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National Coalition Party (El Salvador)
The National Coalition Party ( es, Partido de Concertación Nacional, PCN) is a nationalist political party in El Salvador. Until 2011 it was known as the National Conciliation Party ( es, Partido de Conciliación Nacional, PCN). It was the most powerful political party in the country during the 1960s and 1970s, and was closely associated with the Salvadoran military. Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo, a candidate of the National Conciliation Party, was elected president in 1962, and the next three presidents were also from the party. After the 1979 coup the party declined in influence but continued to exist. History After 2000 Today, it is considered relatively minor as compared with the two major organizations, ARENA and the FMLN. At the legislative elections, held on 16 March 2003, the party won 13.0% of the popular vote and 16 out of 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly. Its candidate in the presidential election of 21 March 2004, José Rafael Machuca Zelaya, won 2.7%. In th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Rodríguez (politician)
Manuel Rodríguez may refer to: Sports * Manolete (Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez, 1917–1947), Spanish bullfighter * Manuel Rodríguez Barros (1926-1997), Spanish cyclist * Manuel Rodríguez (footballer) (1938–2018), Chilean footballer * Manuel Rodríguez Navarro (born 1969), Spanish wheelchair basketball player * Manuel Cristian Rodríguez (boxer) (born 1973), Argentine boxer * Manuel Rodríguez (first baseman) (born 1985), Panamanian baseball player * Manu Rodríguez (born 1991), Spanish basketball player * Manuel Rodríguez (pitcher) (born 1996), Mexican baseball player * Manuel Rodríguez (tennis), Chilean tennis player Others * Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza (1785–1818), Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader * Manuel Rodríguez Lozano (1896–1971), Mexican painter * Manuel Rodríguez Orellana (born 1948), Puerto Rican legal scholar, lawyer, lecturer, columnist, published poet and political leader * Manuel Rodríguez Ramos (born 1908), Puerto Rican writer, law professor and S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ideological or policy goals. Political parties have become a major part of the politics of almost every country, as modern party organizations developed and spread around the world over the last few centuries. It is extremely rare for a country to have Non-partisan democracy, no political parties. Some countries have Single-party state, only one political party while others have Multi-party system, several. Parties are important in the politics of autocracies as well as democracies, though usually democracies have more political parties than autocracies. Autocracies often have a single party that governs the country, and some political scientists consider competition between two or more parties to be an essential part of democracy. Part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Salvadoran Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 30 April 1962.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p276 Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo of the National Conciliation Party was the sole candidate and was elected unopposed.Nohlen, p288 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. *Political Handbook of the world, 1962. New York, 1963. *Schooley, Helen. Conflict in Central America. Harlow: Longman. 1987. *Williams, Philip J. and Knut Walter. Militarization and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Humberto Romero
General Carlos Humberto Romero Mena (29 February 1924 – 27 February 2017) was a Salvadoran army general politician who served as President of El Salvador from 1 July 1977, until his overthrow in a coup d'état on 15 October 1979. Early life Romero was born in Chalatenango, El Salvador, on 19 February 1924. Military career Romero studied at the Captain General Gerardo Barrios Military School and the Command and General Staff School. He did specialized horse riding studies in Mexico. Romero was a member of the National Conciliation Party, and also served as Defense Minister from 1972 to 1977. He launched his candidacy for the National Conciliation Party (PCN) in the February 1977 presidential elections. On 24 February, the Central Elections Council declared that he had won the election with 67.3% of the vote and was to be sworn in as President while Julio Ernesto Astacio was declared Vice President. The opposition forces grouped in the National Opposition Union (UNO) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arturo Armando Molina
Colonel Arturo Armando Molina Barraza (6 August 1927 – 18 July 2021) was a Salvadoran politician and military officer, who served as President of El Salvador from 1972 to 1977. He was born in San Salvador. He served between 1 July 1972 and 1 July 1977. The 1973 oil crisis led to rising food prices and decreased agricultural output. This worsened the existent socioeconomic inequality in the country, leading to increased unrest. In response, Molina enacted a series of land reform measures, calling for large landholdings to be redistributed among the peasant population.Walter, Williams (1997). ''Militarization and Demilitarization in El Salvador’s Transition to Democracy''. p. 90. Molina was distrusted by the oligarchy and the right-wing military, and was resented by the opposition from whom he had stolen power. His attempts to silence opposition included the military occupation of the University of El Salvador in 1972, as well as violently suppressing student protests that er ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fidel Sánchez Hernández
Fidel Sánchez Hernández (7 July 1917 – 28 February 2003) was a Salvadoran military officer and politician who served as president of El Salvador from 1967 to 1972. During his rule, Sánchez Hernández faced war and economic turmoil. Military career Before becoming president, Sánchez Hernández was an army general in El Salvador and had brief stints as a military attaché in Washington D.C. (after his participation in the overthrow of José María Lemus in 1960) and in Paris. President Julio Adalberto Rivera promoted him to Minister of the Interior in 1962, and he served in that office until 1967, when he succeeded Rivera to the position of president. Presidency He continued Rivera's progressive programs and created a mostly civilian cabinet. The 1967 election was considered one of the few in the period of military domination to have been fairly conducted; the gains made by the opposition (winning a majority of the popular vote) in the legislative and local electio ... [...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] |
2006 Salvadoran Legislative Election
Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 12 March 2006. Inter-Parliamentary Union Although the received the most votes, the emerged as the largest party, winning 34 of the 84 seats. Results References {{Salvadoran elections[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Rafael Machuca Zelaya
José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacular form of Joseph, which is also in current usage as a given name. José is also commonly used as part of masculine name composites, such as José Manuel, José Maria or Antonio José, and also in female name composites like Maria José or Marie-José. The feminine written form is ''Josée'' as in French. In Netherlandic Dutch, however, ''José'' is a feminine given name and is pronounced ; it may occur as part of name composites like Marie-José or as a feminine first name in its own right; it can also be short for the name ''Josina'' and even a Dutch hypocorism of the name ''Johanna''. In England, Jose is originally a Romano-Celtic surname, and people with this family name can usually be found in, or traced to, the English county of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Salvadoran Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 21 March 2004. Antonio Saca of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) party won the election with 57% of the vote, avoiding the need for a run-off on 2 May. Candidates There were two front-running candidates: * Antonio Saca of the ruling Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). In his campaign, Saca embraced the free-market and pro- US policies followed by his predecessor and fellow ', Francisco Flores. He was also the clear favorite of the Bush administration. * Schafik Handal of the opposition Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). Handal sought to capitalize on discontent over slow economic growth, increasing crime, and income disparities between the poor and the tiny elite. He pledged to raise the tax burden on the rich and to re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba. There were also two additional candidates. However, pre-vote opinion polls consistently placed both of them far behind the two leader ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Salvadoran Legislative Election
Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 16 March 2003 to elect 84 deputies to the Legislative Assembly for a term of three years. The main opposition party, the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), won the most seats in election at 31.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p286 However the governing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) won enough seats to continue in government with the Party of National Conciliation (PCN). Background ARENA had controlled the government of El Salvador since winning the 1989 presidential election. The 2003 legislative election was the fifth election since the ending of the Salvadoran Civil War in 1992. Campaign In total 11 political parties contested the election but it was seen as being primarily between ARENA and the opposition FMLN. ARENA campaigned for a mandate to continue the economic reforms they had been pursuing but was hurt in the election by a recent six-month strike ... [...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] |
