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Uruguay New Sector
After breaking away from the Broad Front in early 1989,
the
PDC and PGP joined with the Civic Union (Unión Cívica--UC)
to
form a coalition called the Integration Movement
(Movimiento de
Integración--MI). The MI nominated the PGP leader,
Batalla--a
senator, journalist, and lawyer--as its 1989 presidential
candidate. On July 24, these three social democratic
parties
comprising the MI--the PGP, PDC, and UC--formally created
a leftof -center electoral alliance within the MI called the New
Sector
(Nuevo Espacio), which reaffirmed Batalla as its
presidential
candidate.
Juan Guillermo Young and Carlos Vassallo, dissidents
from the
conservative Civic Union of Uruguay (Unión Cívica del
Uruguay--
UCU), a Catholic party founded in 1912, founded the PDC in
1962,
when the UCU officially became the PDC. A left-of-center
party,
the PDC advocated social transformation through democratic
means.
The PDC soon fractionalized. In 1971, when the PDC joined
with
the PCU and PSU in the Broad Front, PDC dissidents,
including
former UCU members, broke away and formed the UC, an
anti-Marxist
social Christian party. The UC recognized a Christian
democratic
faction that also split from the PDC in 1980. From
November 1982
to August 1984, the military regime banned the PDC for its
policy
of casting blank ballots.
In the second half of the 1980s, the UC was divided
between
its traditional sector, the Progressive Faction (Corriente
Progresista), led by Humberto Ciganda and made up of other
longtime leaders; the Renewal Faction (Corriente
Renovadora), led
by members of the Chamber of Representatives Julio
Daverede and
Heber Rossi Passina; the UC secretary general, Héctor
Pérez
Piera; and youth leaders. One leader of the UC's
Progressive
Faction, the late Juan Vicente Chiarino, served as
Sanguinetti's
defense minister. The withdrawal of the UC's presidential
candidate, Ciganda, from the November 1989 elections
widened the
split within the party.
Data as of December 1990
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