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Christian Democratic Party (El Salvador)
The Christian Democratic Party ( es, Partido Demócrata Cristiano, links=no) is a Christian democratic party in El Salvador. After being officially disbanded by the Supreme Court in 2011, it continued to work under the name of Party of Hope ( es, Partido de la Esperanza), before re-taking its original name in 2012. In the legislative elections, held on 16 March 2003, the party won 7.3% of the popular vote and 5 out of 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly. In the presidential election of 21 March 2004, the PDC supported Héctor Silva Argüello of the United Democratic Centre, who won 3% of the vote. In the 12 March 2006 legislative election, the party won 6.8% of the popular vote and 6 out of 84 seats. The party had a similar level of support for the 2009 legislative elections, winning 6% of the vote and 5 seats. History The Christian Democratic Party is the longest lasting of El Salvador's two leading parties. It was the left-of-center party while the Party of National Concil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodolfo Parker
Rodolfo Antonio Parker Soto (born 1 November 1957) is an attorney and politician of the Christian Democratic Party in El Salvador. Biography Parker is a lawyer, notary, and deputy for the department of San Salvador in parliament as its vice-president. Parker is married to German national Cristina Wein Niemann, has two daughters and a son Andrés Rodolfo Parker Wein (born 1982). His primary school was the Externado San José, he made 1975 its Abitur at the Liceo Salvadoreño. He studied Law and Social Sciences at the University of El Salvador and graduated from the José Matías Delgado University. In 1985, he made postgraduate studies in specialized international law at the National University of Costa Rica. From 1975 to 1979, he gained professional experience at the Juzgado de Primera Instancia, a court in San Salvador as an employee and secretary. Since 1985, he has a law firm. From 1981 to 1989 he was Assessor of the General Staff of FAES.''La Prensa Grafica'' 30. März 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Salvadoran Legislative Election
Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 18 January 2009. The leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) was widely expected to win the most seats for the first time against the nationalist conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). As a result of the election, the Revolutionary Democratic Front, a left-wing party founded by FMLN dissidents in 2006 with the same name and symbols as the historic FDR from the Salvadoran Civil War, was deregistered as a political party as it failed to gain either a seat or 50,000 votes, as necessary to sustain registration. All parties contested the election in all departments, except for the FDR, which did not contest the election in three departments and stood jointly with the PDC in two others. In San Isidro in Cabañas Department, voting had to be rescheduled to 25 January 2009 after a group of non-natives illegally attempted to vote. Results References El Salvador Legislative election A general ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Álvaro Magaña
Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja (October 8, 1925 – July 10, 2001) was a Salvadoran lawyer, economist and politician who was the President of El Salvador, president of El Salvador from 1982 to 1984. Biography He was born in Ahuachapán, El Salvador, and received his master's degree from the University of Chicago in 1952. He was president of the largest mortgage bank of El Salvador (Banco Hipotecario) before the 1982 Salvadoran legislative election, 1982 election. He was sworn in by the President of the Constituent Assembly Roberto D'Aubuisson. His inauguration as president on May 2, 1982, marked the beginning of elected government in El Salvador after the junta of 1979–1982. In 1982, the Salvadoran political parties decided that it was time to move on from the rule of the Revolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador, Revolutionary Government Junta (JRG) and decided to install Magaña as head of state. Soon afterward, both political parties met at Magaña's farm in Apanec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1982 Salvadoran Presidential Election
Indirect presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 29 April 1982. The Legislative Assembly voted on three candidates nominated by the armed forces. Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja, leader of the Democratic Action, was elected by 36 votes to 17, ahead of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and Party of National Conciliation candidates. Roberto D'Aubuisson Roberto D'Aubuisson Arrieta (23 August 1943 – 20 February 1992) was a neo-fascist Salvadoran soldier, politician and death squad leader. In 1981, he co-founded and became the first leader of the far-right Nationalist Republican Alliance ... accused Jaime Abdul Gutiérrez Avendaño of imposing on the Assembly "his personal decision to put Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja in the presidency" in spite of a "categorical no" from the ARENA deputies. Magaña was sworn into office on 2 May.Schooley, Helen (1987) ''Conflict in Central America'' Harlow: Longman, p63 Results Of the seven abstaining votes, fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernesto Antonio Claramount Roseville
Ernesto Antonio Claramount Rozeville (1924–2008''El diario de hoy'/ref>) was a militant and politician in El Salvador. Life Claramount Rozeville was the son of Blanca Rozeville and brigade general Antonio Claramount Lucero (June 13, 1886 - 25 July 1975). A pilot. He attended the Escuela Militar General Gerardo Barrios. In the 1940s, he attended the Cavalry School of Mexican Army. In July 1969, he was in the war against Honduras. The party alliance National Opposing Union put him on when he was retired colonel to 1977 Salvadoran presidential election as a presidential candidate. As vice president of the former mayor of San Salvador, José Antonio Morales Ehrlich was provided by the Christian Democratic Party. Salvadoran presidential election, 1977 * Christian Democratic Party * National Revolutionary Movement * National Opposing Union Against the obvious election fraud were protests in the Plaza de Libertad in San Salvador and suppressed the demonstration with about 100 victims. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 Salvadoran Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 20 February 1977.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p276 The result was a victory for Carlos Humberto Romero of the Party of National Conciliation, who received 67.3% of the vote. However, the election was characterised by massive fraud,Nohlen, p289 with officials of the National Opposing Union (UNO, an alliance of the Christian Democratic Party, National Revolutionary Movement and Nationalist Democratic Union) intercepting military radio transmissions ordering ballot box stuffing, whilst their election officials were assaulted and ejected from polling stations.Herman, Edward S. and Frank Brodhead (1984) ''Demonstration elections: U.S.-staged elections in the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and El Salvador'' Boston: South End Press, p102 According to credible witnesses, in sixteen districts where an honest count was made, the UNO candidate, Ernesto Antonio Claramount Roseville, won aroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972 Salvadoran Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 20 February 1972.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p. 276 The result was a victory for Arturo Armando Molina of the Party of National Conciliation (PCN), who received 43.4% of the vote. However, the election was characterised by massive fraud. The PCN had faced a strong challenge from left- and right-wing opposition, and as a result had tried to rig the election by holding the presidential elections two weeks before the legislative election (which took place on 12 March) to ensure that if Molina failed to pass the 50% mark, the Legislative Assembly would still be under PCN control to approve him as president. Despite their attempts to stuff ballot boxes, it looked for a while as though José Napoleón Duarte of the opposition National Opposing Union (UNO, a coalition of the Christian Democratic Party National Revolutionary Movement and Nationalist Democratic Union) had been victoriou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Rodríguez
Abraham, ; ar, , , name=, group= (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jews and God; in Christianity, he is the spiritual progenitor of all believers, whether Jewish or non-Jewish; and in Islam, he is a link in the chain of Islamic prophets that begins with Adam (see Adam in Islam) and culminates in Muhammad. His life, told in the narrative of the Book of Genesis, revolves around the themes of posterity and land. Abraham is called by God to leave the house of his father Terah and settle in the land of Canaan, which God now promises to Abraham and his progeny. This promise is subsequently inherited by Isaac, Abraham's son by his wife Sarah, while Isaac's half-brother Ishmael is also promised that he will be the founder of a great nation. Abraham purchases a tomb (the Cave of the Patriarchs) at Hebron to be Sarah' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1967 Salvadoran Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 5 March 1967.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p276 The result was a victory for Fidel Sánchez Hernández of the Party of National Conciliation, who won 54.4 percent of the vote. Results References Bibliography *Anderson, Thomas P. Matanza: El Salvador's communist revolt of 1932. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1971. *Benítez Manaut, Raúl. "El Salvador: un equilibrio imperfecto entre los votos y las botas." Secuencia 17:71-92 (mayo-agosto de 1990). *Eguizábal, Cristina. "El Salvador: elecciones sin democracia." Polemica (Costa Rica) 14/15:16-33 (marzo-junio 1984). 1984. *Kantor, Harry. Patterns of politics and political systems in Latin America. Chicago: Rand McNally & Company. 1969. *Montgomery, Tommie Sue. 1995. Revolution in El Salvador: from civil strife to civil peace. Boulder: Westview. *Political Handbook of the world, 1967. New York, 1968. *Webre, Stephen. Jos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Central is an adjective usually referring to being in the center of some place or (mathematical) object. Central may also refer to: Directions and generalised locations * Central Africa, a region in the centre of Africa continent, also known as Middle Africa * Central America, a region in the centre of America continent * Central Asia, a region in the centre of Eurasian continent * Central Australia, a region of the Australian continent * Central Belt, an area in the centre of Scotland * Central Europe, a region of the European continent * Central London, the centre of London * Central Region (other) * Central United States, a region of the United States of America Specific locations Countries * Central African Republic, a country in Africa States and provinces * Blue Nile (state) or Central, a state in Sudan * Central Department, Paraguay * Central Province (Kenya) * Central Province (Papua New Guinea) * Central Province (Solomon Islands) * Central Province, Sri Lank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( es, Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, FMLN) is a left-wing political party in El Salvador. The FMLN was formed as an umbrella group on 10 October 1980, from five leftist guerrilla organizations; the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí (FPL), the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), the Resistencia Nacional (RN), the Partido Comunista Salvadoreño (PCS) and the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores Centroamericanos (PRTC). The FMLN was one of the main participants in the Salvadoran Civil War. After the Chapultepec Peace Accords were signed in 1992, all armed FMLN units were demobilized and their organization became a legal left-wing political party in El Salvador. On 15 March 2009, the FMLN won the presidential elections with former journalist Mauricio Funes as its candidate. Two months earlier in municipal and legislative elections, the FMLN won the majority of the mayoralties in the coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nationalist Republican Alliance
The Nationalist Republican Alliance ( es, Alianza Republicana Nacionalista, ARENA) is a conservative, right-wing political party of El Salvador. It was founded on 30 September 1981 by retired Salvadoran Army Major Roberto D'Aubuisson. It defines itself as a political institution constituted to defend the democratic, republican, and representative system of government, the social market economy system and nationalism. ARENA controlled the National Assembly of El Salvador until 1985, and its party leader Alfredo Cristiani was elected to the presidency in 1989. ARENA controlled the presidency from 1989 until 2009. The party gained a plurality in the Legislative Assembly in 2012. History ARENA was founded in 1981 and was composed of former members from National Conciliation Party (PCN), including Roberto D'Aubuisson, who ordered the murder of the martyr and saint, Archbishop Óscar Romero. The party arose in response to "the insurgency of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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