The National Democratic Agreement ( Spanish : Acuerdo Democrático Nacional , ADENA ) was a Chilean political coalition existing between 1984 and 1985 that brought together parties, movements and supporters of the military dictatorship led by Augusto Pinochet .
8-724: In the context of political openness fostered by the Minister of the Interior, Sergio Onofre Jarpa , Government-supporter parties decided to join as a counterpart to the emergence of opposition forces such as the Democratic Alliance (centre-left) and the People's Democratic Movement (revolutionary left). Originally 8 parties organised -hence its original name, the Group of Eight ( Grupo de los Ocho ), characterized by their heterogeneity -they range from
16-494: A diplomat following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état , serving as a delegate to the United Nations and before becoming ambassador to Colombia (1976-1978) and then Argentina (1978-1983). Jarpa was appointed Minister of the Interior in 1983 with special orders to open dialogue with the opposition, which had organised under the name Democratic Alliance. This policy of appeasement was quickly abandoned by Pinochet however. He held
24-642: The 1950s, initially with the youth movement of the Agrarian Labor Party before becoming involved in the National Action with Jorge Prat . He was instrumental in the formation of the National Party in 1966 and served as leader of the opposition to the left-wing government and, from 1971, editor of the anti-socialist journal Tribuna . Elected to the Senate of Chile in the 1973 election , Jarpa became
32-691: The ADENA as «a grouping of centre-right, the only party that has submitted to the government some motions designed to expedite the return to democracy through a secure and continuous process peacefully». On September 28, 1984 the Social Democratic Workers Movement ( Movimiento Obrero Socialdemócrata ) and a splinter group of the PADENA led by Apollonides Parra joined the ADENA. The categorical rejection of Pinochet to early elections and its proposed law on political parties -rejected by all sectors- led to
40-584: The National Democratic Agreement, officially constituted on 2 July with the aim of proposing the necessary reforms to allow for a peaceful transition to democracy. They chose Juan de Dios Carmona as chief of their executive committee. ADENA proposals -also made by the Group of Eight in May of that same year- consisted of: It had its own newspaper: La Contra , which circulated with just a single trial edition on 5 September 1984. This publication described
48-572: The failure of the ADENA, which was dissolved on June 22, 1985, after the authorities lifted the state of siege in the country. Sergio Onofre Jarpa Sergio Onofre Jarpa Reyes (8 March 1921 – 19 April 2020) was a Chilean right-wing politician who served as one of the founders of the National Renewal (Chile) Party. Coming from a rural background, he studied agriculture at the University of Chile . He first became involved in politics in
56-499: The nationalist right to democratic socialism- but shared its legitimacy to existing institutions after the enactment of the 1980 Constitution and the defense of the coup of 1973 . These parties and movements were: As expected, the lack of cohesion and consensus within the conglomerate led to the UDI, the PADENA and PN withdraw the coalition in July 1984. The remaining five members decided to meet in
64-588: The post until 1985. He formed his own political movement, the National Labour Front ( Frente Nacional del Trabajo ), in 1985 and this group was one of the three that formed National Renewal two years later. He returned to the Senate as a representative of this new party in 1990. Alongside his political career Jarpa was a noted author on socio-political topics and he was awarded the Premio al Mérito Geopolítico by
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