The People's Coalition () 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

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(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

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on 13 September 1982 jointly with regionalist parties

Navarrese People's Union The Navarrese People's Union (; ), abbreviated to UPN, is a regional Conservatism, conservative political party in Navarre, Spain. Until 2008, it was a fraternal party of the People's Party (Spain), People's Party (PP), acting as the latter's Nava ...

(UPN),

Regionalist Aragonese Party The Aragonese Party (, PAR) is a political party which advocates the interests of Aragon within Spain. The party was founded in 1978 under the name Aragonese Regionalist Party, but changed its name in 1990, keeping the initials ''PAR''. The founde ...

(PAR) and

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(UV), as well as with the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) in the Basque Country. The first time that the term ''People's Coalition'' was coined was during the first months of 1983, ahead of the

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and

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elections of 8 May 1983. Coalition members AP and PDP, as well as the Liberal Union (UL) and regionalists UPN, PAR and UV, formed a coordinating committee of parties on 2 March of that year. After the 1986 election, the PDP left the coalition to contest the

and

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elections of 1987 on its own, with its deputies in the

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leaving the People's Group and joining the Mixed Group on 15 July 1986. After that, in 1988 it was renamed as Christian Democracy, led by Javier Rupérez, and merged into the People'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 of

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, Galicia and the

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lasted until 1989. 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.

Member parties

Nationwide components: *

(AP) * People's Democratic Party (PDP) * Liberal Union (UL) *

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(PL) Regional components: *

Aragon Aragon ( , ; Spanish and ; ) is an autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon. In northeastern Spain, the Aragonese autonomous community comprises three provinces of Spain, ...

(PAR) * Galicia:

Centrists of Galicia Centrists of Galicia (Spanish: ''Centristas de Galicia'', CdG) was a political party in Galicia, based mainly in the province of Ourense between 1985 and 1991. It emerged as a split from Galician Coalition, bringing together many provincial may ...

(CdG) *

Navarre Navarre ( ; ; ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre, is a landlocked foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Autonomous Community, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and New Aquitaine in France. ...

(UPN) *

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(UV)

Electoral performance

Cortes Generales

Notes

References

{{reflist Defunct political party alliances in Spain 1983 establishments in Spain 1987 disestablishments in Spain