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National Front (Spanish: Frente Nacional 1958–1974) was a period in the history of Colombia in which the two main political parties, the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party, agreed to rotate power, intercalating for a period of four presidential terms.
The National Front was a coalition of Liberals and Conservatives established in 1957 to end a decade of violent civil strife. The pact between the two major established parties had guaranteed the peaceful alternation of presidential terms between them but also, in López…
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Mar 20, 2013 · On 1 December 1957, the people of Colombia voted in a referendum accepting this agreement, and this new civilian administration became known as the National Front. The National Front regime required alternative governments between the Liberal and Conservative parties every four years, for 16 years, until 1974.
Carlos Lleras Restrepo was the third National Front president (1966–70). He returned the economy to a sound footing, improved government planning for economic development, and pushed through political reforms essential to an orderly end to the Front (which seemed increasingly to constitute a monopoly of power by the Conservative-Liberal ...
Post-National Front From 1974 until 1982. different presidential administrations chose to focus on ending the persistent insurgencies that sought to undermine Colombia's traditional political system.
National Front ( Spanish: Frente Nacional 1958 – 1974) was a period in the history of Colombia in which the two main political parties, the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party, agreed to rotate power, intercalating for a period of four presidential terms.
THE NATIONAL FRONT, 1958-74. Colombia Table of Contents. The National Front agreement to share power between Liberals and Conservatives was a constructive effort to assuage the interparty strife and distrust that had contributed to both the violence and the collapse of the democratic system.
