The Liberal-Republican Union ( es, Unión Liberal-Republicana, ULR) was a Chilean

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founded in December 1987 from the merger of the

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and

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parties. Its president was Hugo Zepeda Barrios and its secretary general was Gabriel Leon Echaíz. This amalgam was prompted by the lack of significant ideological differences between liberals and Republicans. Still, a conservative Republican sector refused to join the ULR, as some liberals who were critics of the opposition attitude of his party. The latter withdrew from the Liberal Party to create the Liberal Democrat Party. It was declared a defender of individual freedoms, democracy and human rights declared. In economic matters, he defended the freedom of enterprise and private property, recognition of the social function the same as its fundamental limit. It was a member of the Democratic Alliance and on February 2, 1988 signed with other 14 parties the call to vote "No" in the

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to be held in October of that year, making it one of the founders of the

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. On August 30, 1988, he changed its name to

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and initiated proceedings before the Electoral Service to be legally constituted as a political party.

References

{{reflist Liberal parties in Chile Political parties established in 1987 Political parties disestablished in 1988 Defunct political parties in Chile Defunct liberal political parties 1987 establishments in Chile 1988 disestablishments in Chile