FRAP (Chile) - Citizendia

The FRAP (Spanish: Frente de Acción Popular, Front for Popular Action) was a Chilean left-wing coalition of parties from 1956 to 1969. The Politics of Chile takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic Republic, whereby the President It presented twice a common candidate, Salvador Allende, for the 1958 and the 1964 presidential elections. Salvador Isabelino Allende Gossens (June 26 1908 – September 11 1973 was President of Chile from November 1970 until his death during the coup d'état of A presidential election was held in Chile on September 4 1958. A presidential election was held in Chile on September 4, 1964. Succeeding to the FRENAP formed the preceding year, the FRAP itself was succeeded by the Popular Unity coalition. Unidad Popular ( UP) ( English: "People's Unity" was a coalition of Political parties in Chile that stood behind the successful candidacy

Composition of the coalition

The FRAP succeeded to the FRENAP (Frente Nacional del Pueblo, People's National Front), formed the following year by a coalition of the Socialist Party (PS) and the Communist Party (PCC). The Socialist Party of Chile (Spanish Partido Socialista de Chile or PS is part of the ruling Coalition of Parties for Democracy coalition The Communist Party of Chile (Partido Comunista de Chile is a Chilean political party that advocates Communism. The new coalition, created on February 28, 1956, as a platform of movements struggling for an "anti-imperialist, anti-oligarch and anti-feudal program. Events 202 BC - coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty 's rule Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Anti-imperialism, strictly speaking is a term that may be applied to or movement opposed to some form of Imperialism. Oligarchy' ( Greek, Oligarkhía) is a Form of government where Political power effectively rests with a small elite segment " Apart of the Socialist and the Communist parties, the FRAP included: the Popular Socialist Party (until its merger in 1957 with the PS; the People's Democratic Party (Partido Demócrático del Pueblo), which merged in 1960 with the PS to form the PADENA (which in turn withdrew itself from the FRAP coalition in 1965); the Vanguardia Nacional del Pueblo (National Vanguard of the People), which had been created in 1958 from a merger of minor groups such as the Labour Party (1953) and others; and the Social Democracy, founded in 1965.

Strategy

Despite their alliances, tensions separated the Socialists and the Communists. For the first one, the coalition was a "Labour Front", formed exclusively of working classes' parties struggling to defend their interests, while for the latter, it was rather a "National Liberation Front," that is a legal means to accede to power through elections, in alliance with "bourgeois parties" such as the Radical Party and the Christian Democrat Party who would united in a common national emancipation program and social and political democratization program. Working class is a term used in academic Sociology and in ordinary conversation to describe depending on context and speaker those employed in specific fields or types The Radical Party ( Partido Radical) of Chile was a political party formed in 1863 by some dissatisfied liberals. The Christian Democratic Party of Chile ( Partido Demócrata Cristiano de Chile) is a Political party in Chile and governs as part of the Coalition

Composition of the coalition

Strategy

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