People's Coalition (Spain)

People's Coalition Coalición Popular
Leader	Manuel Fraga
Founded	September 13, 1982 (1982-09-13)
Dissolved	January 20, 1989 (1989-01-20)
Headquarters	Madrid
Ideology	Conservatism Christian democracy
Political position	Center-right
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The People's Coalition (Spanish: Coalición Popular) was a Spanish political coalition comprising national and regional right-wing parties between 1983 and 1989.

History

It had its precedent in the AP-PDP coalition for the 1982 general election, and lasted until after the 1986 general election, when the PDP went its separate way.

Its main components were:

• People's Alliance (AP)
• People's Democratic Party (PDP)
• Liberal Union (UL) (1983–84) / Liberal Party (PL) (1984–86)

Among its notable regional components were:

• Galicia: Centrists of Galicia (CdG)
• Navarre: Navarrese People's Union (UPN)
• Valencian Community: Valencian Union (UV) (1983)

After the 1986 elections, the People's Democratic Party leaves the coalition to attend alone the regional and local elections of 1987, by registration of their elected representatives in the Joint Group of the Congress of Deputies on 15 July 1986. After that, in 1988 it was renamed as Christian Democracy, led by Javier Rupérez, and merged into the Popular Party in 1989, like Popular Alliance, the Liberal Party and Centrists of Galicia. The pact between the AP and PDP was formally scrapped in July 21, 1986, although the program agreements with the governments of Cantabria, Galicia and the Balearic Islands remained until 1989.

Electoral performance

Cortes Generales

Election	Leader	Votes	%	#	Congress	Senate	Gov't	Notes
1986	Manuel Fraga	5,247,677	25.97	2nd	105 / 350	63 / 208		Main opposition