The anti-communist faction (which were in Bernardo Ibáñez, Oscar Schnake and Juan Bautista Rossetti) supported the law, and the pro-communist (headed by Eugenio González and Raúl Ampuero) refused.
The anticommunist group is expelled but makes the Conservative Electoral Registration assign them the name of the Socialist Party of Chile.
The argument used to support Ibáñez was that it was a popular candidate and needed to drag him from within a truly progressive orientation.
In April 1953, Ibanez reshuffled his cabinet PSP occupying the Ministry of Finance (Felipe Herrera), Labour (Enrique Monti Forno) and Mining (Almeyda).
Which led to the 1957 Unity Conference, which reunites the two major factions of Chilean socialism in the Socialist Party of Chile.