{{Infobox political party | colorcode = gold | name = Liberal-Republican Union | native_name = Unión Liberal-Republicana | logo = | foundation = December 1987 | dissolution = 30 August 1988 | headquarters = [[Santiago, Chile]] | predecessor = [[Liberal Party (Chile, 1983)|Liberal]] and [[Republican Party (Chile, 1982)|Republican]] parties | merged = [[Liberal Party (Chile, 1988)|Liberal Party]] | ideology = [[Liberalism]]<br />[[Social liberalism]] | position = [[Centrism|Centre]] to [[centre-right]] | country = Chile }} The '''Liberal-Republican Union''' ({{langx|es|Unión Liberal-Republicana}}, '''ULR''') was a Chilean [[right-wing]] [[political party]] founded in December 1987 from the merger of the [[Liberal Party (Chile, 1983)|Liberal]] and [[Republican Party (Chile, 1982)|Republican]] parties. Its president was [[Hugo Zepeda Barrios]] and its secretary general was Gabriel Leon Echaíz.<ref name=ortega>{{cite web |url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/archivos2/pdfs/mc0023295.pdf |title=Historia de una alianza política: el partido Socialista de Chile y el partido Demócrata Cristiano: 1973-1988 |author=Eugenio Ortega Frei |date=1992 |accessdate=20 November 2014 |work=Memoria Chilena |language=Spanish}}</ref>
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 of Chile|Liberal Democrat Party]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last = Friedmann |first = Reinhard |title = La Política Chilena de la A a la Z |year= 1988 |publisher = Melquíades |location = Santiago, Chile |language=Spanish}}</ref>
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.<ref name=":0"/>
It was a member of the [[Democratic Alliance (Chile, 1983)|Democratic Alliance]] and on February 2, 1988, signed with other 14 parties the call to vote "No" in the [[1988 Chilean national plebiscite|plebiscite]] to be held in October of that year, making it one of the founders of the [[Concertación|Coalition of Parties for Democracy]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-03-21-me-879-story.html |title=Beating Pinochet at His Own Game : By Mobilizing Now, Chileans Can Say 'No' at Plebiscite |date=21 March 1988 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=2 August 2016}}</ref><ref name=ortega/><ref name=":0"/><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.emol.com/especiales/concertacion/historia.htm |title=1988: Concertación de Partidos por el NO |work=EMOL |accessdate=6 October 2013 |language=Spanish}}</ref>
On August 30, 1988, he changed its name to [[Liberal Party (Chile, 1988)|Liberal Party]] and initiated proceedings before the Electoral Service to be legally constituted as a political party.<ref name=":0"/><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.leychile.cl/Navegar?idNorma=132366 |title = EXTRACTO DE RESOLUCION EXENTA NO. 1.096, DE 1988 |accessdate = 24 July 2016 |author = Servicio Electoral de Chile |publisher = leychile.cl |language=Spanish}}</ref>
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