Allende, el allendismo y los partidos: El Frente de Acción Popular ante las elecciones presidenciales de 1958

Abstract

By analyzing informative and partisan press, party documents, books of memories and electoral statistics, we will analyze the relationship established between Salvador Allende and the Communist and Socialist parties in the 1958's presidential elections. In this regard, we will argue that this election was the event which revealed the emergence of the Allendism, as a political force capable of mobilizing an electorate greater than the one of the leftist political parties and generate political loyalties within them.