Christian Democratic Union (Ecuador)

The Christian Democratic Union (Unión Demócrata Cristiana) is a political party in Ecuador of the Christian Right. At the legislative elections, 20 October 2002, the party won 4 out of 100 seats. At the last elections, held in October 2006, it won 2 seats in the Congress. It had no presidential candidate. It was Ecuador's largest political party, having won 35% of the seats in the 1998 elections to the Congreso Nacional. It reached its first great success in 1978 when party member Osvaldo Hurtado became the running mate on the successful presidential ticket of Jaime Roldós. Hurtado served as President of Ecuador from 1981 to 1984 due to Roldós's death in office. In the 1998 elections, party member Jamil Mahuad was elected president, and after a short military coup, he was succeeded in 2000 by the vice-president, Gustavo Noboa, who was also in the party. It had a long-term alliance with the Popular Democratic Party. That alliance ended and the party was severely weakened in the 2002 elections.

The party describes its economic platform as communitarian capitalism. It calls for workers to own the means of production, and for production to be "oriented to human needs rather than the market."^{[citation needed]}

Other planks are:

• income redistribution
• internationalism
• support to neoliberalism

See also

• Christian democratic