The Bourgeois Insurrection: In March 1973, the last democratic elections were held in Chile during Salvador Allende's presidency. The opposition and the middle class voted against the communist threat. But Allende won with 42,3% of the vote, and the parliamentary opposition realized that legal mechanisms were no longer effective. From then on, the strategy of these democratic adversaries would, paradoxically, be the strategy of a coup d'état.