CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 7, 1970
• Content Type: REPORT

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DIRECTORATE OF
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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7 October 1970
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CHILE: The swing of most Christian Democrats to
Allende virtually ensures his selection as president.
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CHILE: The swing of most Christian Democrats
to vador Allende virtually ensures-his selection
as president in the congressional runoff on 24 Oc-
tober.
On Monday, the majority of the national con-
gress of the governing Christian Democratic Party
(PDC) voted to support Allende. The group now in
control of the party executive carried through a
resolution that requires only "agreement" by Al-
lende to a constitutional reform bill to be worked
out with his leftist Popular Unity (UP) coalition.
Significantly, most of the 75 Christian Democratic
legislators voted for the motion.
Anti-Allende forces in the party tried to hold
off a decision on whether to declare support for
Allende until a PDC-authored bill containing guar-
antees of democratic freedoms could be passed by
both houses of Congress and accepted formally by
Allende. These forces included leaders of the
party's grass roots--labor, peasant,.slum-dweller,
and women's groups. President Frei did not use his
prestige to help them, although he opposes Allende.
The losers are likely to pay dearly, both politi-
cally and personally, for their hard fight. The
PDC, Chile's largest party and the only possible
center of effective political opposition to Allende,
seems irrevocably divided.
Until the eve of the PDC congress, Allende's
initial refusal to discuss demands for guarantees
had increased pressure within the party against
supporting him. The UP's vague agreement on 2 Oc-
tober to negotiate swung the majority of the PDC
congress, however.
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