National Democratic Front Frente Democrático Nacional | |
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Abbreviation | FREDENA |
Leader | José Luis Bustamante y Rivero |
Founded | 3 June 1944 |
Dissolved | 27 October 1948 |
Ideology | Reformism Christian democracy Social democracy |
Political position | Centre-left to left-wing |
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National Democratic Front (in Spanish: Frente Democrático Nacional) was a political coalition in Peru that was founded in 1944 in Arequipa by Manuel J. Bustamante de la Fuente in order to launch the presidencial campaign of José Luis Bustamante y Rivero for the 1945 general election.[1]
The coalition was largely conformed by the Peruvian Aprista Party (APRA), proscribed at the time to participate electorally.[2] The party ran under the banner of the People’s Party within the coalition, alongside the Peruvian Communist Party and an array of intellectuals rallying around Bustamante.[3]
Upon Manuel Odría’s successful coup d’état in October 1948 against Bustamante’s presidency, the coalition ceased to exist.[4]
120 years after his birth, an X-ray of Manuel Odría, one of the most controversial characters in our history.