People's Coalition (Spain)
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The People's Coalition (Spanish: Coalición Popular) was a Spanish political coalition comprising national and regional right-wing parties to contest various general, regional and municipal elections between 1983 and 1987.
History
The coalition precedents date back to the 1982 general election, when the "People's Coalition" had not yet been formalized and the force was known simply as AP–PDP, using the initials of the political parties that had formed it: the People's Alliance (AP) and the People's Democratic Party (PDP). Both parties joined to contest together the October 1982 general election, for which both of them signed a coalition agreement on 13 September 1982 jointly with regionalist parties Navarrese People's Union (UPN), Regionalist Aragonese Party (PAR) and Valencian Union (UV), as well as with the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) in the Basque Country.[1][2]
The first time that the term People's Coalition was coined was during the first months of 1983, ahead of the
After the 1986 election, the PDP left the coalition to contest the
Member parties
Nationwide components:
- People's Alliance (AP)
- People's Democratic Party (PDP) (until 1986)
- Liberal Union (UL) (1983–84)
- Liberal Party (PL) (1983–87)
Regional components:
- Aragon: Regionalist Aragonese Party (PAR) (until 1983)
- Galicia: Centrists of Galicia (CdG) (from 1985)
- Navarre: Navarrese People's Union (UPN)
- Valencian Community: Valencian Union (UV) (until 1983)
Electoral performance
Cortes Generales | |||||||||
Election | Congress | Senate | Leading candidate | Status in legislature | |||||
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Votes | % | # | Seats | +/– | Seats | +/– | |||
1982[b] | 5,548,107 | 26.36% | 2nd | 107 / 350
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91[c] | 54 / 208
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51[b] | Manuel Fraga | Opposition |
1986 | 5,247,677 | 25.97% | 2nd | 105 / 350
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2 | 63 / 208
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9 | Manuel Fraga | Opposition |
Notes
- ^ a b As People's Alliance–People's Democratic Party
- ^ a b c d As People's Coalition
- Regionalist Aragonese Party and Union of the Democratic Centre in the Basque Country in the 1979 general election.
References
- ^ "AP and PDP firmaron el acuerdo de coalición". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 1982-09-14. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
- ^ "El PDP formará un subgrupo dentro del bloque parlamentario de AP". ABC (in Spanish). 1982-09-14. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
- ^ "Formado un comité coordinador de los partidos coaligados con AP". El País (in Spanish). 1983-03-03. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
- ^ "El PDP consuma la ruptura de Coalición Popular al inscribir a sus parlamentarios en el Grupo Mixto". El País (in Spanish). 1986-07-15. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
- ^ "Alianza Popular anuncia la ruptura de los pactos políticos y electorales con el PDP de Óscar Alzaga". El País (in Spanish). 1986-07-22. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
- ^ "Los parlamentarios del Partido Liberal pedirán mañana su paso al Grupo Mixto". El País (in Spanish). 1987-01-18. Retrieved 2016-10-12.