The Christian Democratic Party of Uruguay

Uruguay

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 (Spanish: Partido Demócrata Cristiano) is a political party

Political party

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 of the Christian Left

Christian left

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.

Affiliation

It is part of the governing Progressive Encounter-New Majority

Broad Front (Uruguay)

The Broad Front is a Uruguayan left-wing coalition of political parties. It is led by Jorge Brovetto. Frente Amplio has close ties with PIT-CNT trade union and the cooperative housing movement.-History:...

 (Encuentro Progresista-Frente Amplio-Nueva Mayoría) bloc. It is a part of the Progressive Alliance

Progressive Alliance (Uruguay)

The Progressive Alliance is a social-democratic political party of Uruguay founded in 1999 by the former Vice President Rodolfo Nin Novoa, since then is part of the Frente Amplio....

, which in turn forms part of the Liber Seregni Front

Liber Seregni Front

The Liber Seregni Front is the name of the centre-left sector inside the Frente Amplio which was created by Danilo Astori leader of Uruguay Assembly, Rafael Michelini leader of New Space and Rodolfo Nin Novoa leader of Progressive Alliance, in August 2009, before the election...

 uniting the more moderate centre-left and centrist sectors of the Broad Front.

The Civic Union (Uruguay)

Civic Union (Uruguay)

Civic Union is a small Uruguayan political party.It was founded in 1971 by dissidents of the Christian Democratic Party who did not want to join the Frente Amplio alliance. The party delivered a minister of defense in 1985, after parliamentary democracy was restored to Uruguay.The party...

 split from the party in 1971.

Programme

Its platform calls for "a communitarian society" and a "social state", as well as "absolute respect for human life" (including opposition to abortion

Abortion

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). It further calls for "alternative forms of production, distribution, consumption and accumulation" that are "superior to capitalist and state-owned enterprises", including:

• a social market economy
  Social market economy
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• cooperatives
• self-management or self-governing enterprises (autogestión)
• ecological economics
  Ecological economics
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• respect for the commons
• support for the nonprofit sector