Right-wing political support for the 1973 Chilean coup

The right-wing political support for the 1973 Chilean coup was the outcome of the inability of conservative and right wing parties in Chile to defeat the democratically elected Popular Unity government politically. Despite the crisis and polarization that had emerge in Chile the popular unity coalition had managed to extend its support not only among its working class base but even among sections of the middle classes that had traditionally supported the Christian democratic party.
In 1973 a number of political resolutions conservative and right-wing parties processed through political institutions of the Chilean state attempted to officially reject the constitutionality of the democratically elected Salvador Allende government. It is widely accepted that these resolutions formed the basis that allowed the ultimate military overthrow of the Popular Unity government on in one of the bloodiest military coups in recorded history - that according to the The National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation Report cost the lives of almost 2,279 people.
Supreme Court's resolution
On 26 May 1973, Chile’s Supreme Court unanimously denounced the Allende regime's disruption of the legality of the nation in its failure to uphold judicial decisions, because of its continual refusal to permit police execution of judicial resolutions contradicting the Government's measures.
Chamber of Deputies' resolution
On 22 August 1973 the Christian Democrats and the National Party members of the Chamber of Deputies voted 81 to 47, the resolution titled Declaration of the Breakdown of Chile’s Democracy that asked the military to put an immediate end to breach the Constitution . . . with the goal of redirecting government activity toward the path of Law and ensuring the Constitutional order of our Nation, and the essential underpinnings of democratic co-existence among Chileans.
The resolution declared that the Allende Government sought . . . to conquer absolute power with the obvious purpose of subjecting all citizens to the strictest political and economic control by the State . . . the goal of establishing a totalitarian system, claiming it had made violations of the Constitution . . . a permanent system of conduct. Essentially, most of the accusations were about the Socialist Government disregarding the separation of powers, and arrogating legislative and judicial prerogatives to the executive branch of government.
Specifically, the Socialist Government of President Allende was accused of:
* ruling by decree, thwarting the normal legislative system
* refusing to enforce judicial decisions against its partisans; not carrying out sentences and judicial resolutions that contravene its objectives
* ignoring the decrees of the independent General Comptroller's Office
* sundry media offenses; usurping control of the National Television Network and applying ... economic pressure against those media organizations that are not unconditional supporters of the government...
* allowing its socialist supporters to assemble armed, preventing the same by its right wing opponents
* . . . supporting more than 1,500 illegal ‘takings’ of farms...
* illegal repression of the El Teniente miners’ strike
* illegally limiting emigration
Finally, the resolution condemned the creation and development of government-protected armed groups, which . . . are headed towards a confrontation with the armed forces. President Allende's efforts to re-organize the military and the police forces were characterized as notorious attempts to use the armed and police forces for partisan ends, destroy their institutional hierarchy, and politically infiltrate their ranks.

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