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National Party Partido Nacional | |
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| President (s) | Víctor García Garzena, Sergio Onofre Jarpa, Patricio Phillips, Germán Riesco Zañartu |
| Founded | 11 May 1966 |
| Dissolved | 18 August 1994 |
| Merger of | United Conservative Party,Liberal Party andNational Action |
| Merged into | Progressive Union of the Centrist Center |
| Headquarters | Santiago de Chile |
| Newspaper | Tribuna (1971–1973) |
| Paramilitary wing | Rolando Matus Command |
| Ideology | National conservatism Economic liberalism Anti-communism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| National affiliation | Confederation of Democracy (1972–1973), Alianza (1992–1994) |
| Party flag | |
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TheNational Party (Spanish:Partido Nacional,PN) was a Chileanpolitical party formed in 1966 by the union of theUnited Conservative Party, theLiberal Party and theNational Action (founded in 1963 byJorge Prat Echaurren, who had been Minister of Finances in 1954 inCarlos Ibáñez del Campo's cabinet).[1]
It represented the right-wing of the Chileanpolitical spectrum, against the centristChristian Democratic Party and theleftist coalitionPopular Unity. Its candidateJorge Alessandri lost the1970 presidential election. Three years later, in August 1973, after escalatingpolitical polarization, the Christian Democrats joined with the National Party in the same legislature against Allende. The following month, newly appointed chief of staff GeneralAugusto Pinochet led the1973 military coup against Allende, after which the National Party voluntarily dissolved itself on 21 September 1973.[2]
The party supported the coup of 11 September 1973 and dissolved itself in the same year.
In March 1983 former members of the National Party and its supporters formed the Civic Action Committee in order to reconstruct a unified party of the right. This process was interrupted in October 1983 when group leaders Carmen Sáenz, Silvia Alessandri and Alicia Ruiz-Tagle de Ochagavía attempted to reconstruct the National Party proper. However, despite attempts to create a unified party of the right as existed before 1973, this was not possible. Thirteenbackbench MPs joined the National Party, presided over by former Senator Patricio Phillips Peñafiel. However, 20 deputies and a large number of leaders and activists of yesteryear joined theNational Union Movement, a party that four years later became theNational Renewal (RN), while the people linked to the Gremialismo movement founded theIndependent Democratic Union (UDI) andnationalist movements formed the MAN (National Action Movement) party that later became theNational Advance. The PN participated in the creation of the Group of Eight, however, after poor electoral showings, it disbanded during thetransition to democracy, in 1994.
The following is a list of the presidential candidates supported by the National Party. (Information gathered from theArchive of Chilean Elections).
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