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, for the

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and the 1964 presidential elections. Succeeding to the FRENAP formed the preceding year, the FRAP itself was succeeded by the Popular Unity coalition.

Composition of the coalition

The FRAP succeeded to the FRENAP (''Frente Nacional del Pueblo'', People's National Front), formed the following year by a coalition of the

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(PS) and the

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(PCCh). The new coalition, created on February 28, 1956, as a platform of movements struggling for an "

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, anti- oligarch and anti-feudal program." Apart from the Socialist and the Communist parties, the FRAP included: the Popular Socialist Party (until its merger in 1957 with the PS; the

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(''Partido Democrático del Pueblo''), which merged in 1960 with the PS to form the

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(which in turn withdrew itself from the FRAP coalition in 1965); the ''

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'' (National Vanguard of the People), which had been created in 1958 from a merger of minor groups such as the Labour Party (1953) and others; and the

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, founded in 1965.

Strategy

Despite their alliances, tensions separated the Socialists and the Communists. For the first one, the coalition was a "Workers' Front", formed exclusively of

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' parties struggling to defend their interests, while for the latter, it was rather a "National Liberation Front," that is a legal means to accede to power through elections, in alliance with "

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parties" such as the Radical Party and the

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who would united in a common national emancipation program and social and political democratization program.

Composition of the coalition

Strategy

See also