- FRAP (Chile)
The FRAP (Spanish: "Frente de Acción Popular", Front for Popular Action) was a Chilean left-wing coalition of parties from 1956 to 1969. It presented twice a common candidate,
Salvador Allende , for the 1958 and the 1964 presidential elections. Succeeding to theFRENAP formed the preceding year, the FRAP itself was succeeded by thePopular Unity coalition.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 new coalition, created onFebruary 28 ,1956 , as a platform of movements struggling for an "anti-imperialist , anti-oligarch and anti-feudal program." Apart of the Socialist and the Communist parties, the FRAP included: thePopular Socialist Party (until its merger in 1957 with the PS; thePeople's Democratic Party ("Partido Demócrático del Pueblo"), which merged in 1960 with the PS to form thePADENA (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.See also
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Democratic Front of Chile (its right-wing opponent)
*Presidential Republic Era (1924-1973)
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