title: Spanish Social Democratic Union
text: # Spanish Social Democratic Union
  
  Spanish Social Democratic Union (Spanish: Unión Social Demócrata Española; USDE) was a social-liberal political party in Spain that opposed the Francoist State and advocated a liberal democracy in Spain. The USDE was founded in 1974 by Dionisio Ridruejo.
  
  ## History
  
  It was the successor of the Social Party of Democratic Action founded in 1957. The USDE had social-Catholic, liberal and social-democratic internal currents.
  
  In 1975 the USDE joined the Democratic Convergence Platform. Fernando Chueca Goitia, one of the founders of USDE, left the party in July 1976 to join the People's Democratic Party, where he was elected president in December of that year.
  
  