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345:(LI). Suarez was the LI's president from 1988 to 1991. On March 25, 1995, the Centrist Union (UC) was born as a federation consisting of the CDS and some liberal and green groups. Subsequently, from November 1995, the party was called UC-CDS. In October 2002, the party reverted to its original name, CDS. A party congress held in 2005 decided, under the presidency of
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in the populace, and his advocacy of a greater role for the state in providing social services and in ensuring a more equitable distribution of income struck a responsive chord among the workers, who were growing increasingly impatient with
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325:(PSOE) for not fulfilling its 1982 election promises, had advocated a more independent foreign policy, and had called for economic measures that would improve the lot of the poor. This strategy enabled him to draw some votes from those who had become disillusioned with the PSOE.
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500:3rd
497:9.2
490:1986
446:6th
443:2.9
436:1982
430:+/–
424:+/–
406:Gov.
87:2012
613:14
582:No
533:No
515:17
484:No
254:in
245:CDS
167:to
1407::
1393:.
1295:^
1202:^
1117:^
1083:0
1049:0
1015:0
979:5
945:2
909:—
874:#
871:%
838:0
823:0
786:0
771:0
732:0
717:0
680:0
665:0
628:1
579:2
564:5
530:3
476:0
461:2
418:#
415:%
285:.
243:,
239::
85:c.
1397:.
1323:.
1196:.
235:(
75:)
20:)
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