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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]
The PN represented the right-wing of the Chileanpolitical spectrum, against the centristChristian Democratic Party and theleftist coalitionPopular Unity.
The party supported thePinochetcoup of 11 September 1973 and dissolved itself in the same year.
The National Party was created on 11 May 1966 through the merger of theUnited Conservative Party, theLiberal Party, andNational Action. The merger aimed to unite the Chilean right into a single force capable of countering the growing influence of centrist and left-wing movements.
The National Party candidateJorge Alessandri lost the1970 presidential election. The party opposed the government ofSalvador Allende and hisPopular Unity coalition. In August 1973, Three years later, in August 1973, amid intensepolitical polarization, the National Party joined forces with theChristian Democrats in Congress to confront the Allende administration. 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]
Following themilitary coup of 11 September 1973, led by GeneralAugusto Pinochet, the National Party expressed support for the coup and voluntarily dissolved itself on 21 September 1973.[3]
In March 1983, former members of the National Party and its supporters formed the Civic Action Committee to reconstruct a unified right-wing party. Later that year, group leaders Carmen Sáenz, Silvia Alessandri, and Alicia Ruiz-Tagle de Ochagavía attempted to reconstitute the National Party itself. Despite these efforts, the Chilean right-wing remained divided; thirteenbackbench MPs joined the National Party under former Senator Patricio Phillips Peñafiel, while twenty deputies and many former leaders and activists joined theNational Union Movement, which later becameNational Renewal (RN). Supporters of the Gremialismo movement joined theIndependent Democratic Union (UDI), and nationalist factions formed theNational Action Movement (MAN), later evolving intoNational Advance.
The PN also participated in the creation of theGroup of Eight but, following poor electoral results, formally 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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