La Democracia Cristiana y la modernización de Acción Nacional (1957-1965)

• Autores: Soledad Loaeza
• Localización: Historia y grafía, ISSN 1405-0927, Nº. 14, 2000, págs. 147-182
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Christian Democracy and the modernization of Acción Nacional (1957-1965)
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  • Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) is analyzed as the result of an eminently Catholic political position that emerged due to the anticlerical actions that took place after the Revolution in 1910. This article is the result of a research that intends to describe the role of this political group during the fifties and its evolution since the Catholic Church's modernization of the sixties. This period is divided in two moments: confessionalization (1949-1962) and Catholic hegemony (1962-1978). Stands out the importance of three of the most prominent members of the party during this process: its founder, Manuel Gómez Morín, and those who were responsible of its modernization: Luis H. Álvarez and Adolfo Christlieb Ibarrola, who promoted a political project inspired in the Christian Social doctrine, following the principles of the European Christian Democratic parties. PAN is constituted as a secular organization, inspired in Christian values, that respects the temporary power's autonomy and fights for democracy. This dissertation explains how PAN contributed to the politizing of believers and the viability to become a party in opposition to the party in the government.