People's Coalition (Spain)
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People's Coalition Coalición Popular | |
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| Leader | Manuel Fraga |
| Founded | 13 September 1982[a] 2 March 1983[b] |
| Dissolved | 19 January 1987 |
| Preceded by | Democratic Coalition |
| Headquarters | Madrid |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Centre-right |
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ThePeople'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
[edit]The coalition precedents date back to the1982 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: thePeople's Alliance(AP) and thePeople's Democratic Party(PDP). Both parties joined to contest together the October 1982 general election, for which both of them signed acoalition agreementon 13 September 1982 jointly with regionalist partiesNavarrese People's Union(UPN),Regionalist Aragonese Party(PAR) andValencian Union(UV), as well as with theUnion of the Democratic Centre(UCD) in theBasque Country.[1][2]
The first time that the termPeople's Coalitionwas coined was during the first months of 1983, ahead of themunicipalandregionalelections of 8 May 1983. Coalition members AP and PDP, as well as theLiberal Union(UL) and regionalists UPN, PAR and UV, formed a coordinating committee of parties on 2 March of that year.[3]
After the 1986 election, the PDP left the coalition to contest theregionalandlocalelections of 1987 on its own, with its deputies in theCongress of Deputiesleaving the People's Group and joining the Mixed Group on 15 July 1986.[4]After that, in 1988 it was renamed as Christian Democracy, led by Javier Rupérez, and merged into thePeople's Party(PP) in 1989, like AP, PL and CdG. The pact between AP and PDP was formally scrapped in 21 July 1986, although the agreements for the regional the governments ofCantabria,Galiciaand theBalearic Islandslasted until 1989.[5]On 19 January 1987, PL deputies left the People's Group in Congress and moved to the Mixed Group, thus putting an end to the People's Coalition.[6]
Member parties
[edit]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
[edit]| 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]
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54 / 208
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51[b]
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Manuel Fraga | Opposition |
| 1986 | 5,247,677 | 25.97% | 2nd | 105 / 350
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 2
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63 / 208
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9
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Manuel Fraga | Opposition |
Notes
[edit]- ^abAs People's Alliance–People's Democratic Party
- ^abcdAs People's Coalition
- ^Compared to the combined totals ofDemocratic Coalition,Navarrese People's Union,Regionalist Aragonese PartyandUnion of the Democratic Centrein the Basque Country in the1979 general election.
References
[edit]- ^"AP and PDP firmaron el acuerdo de coalición".La Vanguardia(in Spanish). 1982-09-14.Retrieved2016-03-14.
- ^"El PDP formará un subgrupo dentro del bloque parlamentario de AP".ABC(in Spanish). 1982-09-14.Retrieved2016-03-14.
- ^"Formado un comité coordinador de los partidos coaligados con AP".El País(in Spanish). 1983-03-03.Retrieved2016-10-12.
- ^"El PDP consuma la ruptura de Coalición Popular al inscribir a sus parlamentarios en el Grupo Mixto".El País(in Spanish). 1986-07-15.Retrieved2016-03-14.
- ^"Alianza Popular anuncia la ruptura de los pactos políticos y electorales con el PDP de Óscar Alzaga".El País(in Spanish). 1986-07-22.Retrieved2016-03-14.
- ^"Los parlamentarios del Partido Liberal pedirán mañana su paso al Grupo Mixto".El País(in Spanish). 1987-01-18.Retrieved2016-10-12.