National Party (Chile, 1966)
National Party Partido Nacional | |
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| President (s) | Víctor García Garzena, Sergio Onofre Jarpa, Patricio Phillips, Germán Riesco Zañartu |
| Founded | 11 May 1966 |
| Dissolved | 18 August 1994 |
| Merger of | United Conservative Party, Liberal Party and National Action |
| Merged into | Progressive Union of the Centrist Center |
| Headquarters | Santiago de Chile |
| Newspaper | Tribuna (1971–1973) |
| Paramilitary wing | Rolando Matus Command |
| Ideology | National conservatism Economic liberalism Anti-communism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| National affiliation | Confederation of Democracy (1972–1973), Alianza (1992–1994) |
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The National Party (Spanish: Partido Nacional, PN) was a Chilean political party formed in 1966 by the union of the United Conservative Party, the Liberal Party and the National Action (founded in 1963 by Jorge Prat Echaurren, who had been Minister of Finances in 1954 in Carlos Ibáñez del Campo's cabinet).
The PN represented the right-wing of the Chilean political spectrum, against the centrist Christian Democratic Party and the leftist coalition Popular Unity.
The party supported the Pinochet coup of 11 September 1973 and dissolved itself in the same year.