Andalusian Unity ( es, Unidad Andaluza, UA) was a political party launched in December 1980 by former minister

Manuel Clavero Manuel Francisco Clavero Arévalo (25 April 1926 – 14 June 2021) was a Spanish lawyer and politician who as Assistant Minister of the Regions between July 1977 and April 1979 contributed to the construction of the current State of Autonom ...

as a split from the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) over disagreement with UCD's autonomic policy on the

1980 Andalusian autonomy initiative referendum A referendum on the initiative of the Andalusian autonomy process was held in Andalusia on Thursday, 28 February 1980. Voters were asked whether they ratified a proposed initiative for the provinces of Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, ...

. The party was officially registered on 22 January 1981. Clavero was the party's president, whereas Manuel Otero Luna was elected as secretary general. An electoral coalition with the conservative People's Alliance (AP) was considered ahead of the

1982 Andalusian regional election The 1982 Andalusian regional election was held on Sunday, 23 May 1982, to elect the 1st Parliament of the autonomous community of Andalusia. All 109 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia (P ...

, but in the end it was rejected and the party chose not to contest the election out of a lack of campaign funding. It also unsuccessfully probed a coalition with

Adolfo Suárez Adolfo Suárez González, 1st Duke of Suárez (; 25 September 1932 – 23 March 2014) was a Spanish lawyer and politician. Suárez was Spain's first democratically elected prime minister since the Second Spanish Republic and a key figure in th ...

's Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) ahead of the

1982 Spanish general election The 1982 Spanish general election was held on Thursday, 28 October 1982, to elect the 2nd Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 254 seats in the Senate. The el ...

. In the end, the party was dissolved on 27 November 1982 over a lack of political and economical viability.

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