National Advance ( es, Avanzada Nacional, AN) was a

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ideology who supported the

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led by

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. They had party legal existence between January 1988 and July 1991. It was founded on 11 September 1983 by former members of

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and civilian supporters of the dictatorship. The party constitution was signed on April 15, 1987, the Electoral Service ordered his publication in the official Journal on 29 May 1987. Finally, by resolution O-56 of 29 January 1988, the Electoral Service officially signed up the party. This party held various positions during the military regime, including more than 70 municipalities. However, the top-level positions were occupied by representatives of the neoliberal right (next to National Renewal and the

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and close to the economic right of employers), who always tried to displace the nationalist right because it was not in agreement with the neoliberal economic policies of the

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(preferably militants in the UDI and RN to a lesser extent). In addition, nationalists were considered statist, which clashed sharply with the neoliberals. On the political side there were also a number of differences; even many historians point out that if Pinochet had followed the postulates of the nationalists, they would have had more public support as the AN was representative of the political right and not economic. In the 1988 plebiscite supported the Yes option. In late 1988 it created the short-lived Democratic Confederation (''Confederación Democrática'') with the National Party (a faction that supported Pinochet), the

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, the Social Democrat Party, the

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, the Democratic Party of Chile, the Free Democratic Centre and the Civic Committees. The confederation disappeared in 1989 during negotiations for parliamentary candidates that year. In the

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, the party conducted the electoral pact "Alliance of Centre" with another ruling party,

, in spite of which failed to elect deputies and senators. By the election results the party entered the grounds for cancellation of its legal existence, but this was corrected with the merger with its coalition partners and other smaller parties. On May 7, 1990 the National Advance merged with the Radical Democracy and the National Party to form the National Democracy of Centre, and the registry of the party was void on June 17 of the same year. National Democracy of Centre was later renamed as National Party (like one of their predecessors) on December 3, 1991.

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{{Reflist Defunct political parties in Chile Political parties established in 1984 Political parties disestablished in 1990 1984 establishments in Chile 1990 disestablishments in Chile Nationalist parties in Chile