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Independent Democratic Union

Independent Democratic Union
Unión Demócrata Independiente
Leader Hernán Larraín
Secretary-General Guillermo Ramírez
Chief of Deputies María José Hoffmann
Chief of Senators Victor Pérez Varela
Founded September 24, 1983
Headquarters Suecia 286, Providencia, Santiago de Chile
Youth wing Juventud UDI
National affiliation Chile Vamos
Membership  (2009) 77,753 (7th)
Ideology National conservatism
Social conservatism
Conservatism
Neoliberalism
Gremialismo
Political position Centre-right to Right-wing
International affiliation International Democrat Union
Regional affiliation Union of Latin American Parties
Colours Blue, White and Yellow
Chamber of Deputies
29 / 120
Senate
8 / 38
Regional boards
46 / 278
Mayors
60 / 345
Communal Councils
352 / 2,224
Party flag
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Website
http://www.udi.cl/

The Independent Democratic Union (Unión Demócrata Independiente, UDI) is a Chilean centre-right to right-wing, conservative political party, founded in 1983. Its founder was the lawyer, politician and law professor Jaime Guzmán, a civilian who collaborated with Augusto Pinochet. Guzmán was a senator from 1990 until his assassination on April 1, 1991.

Its ideological origins date back to Guzmán's Guildist Movement, born out of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 1966, espousing the independence and depoliticization of intermediate bodies of civil society.

UDI, together with National Renewal (RN) and other minor movements, formed a coalition of right-wing parties called Coalition for Change, which is the successor to Alliance for Chile and rose to power in March 2010, after victory in the presidential elections of January 2010. It was the largest political party in Congress between 2010 and 2014.

In the Chilean parliamentary election, 2009, UDI held the largest majority in the election of deputies, electing 40 deputies (one third of the House) with 23.04% (1,507,001 votes), and got 21.21% (369,594 votes) in the election of senators. Its bench is the largest obtained by a single party in Chile since 1990. UDI currently has 39 deputies and 8 senators.

In the Chilean municipal election, 2008, UDI got 347 councilmen (16.16% of councilmen) by a vote of 15.11%, and obtained 58 mayors (16.81% of mayors) by a vote of 20.05%. That year, it was the largest party by elected councilmen and the most voted for party in the election of councilmen. Also, UDI is the second largest party by number of mayors in Chile (only one mayor less than Partido Demócrata Cristiano de Chile).


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