Conservative Party (Chile)
The Partido Conservador was founded in 1836. The party took the policy objectives and interests of the Chilean Catholicism and was for many decades extremely influential. The political profile was this party in the 19th century in the clashes with the secular liberals. In the 20th century, the debates were added to the anticlerical Radical Party. The political debates revolved around issues such as religious instruction in schools, separation of church and state, etc. The Partido Conservador existed until 1949, when he split in the Partido Conservador Tradicional and the Partido Social Cristiano Conservador. The latter merged in with the Falange Nacional (initially an internal youth organization and in 1938, a spin-off of the Partido Conservador ) and formed the Christian Democratic Party, the Partido Demócrata Cristiano de Chile (PDC). The Partido Conservador Tradicional was weakened until 1953, when he formed the Partido Unido Conservador together with other parties. This in turn merged in with the Partido Liberal ( Liberal Party ), the historical political opponents of the Partido Conservador to form the Partido Nacional in 1966. Politicians of this party occurred after the approval of political parties in the 1980s in the start-up Renovación Nacional ( RN) and Unión Demócrata Independiente (UDI ). RN is a rather liberal party, while UDI Pinochetfreundlich more conservative, and up to the 1990s.
Thus have three still existing parties in Chile direct roots in the old Partido Conservador: PDC, RN and UDI. Leading politicians of other parties ( presidential candidate in 1970 ) began her career in this party, such as the Christian Democrat President Eduardo Frei Montalva, Radomiro Tomic, Bernardo Leighton (Minister 1964-1970 ) and others Due to this fact, these non-existent party is often treated in the literature.