Christian Democratic Union Party of Central America

  

Christian Democratic Union Party of Central America
Leader	Isolda Menjivar (DC)
Chairperson	Tomas Guardado (ES)
Founded	July 11, 1993 (1993-07-11)
Headquarters	San Salvador, El Salvador
Student wing	Unión de Estudiantes Demócratas Cristianos
Youth wing	Unión de La Juventud Demócrata Cristiana
Women's wing	Unión de Mujeres Demócrata Cristianas
LGBT wing	Unión de Arcoíris Demócrata Cristianos
Overseas wing	Unión Demócrata Cristiana Internacional
Ideology	Christian democracy Liberal conservatism Fiscal conservatism American unionism
Political position	Big tent to center-right
National affiliation	New Society and New Hope
International affiliation	International Democrat Union Centrist Democrat International
American affiliation	Americans for Democracy and Liberty
Official colors	Dark purple
House of Initiatives	4 / 50
House of Delegates	14 / 234
American Parliament	0 / 45
Governorships	1 / 10
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Christian Democratic Union Party (Spanish: Partido Unión Demócrata Cristiana) is a center-right political party in Central America. It serves as a coalition party with the Nationalist Party and PUDC have moderate seats in the bicameral Constitutional Assembly. The current party leader is the incumbent Distrito Capital Governor Isolda Menjivar.

The party was founded in July 11, 1993 by former 1987 presidential candidate Joaquín Cereceda. He negotiated to the minor Christian democratic parties to form the PUDC. It failed to have seats in both houses of the Constitutional Assembly until 2002. PUDC had marketed themselves as conservative alternatives to the Nationalists and Unidades. They support FCA's continued membership in the CAS. The party members have divided opinions towards the diplomatic relationship to the United Commonwealth and Landonism because most of its members are Roman Catholics, with the minority groups of Protestants, Avigonese Catholic, and other Christian groups. The party supported gun control but opposes abortion, and legalization of marijuana. In terms of LGBT rights, PUDC have divided opinions for same-sex marriage, but they supported gender equality and anti-discrimination.

See also

• Conservatism in Central America