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The Spanish Patriotic Union UPE (in Spanish: Unión Patriótica Española) was the political party created from above by Spanish dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera conceived as a support to his conservative dictatorship and integrating political catholicism technocrats and the business-owning classes.After the establishment of the Second Spanish Republic the party changed its name to Unión Monarquista (Monarchist Union). It was merged into the Falange in 1936.