Union, Progress and Democracy (Spanish: Unión Progreso y Democracia [uˈnjon, pɾoˈɣɾeso i ðemoˈkɾaθja]; officially abbreviated as UPyD [upeiˈðe], although it's occasionally abbreviated as UPYD or UPD [upeˈðe]) is a Spanish political party founded in September 2007. It is a social liberal party which rejects any form of nationalism, especially peripheral nationalism like the separatist Basque and Catalan movements. The party is deeply pro-European and wants the European Union to adopt a federal system without overlap between the European, national and regional governments. Besides, the magenta party wants to replace the State of Autonomies with a symmetric and highly centralized, albeit still federal, system in Spain as well as substituting a more proportional election law for the current on