Progreso y Democracia website, Retrieved 6 April 2014
  20. ↑ Gobierno de España (20 November 2011). "Resultados de UPyD en las Elecciones Generales de 2011". Retrieved 21 November 2011.
  21. ↑ "El llamativo ascenso de UPyD, región a región". La Voz Libre. 21 November 2011. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
  22. ↑ Buck, Tobias (25 February 2014), "Spain's Popular party challenged by newcomers", Financial Times, retrieved 28 May 2014
  23. ↑ A paella coalition?, The Economist
  24. ↑ (Spanish) 3 perspectivas para analizar los resultados de las elecciones, Navarra Confidencial
  25. ↑ "How much is enough?". The Economist. 6 November 2008. Retrieved 9 June 2011. Mr Savater and Rosa Díez, a former Basque Socialist leader, have set up a new party of the radical centre called Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD), in an effort to combine social liberalism with a defence of the idea of Spain
  26. ↑ Dvořáková, Monika (2012). "Politický a stranický systém Andalusie a volby v letech 2008 - 2012" (pdf) (in Czech). Masarykova univerzita: 19. Retrieved February 3, 2016. UPyD je považována za stranu radikálního centrismu
  27. ↑ Azagra Ros & Romero González 2012, p. 120: "más el radical-centrismo de UPyD"
  28. ↑ Mateos, Araceli; Penadés, Alberto (2013). "España: crisis y recortes" (pdf). Revista de ciencia política (Santiago) (in Spanish) 33 (1): 175. ISSN 0718-090X. Retrieved January 12, 2016. Unión Progreso y Democracia (5 escaños) es un partido de centro, con una combinación de ideología social liberal y de centralismo territorial, enemigo del nacionalismo periférico en España
  29. ↑ Gillespie & Gray 2015: "The Concierto has been subject to a growing number of attacks from both PP and socialist politicians in other ACs and from the most centralist party, Unión Progreso y Democracia (UPyD, Union Progress and Democracy) founded in 2007 —the only state-wide party actively to oppose the Concierto even in the Basque Country"
  30. ↑ Medina, Lucía (2015). "From recession to long-lasting political crisis? Continuities and changes in Spanish politics in times of crisis and austerity" (pdf). Working Paper. Vol. 334 (Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials (ICPS)). p. 4. ISSN 1133-8962. Retrieved 3 Feb 2016. and Union, Progress and Democracy (a progressive party founded in 2007 and strongly characterized by its rejection of the peripheral nationalisms
  31. ↑ The Democratic Society. "Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD)". demsoc.org. Retrieved 3 Feb 2016. Its key issue is opposition to nationalism, predominantly sub-state nationalism though it also has objections to Spanish nationalism
  32. ↑ (Spanish) UPyD: Los nacionalismos, estatales o separatistas, son la gran amenaza para la Unión Europea, UPyD
  33. ↑ The Democratic Society. "Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD)". demsoc.org. Retrieved 3 Feb 2016. The party is the most pro-European in Spain, and supports a federal Europe, which it sees as an important guarantor of individual rights
  34. ↑ Muñoz Mendoza 2012, p. 65: "UPyD, que evita ubicarse con claridad en el eje izquierda-derecha, recoge algunos sectores descontentos del PSOE pero también ciertos sectores más o menos vinculados con la derecha"
  35. ↑ "Andrés Herzog sucederá a Rosa Díez al frente de UPyD" (in Spanish). Reuters. 11 July 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016. En su último discurso como portavoz de UPyD, Díez reivindicó a su formación -que se define como un partido progresista situado en el centro político-, como el artífice del cambio político en España
  36. ↑ (Spanish) "UPyD ofrece entendimiento a través del transversalismo, que bien pueden servir sin necesidad de inclinarse a un lado o a otro, ya que todos tienen algo positivo que aportar y la formación magenta sabe bien sintetizar lo mejor de cada idea, ofreciendo un dulce cóctel al ciudadano" - UPyD
  37. ↑ (Spanish) Rosa Díez abre las puertas del nuevo partido a la "derecha liberal" - Libertad Digital
  38. ↑ Fernández-Savater Martín, Fernando (October 1, 2013). "Laicismo y lengua común". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved October 31, 2014.
  39. ↑ (Spanish) "y avanzar hacia una auténtica democracia liberal igualitaria", Political resolutions of UPyD's second congress
  40. ↑ (Spanish) GRACIAS, MARIO... AUNQUE SÓLO SIRVAS PARA ESCRIBIR, UPyD
  41. ↑ Unión, Progreso y Democracia. "UPyD propone avanzar hacia un federalismo europeo, con el ciudadano como protagonista" (pdf). upyd.es. Retrieved 15 April 2016. El europeísmo es una de las ideas que atraviesan todo el pensamiento político de Unión Progreso y Democracia. [...] Por ello, UPyD propone avanzar hacia un verdadero federalismo europeo con el concepto de ciudadanía como pilar fundamental en la construcción de la UE
  42. ↑ (Spanish) Rosa Díez: «ser patriota español no es otra cosa que defender los valores comunes», UPyD
  43. ↑ (Spanish) Rosa Díez presenta a UPyD como el partido del voto útil - La Voz de Galicia
  44. ↑ Martínez Gorriarán, Carlos (27 November 2008). "Constitucionalistas". upyd.es (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 5 November 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2015. A mediados de los ochenta se hacía urgente encontrar un término alternativo al de "no nacionalistas" que usábamos para distinguirnos del nacionalismo obligatorio
  45. ↑ (Spanish) Rosa Díez asegura que hay suficientes ciudadanos descontentos como para conseguir hasta dos diputados nacionales por Burgos - Radio Arlanzón
  46. ↑ "El día menos pensado - Rosa Díez: "Si fuera Rajoy hace tiempo que estaría negociando condiciones del rescate"" (in Spanish). RTVE. 18 September 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2015. Dentro de Unión, Progreso y Democracia coexisten y conviven bien esas dos grandes familias del pensamiento político europeo: el liberalismo político y la socialdemocracia. Si hubiera que buscarle un adjetivo, pero es que no me gustan los adjetivos, pues diría que somos un partido, por las políticas que defendemos y no porque nos definamos así, pues que podríamos decir social liberal
  47. ↑ (Spanish) "Somos un partido radical y profundamente institucional, hay que transformar la política a fondo y de fondo desde las instituciones", UPyD
  48. ↑ (Spanish) UPyD dice que no contempla colaborar con UPN "ni antes ni después de las elecciones", Periodista Digital
  49. ↑ (Spanish) UPyD apoya la monarquía en la medida que "cumpla su función" - Agencia Efe
  50. ↑ (Spanish) Rosa Díez: “Hay que elegir: O Estado de las autonomías o el Estado del bienestar”, El País
  51. ↑ Europa Press (4 May 2013). "UPyD dice que la encuesta del CIS en la Región avala su propuesta sobre la necesidad de reformar el modelo territorial". Europa Press (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 September 2015. Así, ha subrayado las propuestas de su partido para que haya un único modelo de financiación autonómico, eliminando los regímenes forales del País Vasco y Navarra, cuya financiación tenga como base la población de las distintas Comunidades y en el que queden recogidas en la Constitución cuáles son las competencias exclusivas del Estado, entre ellas Sanidad y Educación, y cuáles son transferibles a las CCAA
  52. ↑ (Spanish) "Las competencias de educación, sanidad y justicia deben volver a ser del Estado" - UPyD
  53. ↑ Magone 2009, p. 186.
  54. ↑ (Spanish) UPyD denuncia el aumento de desigualdad en riqueza por habitante entre CCAA, con Extremadura y Euskadi en los extremos - Europa Press
  55. ↑ (Spanish) Díez: "Tenemos un modelo de Estado elefantiásico, inviable e insostenible" - Libertad Digital
  56. ↑ "Suprimir la disposición adicional primera que consagra los derechos históricos de los territorios forales, por ser contrarios al valor superior de la igualdad que rige la Constitución y por consolidar una situación inaceptable de privilegio de unos españoles sobre otros, además de por pretender la existencia de derechos históricos anteriores a la Constitución, lo que es insostenible" – Political resolutions of UPyD's first congress
  57. ↑ Díez insiste en eliminar las comarcas y unir municipios - El Periódico de Aragón
  58. ↑ Fusión de ayuntamientos y eliminación de Diputaciones - UPyD
  59. ↑ El Correo (13 August 2012). "Gobernar es elegir, y Rajoy ha elegido amnistiar a los defraudadores en vez de perseguir el fraude". upyd.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 April 2015. La portavoz de UPyD, que según la última encuesta del CIS es la política más valorada por los españoles, cree que la solución pasa por abordar reformas estructurales en el sistema institucional del Estado, entre ellas, la eliminación del Senado
  60. ↑ (Spanish) Discurso de Rosa Díez en la sesión de investidura de José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero - Libertad Digital
  61. ↑ (Spanish) "Hay que revisar el Concordato con la Santa Sede, pero sin aspavientos", UPyD
  62. ↑ El Pueblo de Ceuta’s editorial (30 September 2008). "UPyD festeja su primer año como formación política en Madrid". El Pueblo de Ceuta (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 December 2015. Laico porque “un Estado democrático tiene que ser laico, es decir, neutral ante todas las creencias religiosas respetuosas con los Derechos Humanos y con nuestro sistema jurídico, y también ante la creencia de los que no creen en religión alguna
  63. ↑ "Discurso de Rosa Díez en la sesión de investidura de José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero". Libertad Digital (in Spanish). 9 April 2008. Retrieved 28 December 2015. Creemos que hay que avanzar en la laicidad del Estado precisamente para garantizar un trato justo a todas las confesiones religiosas que sean compatibles con la democracia
  64. ↑ Vilas, Raúl (22 January 2009). "Rosa Díez y UPyD respetan "todas las religiones excepto las que lapidan mujeres"". Libertad Digital (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 December 2015. Ser laico no significa ser antirreligioso, yo no lo soy. El PSOE sí se comporta como un partido antirreligioso". En esta línea, dejó claro que "la laicidad es el respeto a las religiones que sean respetuosas con el Estado de Derecho porque algunas no lo son. Las que lapidan mujeres no lo son". Cuando Federico le pregunta si se refiere al Islam, responde: "Es evidente"
  65. ↑ Díez, Rosa (19 January 2009). "Vamos a por todas". upyd.es (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 23 January 2009. Retrieved 28 December 2015. Si a los del PSOE les parece que somos de derechas porque tachamos de hipócritas a quienes hacen discursos contra la jerarquía eclesiástica católica y no dicen nunca nada contra los líderes religiosos que defienden la lapidación de mujeres o el asesinato de homosexuales, pues, a mucha honra, seremos de derechas
  66. ↑ (Spanish) Rosa Díez (UPyD), favorable a prohibir el velo islámico en espacios públicos, El Confidencial
  67. ↑ (Spanish) UPyD critica la sentencia que avala el uso del burka en edificios municipales, Las Provincias
  68. ↑ Montero & Riera 2010, p. 176.
  69. ↑ (Spanish) Ignacio Prendes: "Proponemos la reforma electoral para que más ciudadanos se sientan representados en nuestro sistema político" - UPyD
  70. ↑ (Spanish) Gorriarán: "Privar a un niño de una educación en lengua materna es un atentado contra sus derechos" - UPyD
  71. ↑ (Spanish) UPyD planteará en el Congreso erradicar por ley la imposición lingüística - Libertad Digital
  72. ↑ (Spanish) En defensa de la igualdad lingüística - UPyD
  73. ↑ (Spanish) "Una reforma de la Ley Electoral no puede ser un parche para responder a un problema puntual" - UPyD
  74. ↑ (Spanish) UPyD exige que los dirigentes políticos asuman su responsabilidad política en el caso de corrupción policial - Europa Press
  75. ↑ (Spanish) Rosa Díez: "En UPyD establecemos limitación de mandatos para nosotros mismos. Y defendemos que para los cargos institucionales ejecutivos esa limitación de mandatos se incorpore en la ley" - Andalucía Información
  76. ↑ (Spanish) UPyD apuesta por la celeridad en sus propuestas de medidas anticorrupción - Te interesa
  77. ↑ (Spanish) UPyD pide una regulación más estricta para evitar "puertas giratorias" como la que permite a Aznar negociar comisiones - Europa Press
  78. ↑ (Spanish) UPyD pide reforzar la Ley de Partidos para que los que apoyan al terrorismo "no destruyan la democracia desde dentro" - UPyD
  79. ↑ (Spanish) Maneiro: "Cuando EH Bildu se refiere a los presos de ETA como "presos políticos" está justificando a ETA" - UPyD of the Basque Country
  80. ↑ (Spanish) Rosa Díez dice que Fernández Díaz se "escondió" detrás de la Guardia Civil - Libertad Digital
  81. 1 2 3 (Spanish) Inmigración. UPyD reclama un protocolo europeo para contener la inmigración ilegal - Lainformación.com
  82. ↑ (Spanish) UPyD critica que el Gobierno recoloque las cuchillas en la valla de Melilla, "crueldad gratuita que atenta contra DDHH" - Europa Press
  83. ↑ (Spanish) UPyD exigirá a la UE que Ceuta y Melilla se incluyan en el espacio aduanero europeo - UPyD
  84. ↑ (Spanish) Rosa Díez pide una "Garoña II" y el mantenimiento de la actual planta - Diario de Burgos
  85. ↑ (Spanish) Gorriarán: "No se puede prohibir el 'fracking' si queremos una política energética racional" - UPyD
  86. ↑ (Spanish) Carlos M. Gorriarán UPyD: "Aborto: no se puede imponer por ley una moral particular" - vidqt.com
  87. ↑ (Spanish) Ni de izquierdas, ni de derechas - El País
  88. ↑ (Spanish) Enmienda a la totalidad de UPyD al Proyecto de Ley Orgánica de salud sexual y reproductiva y de la interrupción voluntaria del embarazo. ABORTO - UPyD
  89. ↑ (Spanish) Toni Cantó pide un "debate serio y en profundidad" sobre la reforma - Europa Press
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  91. ↑ "Mikel Buesa, fundador de UPyD, deja el partido por su 'autoritarismo'". El Mundo. 4 July 2009. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  92. ↑ "Un centenar de críticos de UPyD abandonan el partidoSe confiensan "cansados y decepcionados" con el "autoritarismo" de Rosa Díez y por la "falta de democracia interna"". Público. 12 December 2009. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
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