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Popular Unity (Spanish: Unidad Popular, UP) was a left-wing political alliance in Chile that stood behind the successful candidacy of Salvador Allende for the 1970 Chilean presidential election. History
The Popular Unitary Action Movement or MAPU (Spanish: Movimiento de Acción Popular Unitario) was a small leftist political party in Chile. It was part of the Popular Unity coalition during the government of Salvador Allende. MAPU was repressed during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Between 1973 and 1987, Chilean political parties were prohibited. On October 8, 1973, the members of the Popular Unity were banned and three days later, the rest of the political parties and movements were declared adjourned, [1] and definitively dissolved on March 12, 1977. [2]
Chileans marching in support of Allende. In the 1970 election, Allende ran with the Unidad Popular (UP or Popular Unity) coalition. Succeeding the FRAP left-wing coalition, Unidad Popular comprised most of the Chilean Left: the Socialist Party, the Communist Party, the Radical Party, the Party of the Radical Left (until 1972), the Social Democratic Party, MAPU (Movimiento de Acción Popular ...
Original ballot. Presidential elections were held in Chile on 4 September 1970. Salvador Allende of the Popular Unity alliance won a narrow plurality in a race against independent Jorge Alessandri and Christian Democrat Radomiro Tomic, before having his victory confirmed by a contingent election after the Christian Democrats voted in favour of his candidacy.
29.07 50 −6 National 21.51 34 +1 Radical Democracy 1.94 2 New Radical Left 1.66 1 New Popular Unity (63 seats) Socialist 18.70 28 +13 Communist 16.36 25 +3 Radical 3.69 5 −19 MAPU 2.55 2 New Christian Left 1.15 1 New API 0.83 2 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Senate 25 of the 50 seats in the Senate Party Vote % Seats +/– Confederation of Democracy ...
Unidad Popular may refer to: Popular Unity (Chile) , a left-wing political alliance in Chile that supported Salvador Allende in 1970 Popular Unity (Spain) , a left-wing political alliance in Spain founded in 2015
The 1973 Chilean coup d'état (Spanish: Golpe de Estado en Chile de 1973) was a military overthrow of the democratic socialist president of Chile Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity coalition government.