Chilean Social Democracy Party

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Chilean Social Democracy Party
Partido Socialdemocracia Chilena
Political positionCentre[1][2] to centre-left
National affiliationUP (1971–72),
CODE (1972–73),
Concertación (1988–94)

The Chilean Social Democracy Party (Spanish: Partido Socialdemocracia Chilena (SDCH), until August 1973 Radical Left Party (Partido Izquierda Radical) was a

Radicals
in 1971.

History

Logo of the Radical Left Party

In its XXV Congress that took place from 31 July to 5 August 1971, the Radical Party confirmed the left-wing line it had taken already in 1967. The congress declared that the Radicals discard

class struggle and historical materialism. Disquieted by the Marxist influence,[3] on 3 August, the Senators Bossay, Baltra, Acuña, Juliet and Aguirre and deputies Ibáñez, Magalhaes, Naudón, Basso, Clavel, Sharpe and Muñoz Barra left the Radical Party. They founded a new party of radicals with more moderate political views, though paradoxically called Partido Izquierda Radical – Party of Radical Left.[4] The new party initially remained part of the Unidad Popular
.

In March 1972, Allende and the Christian Democrats tried to forge a compromise. The Radical Left Party represented the UP coalition in negotiations. The radical minister of justice Manuel Sanhueza held talks with the Christian Democratic Party over regulations of nationalized firms, but ultimately failed, as the socialist minister of economy Pedro Vuskovic boycotted the negotiations and carried out legally dubious expropriations. As a result, the Radical Left quit the UP coalition.[5]

The party then participated in the 1973 election within the centre-right opposition bloc

Social Democrat Radical Party
.

Presidential candidates

The following is a list of the presidential candidates supported by the Party of Social Democracy. (Information gathered from the Archive of Chilean Elections).

References

  1. ISBN 9780521568272
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  2. ^ "Salvador Allende". www.salvador-allende.cl. Archived from the original on 14 February 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  3. ^ A History of Chile, 1808–1994, p. 347, at Google Books
  4. ^ "CRONOLOGIA 1971 La aceleración de los cambios". Archived from the original on 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2010-07-31.
  5. ^ Radicals, Reformers, and Reactionaries: The Prisoner's Dilemma and the Collapse of Democracy in Latin America, p. 112, at Google Books
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