- Unidad Popular
Unidad Popular (UP) (English: "People's Unity") was a coalition of
political parties inChile that stood behind the successful candidacy ofSalvador Allende for the1970 Chilean presidential election .Succeeding to the FRAP left-wing coalition, it comprised most of the Chilean Left: the Socialist Party, the Communist Party, the Radical Party, the Social Democratic Party, and
MAPU ("Movimiento de Acción Popular Unitario").UP's leader,
Salvador Allende , was a Marxist who co-founded Chile's Socialist Party. His slight plurality in the election resulted in his confirmation as president by theNational Congress of Chile . The loose and conditional support from the Christian Democratic Party that made this confirmation possible soon disintegrated, as didcentrism of any viable kind in an atmosphere of increasingpolitical polarization . The Revolutionary Left Movement clashed with the conservative and establishment forces, while armedright-wing elements plotted to destabilize the government with sympathy from theNixon administration . In August1973 the Christian Democrats cooperated with the right-wing National Party in the congressional protest that set the stage for theChilean coup of 1973 , the effective end of the UP government and —for 17 years— of democracy in Chile.See also
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Popular Front (Chile)
*Democratic Alliance (Chile)
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