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The Democratic Unification Party (in Spanish: Partido Unificación Democrática) (PUD) is a political party in Honduras. PUD was founded on 29 September 1992 by the merger of four leftist clandestine or semiclandestine political parties, namely Partido para la transformación de Honduras (PTH), Partido Revolucionario Hondureño (PRH), Partido Morazanísta de Liberación Nacional (PMLN) and Partido Renovación Patriótica (PRP). The background of the formation of PUD was the changed political situation in Central America at that period, following the end of the Cold War. This page lists presidents of Honduras. ... José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, also known as Mel Zelaya, (born September 20, 1952) is the President of Honduras since January 27, 2006. ... Elvin Ernesto Santos Ordóñez (b. ... The National Congress (Spanish: Congreso Nacional) is the legislative branch of the government of Honduras. ... Political parties in Honduras Honduras has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties – the PLH and the PNH. It is thus extremely difficulty for anybody to achieve national electoral success under the banner of any other party. ... Elections in Honduras gives information on elections and election results in Honduras. ... The Ley de Lemas (Spanish, Law of Lemmas) is a law dictating a voting system that employs an unusual open-list party-list proportional representation method. ... The Central American nation of Honduras is currently divided into 18 departments (departamentos). ... The second level of territorial subdivisions in Honduras are the municipalities, the first level being the Departments of Honduras. ... Honduras is a member of the United Nations, the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Organization of American States (OAS), the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN), the Central American Integration System (SICA), and the Central American Security Commission (CASQ). ... Information on politics by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Political parties Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain political power within a government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns. ... September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Partido para la transformación de Honduras (Party for the transformation of Honduras), a political party in Honduras. ... Honduran Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Hondureño) was a small clandestine leftist party in Honduras. ... Partido Morazanísta de Liberación Nacional was a leftist party in Honduras. ... Partido Renovación Patriótica (Patriotic Renovation Party), a leftist group in Honduras formed in 1990 as a re-groupment of various leftist tendencies, such as Fuerzas Populares Revolucionarias Lorenzo Zelaya, people from the dissolved Partido Comunista de Honduras and a dissident faction of the social democracy. ... Map of Central America Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. ... For other uses, see Cold War (disambiguation). ...

In Decree No. 189-93 of the National Congress (the Honduran parliament) of 1 October 1993, the state of Honduras legally recognised the PUD. That act was a follow-up of the Esquipulas Accords, by which the Central American governments agreed to give the revolutionary groups in the region possibilities to organize legally and participate in the political process. The National Congress (Spanish: Congreso Nacional) is the legislative branch of the government of Honduras. ... October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... The Esquipulas Peace Agreement was an initiative in the mid-1980s to settle the military conflicts that had plagued Central America for many years, and in some cases (notably Guatemala) for decades. ...

Decree No. 92-94 of the Nacional Election Tribunal of 28 January 1994 gave the PUD recognition as the fifth legally recognized political party in Honduras. January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...

PUD has fought various elections since 1997. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The colours of PUD are red and yellow. Red symbolizes the blood of the martyrs of the struggle and yellow symbolizes the new dawn of Honduras. The banner of PUD is yellow with the letter "UD" in red. The slogan of PUD is UD marca la diferencia ("UD [can be interpreted as usted, you] makes a difference").

PUD defines itself as a patriotic, democratic, popular and revolutionary party. The five pillars of PUD are Ethics, Democracy, Criticism, Proposal and Struggle.

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The maximum authority of PUD is the National Assembly, which elects the Junta Directiva Nacional. In the departments of the country Department Assemblies are held, which each elects a Junta Directiva Departamental, and likewise on municipal level Municipal Assemblies are held which each elects a Junta Directa Municipal. Under the JDMs are the base units of the party, Colectivos de Base. Download high resolution version (960x1280, 224 KB)FUR symbol. ... Download high resolution version (960x1280, 224 KB)FUR symbol. ... The Central American nation of Honduras is currently divided into 18 departments (departamentos). ...

The current president of PUD is Matías Funes.

In the 1997 elections PUD won 23,977 votes (1.21%) in the presidential elections, 41,113 votes (2.16%) in the parliamentary elections, and 34,785 votes (1.77%) in the municipal elections. In total one congressional deputy, one member of PARLACEN (the Central American parliament), one mayor and 21 municipal councillors were elected on behalf of UD. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Central American Parliament, also know by the abbreviation Parlacen (from the Spanish Parlamento Centroamericano) is a political institution devoted to the integration of the Central American countries. ...

In the 2001 elections PUD won 24,075 votes (1.11%) in the presidential elections, 92,818 votes (4.46%) in the parliamentary elections and 48,951 votes (2.26%) in the municipal elections. In total five congressional deputies, one member of PARLACEN and 26 municipal councillors were elected on behalf of UD. 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Central American Parliament, also know by the abbreviation Parlacen (from the Spanish Parlamento Centroamericano) is a political institution devoted to the integration of the Central American countries. ...

In the 27 November 2005 elections, PUD candidate Juan Ángel Almendares Bonilla won 27,731 votes (1.5%) in the presidential elections, an unknown number of votes in the parliamentary elections and an unknown number of votes in the municipal elections. In total five congressional deputies, an unknown number of members of PARLACEN, one mayor and an unknown number of municipal councillors were elected on behalf of UD. November 27 is the 331st day (332nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Central American Parliament, also know by the abbreviation Parlacen (from the Spanish Parlamento Centroamericano) is a political institution devoted to the integration of the Central American countries. ...

Within PUD there are two currents recognized by the National Election Tribunal, Pueblo Unido and Convergencia Popular.

The youth of PUD is called Juventud del Partido Unificación Democrática (JUD). JUD consists of three components, Fuerza Universitaria Revolucionaria (FUR), Federación Nacional de Estudiantes de Secundaria de Honduras (FENAESH) and a movement of Barrio youths.

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• (Russian)Short History of Honduran Leftist/Communist tendency