Extremaduran Regional Action

{{Expand Spanish|topic=hist|date=January 2020|Acción Regional Extremeña}}

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| name = Extremaduran Regional Action

| native_name = Acción Regional Extremeña

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| secretary_general = Enrique Sánchez de León

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| foundation = {{Start date|df=yes|1976|11|07}}

| dissolution = {{End date|df=yes|1978|10}}

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| merged = Union of the Democratic Centre

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| ideology = Regionalism

| position = Centre-right

| national = UCD

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The Extremaduran Regional Action ({{langx|es|Acción Regional Extremeña}}; AREX) was a Spanish political party founded on 7 November 1976 as the first regionalist party in Extremadura.{{cite news |date=9 November 1976 |title=Nace Acción Regional Extremeña |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1976/11/09/espana/216342015_850215.html |language=Spanish |newspaper=El País |access-date=6 January 2020}}{{cite news |date=12 March 1977 |title=Sólo para extremeños |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1977/03/12/espana/226969238_850215.html |language=Spanish |newspaper=El País |access-date=6 January 2020}} Enrique Sánchez de León was the party's secretary-general from 26 March 1977.{{cite news |date=27 March 1977 |title=Sánchez de León, elegido secretario de Acción Regional Extremeña |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1977/03/27/espana/228265215_850215.html |language=Spanish |newspaper=El País |access-date=6 January 2020}} AREX joined the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) electoral alliance ahead of the 1977 Spanish general election,{{cite news |date=20 April 1977 |title=Suárez recibió al partido de Sánchez de León |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1977/04/20/espana/230335203_850215.html |language=Spanish |newspaper=El País |access-date=6 January 2020}}{{cite news |date=28 June 1977 |title=De la unificación de UCD sólo habrá una "declaración de intención" |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1977/06/28/espana/236296802_850215.html |language=Spanish |newspaper=El País |access-date=6 January 2020}} gaining 4 seats in the Congress of Deputies.{{cite web |url=http://www.historiaelectoral.com/ucd.html |title=Union of the Democratic Centre, Democratic and Social Centre |language=Spanish |website=historiaelectoral.com |publisher=Electoral History |accessdate=6 January 2020}} The party would be eventually merged into the UCD upon the party's constitution as a unitary party.{{cite news |date=18 October 1978 |title=La compleja transformación de una coalición en un partido unificado |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1978/10/18/espana/277513205_850215.html |language=Spanish |newspaper=El País |access-date=6 January 2020}}

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