PP-CDS. Pactos y alternativas de gobierno del centro-derecha en 1989

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to explain the so called «centre-right» agreements between some political force arisen after its re-foundation and another which is declining after developing governing tasks at a national level. To achieve this, we will concentrate our research in finding out why these agreements are made, the timing they are concerted, the intervening parties, the conditions established at the time, the City Halls and Autonomic Communities involved (making special emphasis in the City Halls of Madrid). We will also analyses the outcome of these agreements viewed from two temporal perspectives: at short term, as the agreements did not rendered the desired effects to both parties at the 1989 European elections; and at long term, trying to determine who gained most advantage, which in this case was the Partido Popular (Party of the People PP), which successfully installed itself as the dominating force of the «centre-right». It should be mentioned that the PP pursued this strategy from its very re-foundation, and finds its implementation at the start of the general elections in 1989, but mostly at the initiation of the municipalities and autonomics in 1991.