Christian Democratic Union (Ecuador)

The Democracia Popular ( DP) ( dt: People's Democracy ) (actually: Democracia Popular - Unión Demócrata Cristiana (DP - UDC) ), today: Unión Demócrata Cristiana (UDC ) ( dt: Christian Democratic Union) is a moderate left-wing, Christian Democratic Party of Ecuador, which was founded in 1979 as Democracia Popular formal. Since 1964 was a predecessor organization Democracia Cristiana Popular with little political relevance. Your current president is Diego Ordóñez.

At the time of its foundation presented the DP with Osvaldo Hurtado already the vice president in the government of Jaime Roldós, who should take over the government after his death. She was always represented with some MPs in Parliament without being able to form majorities. The presidential candidacies of Julio César Trujillo in 1984, Jamil Mahuad in 1988, Vladimiro Álvarez 1992, Rodrigo Paz in 1996 were unsuccessful. Only in 1998 she worked with Jamil Mahuad - with the support of the conservative Partido Social Cristiano - back the president. Until then, she ruled for 12 years, the city of Quito from -1992 to 1998 with Mahuad as mayor and for 8 years the city of Cuenca. Since retiring Mahuad in 2000, it is significantly weakened. 2006, the DP has renamed Unión Cristiana Demócrata. In the elections in the same year she had five deputies in the National Congress, in the elections to the Constituent Assembly in 2007 not a single. Could not obtain the UDC headquarters also in the elections to the National Assembly in 2009.

The UDC has the Juventud Demócrata Cristiana ( JDC ) has an active youth organization.