Confederation of Democracy
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Confederation of Democracy
Confederación de la Democracia |
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| Leader |
Eduardo Frei Montalva Sergio Onofre Jarpa |
| Founded | July 6, 1972 |
| Legalised | October 6, 1972 |
| Dissolved | May 20, 1973 |
| Merger of |
National Party Radical Democracy Christian Democratic Party Radical Left Party National Democratic Party |
| Headquarters | Santiago |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| Colours | Blue |
| Deputies (1973) |
87 / 150
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| Senators (1973) |
30 / 50
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The Confederation of Democracy (Spanish: Confederación de la Democracia, CODE) was an electoral alliance of center-right Chilean political parties formed in July 1972. Its main purpose was to unite all the opposition parties of the Popular Unity government to face the parliamentary elections on March 1973. Its main objective was to optimize the collection of votes and seats, and accomplish the majority of Congress and thus obtain at least two thirds of the deputies.
Between the opposition to the Popular Unity government, there were two opposing views. On the one hand the National Party (Spanish: Partido Nacional, PN) and the Radical Democracy (Spanish: Democracia Radical, DR) who saw the CODE as a way to definitively defeat the parties of the Popular Unity (Spanish: Unidad Popular, UP). The Christian Democratic Party (Spanish: Partido Demócrata Cristiano, PDC), together with the Radical Left Party (Spanish: Partido de Izquierda Radical, PIR) and the National Democratic Party (Spanish: Partido Democrático Nacional, PADENA), constituted for them a way of controlling the UP within the legal framework.
To do so, they took advantage of the opinion of the Electoral Court of June 6, 1972, which allowed the creation of electoral coalitions (or federated or confederate parties according to the legislation) in the elections of the National Congress of March of 1973. This sentence repealed that of 1962 which prohibited general electoral pacts (only in the case of the election of senators since 1960 were allowed pacts, but these were also prohibited with another reform in 1962). In this way, the coalition was officially constituted on 6 July 1972, and its first board was composed of Eric Campaña Barrios (president), Diego Portales Frías (secretary) and Enrique Rodríguez Ballesteros (treasurer).
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