People's Coalition (Spain)

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People's Coalition Coalición Popular
Leader	Manuel Fraga
Founded	13 September 1982[n 1] 2 March 1983
Dissolved	19 January 1987
Headquarters	Madrid
Ideology	Conservatism Christian democracy
Political position	Centre-right
Politics of Spain Political parties Elections

The People'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.

Contents

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  1 History
  


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  2 Member parties
  


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  3 Electoral performance
  
  
  
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    3.1 Congress of Deputies
    
  
  
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    3.2 Senate
    
  
  
  
  


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  4 Footnotes
  


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  5 References
  

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 People's Alliance (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 coalition agreement on 13 September 1982 jointly with regionalist parties Navarrese People's Union (UPN), Regionalist Aragonese Party (PAR) and Valencian Union (UV), as well as with the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) in the Basque Country.^[1][2]

The first time that the term People's Coalition was coined was during the first months of 1983, ahead of the municipal and regional 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.^[3]

After the 1986 election, the PDP left the coalition to contest the regional and municipal elections of 1987 on its own, with its deputies in the Congress of Deputies leaving 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 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 Cantabria, Galicia and the Balearic Islands lasted 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

Nationwide components:

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  People's Alliance (AP)


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  People's Democratic Party (PDP) (until 1986)
  


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  Liberal Union (UL) (1983–84)
  


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  Liberal Party (PL) (1983–87)
  

Regional components:

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  Aragon: Regionalist Aragonese Party (PAR) (until 1983)
  


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  Galicia: Centrists of Galicia (CdG) (from 1985)
  


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  Navarre: Navarrese People's Union (UPN)


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  Valencian Community: Valencian Union (UV) (until 1983)
  

Electoral performance

Congress of Deputies

Congress of Deputies
Election	Seats	Vote	%	Status	Leader
1982	107 / 350	5,548,107 (#2)	26.36	Opposition	Manuel Fraga
1986	105 / 350	5,247,677 (#2)	25.97	Opposition	Manuel Fraga

Senate

Senate
Election	Seats	Leader
1982	54 / 208	Manuel Fraga
1986	63 / 208	Manuel Fraga

Footnotes

1. 
   ^ as AP–PDP coalition
   

References

1. 
   ^ "AP and PDP firmaron el acuerdo de coalición". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 1982-09-14. Retrieved 2016-03-14..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
   


2. 
   ^ "El PDP formará un subgrupo dentro del bloque parlamentario de AP". ABC (in Spanish). 1982-09-14. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
   


3. 
   ^ "Formado un comité coordinador de los partidos coaligados con AP". El País (in Spanish). 1983-03-03. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
   


4. 
   ^ "El PDP consuma la ruptura de Coalición Popular al inscribir a sus parlamentarios en el Grupo Mixto". El País (in Spanish). 1986-07-15. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
   


5. 
   ^ "Alianza Popular anuncia la ruptura de los pactos políticos y electorales con el PDP de Óscar Alzaga". El País (in Spanish). 1986-07-22. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
   


6. 
   ^ "Los parlamentarios del Partido Liberal pedirán mañana su paso al Grupo Mixto". El País (in Spanish). 1987-01-18. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
   

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