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Revolutionary Party Of Democratic Unification
The Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification ( es, Partido Revolucionario de Unificación Democrática) was the ruling party in El Salvador during the 1950s and early 1960s. History The party was established 1945 as the official party of the military rulers. Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'',p270 In the 1950 general elections, its candidate Óscar Osorio won the presidential elections, whilst the party won 38 of the 52 seats in the Constitutional Assembly. It was the only party to contest the 1952 and 1954 legislative elections. In the 1956 presidential elections several opposition candidates were barred from standing by the Central Elections Council,Nohlen, p288 allowing its candidate, José MarÃa Lemus Lieutenant Colonel José MarÃa Lemus López (22 July 1911 – 31 March 1993) was president of El Salvador from 14 September 1956 to 26 October 1960. Before becoming a president, he served as an undersecretary of defense and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Salvador
El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is San Salvador. The country's population in 2022 is estimated to be 6.5 million. Among the Mesoamerican nations that historically controlled the region are the Lenca (after 600 AD), the Mayans, and then the Cuzcatlecs. Archaeological monuments also suggest an early Olmec presence around the first millennium BC. In the beginning of the 16th century, the Spanish Empire conquered the Central American territory, incorporating it into the Viceroyalty of New Spain ruled from Mexico City. However the Viceroyalty of Mexico had little to no influence in the daily affairs of the isthmus, which was colonized in 1524. In 1609, the area was declared the Captaincy General of Guatemala by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dieter Nohlen
Dieter Nohlen (born 6 November 1939) is a German academic and political scientist. He currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. An expert on electoral system An electoral system or voting system is a set of rules that determine how elections and referendums are conducted and how their results are determined. Electoral systems are used in politics to elect governments, while non-political elections ma ...s and political development, he has published several books. IDEA Bibliography Books published by Nohlen include: *''Electoral systems of the world'' (in German, 1978) *''Lexicon of politics'' (seven volumes) *''Elections and Electoral Systems'' (1996) *''Electi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950 Salvadoran General Election
General elections were held in El Salvador between 26 and 29 March 1950. The result was a victory for Óscar Osorio in the presidential election,Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 1. xford .a.: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. Pp.287. and his Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification The Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification ( es, Partido Revolucionario de Unificación Democrática) was the ruling party in El Salvador during the 1950s and early 1960s. History The party was established 1945 as the official party of the ... in the legislative election. Results References Bibliography *''Political Handbook of the world, 1950'' New York, 1951 *BenÃtez Manaut, Raúl (1990) "El Salvador: un equilibrio imperfecto entre los votos y las botas" ''Secuencia'' 17:71-92 *Consejo Central de Elecciones (1951) ''Memoria de las elecciones de 1950'' San Salvador: Secretaria de Información de la Presidencia de la Republica. *Eguizábal, Cristin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Óscar Osorio
Óscar Osorio Hernández (December 14, 1910 – March 6, 1969) ruled as a member of the Revolutionary Council of Government from December 14, 1948 to September 14, 1950. He was President of El Salvador from September 14, 1950 until September 14, 1956. Biography Osorio was born in the town of Sonsonate, El Salvador, on December 14, 1910. He married twice: first with Leticia Rosales, with whom she had three children: Ana Maya, Rhina and Oscar. His second wife was Esperanza Llerena and had two children, Cecilia and Humberto. His primary education was made in Sonsonate, Santa Ana and San Salvador, and worked in the Captain General Gerardo Barrios Military School in the capital. He did his higher education in various national and foreign academies, but mostly 3 years in the War College in Turin, Italy, where he returned to the country in October 1943. On December 14, 1948, there was a coup d'état of the "young soldiers" against President Salvador Castaneda Castro. Osorio, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1952 Salvadoran Legislative Election
Legislative elections were held in El Salvador in March 1952. Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p276 The result was a victory for the Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification, which was the only party to contest the elections as the opposition Renovating Action Party claimed that they were rigged.Webre, Stephen (1979) ''José Napoleón Duarte and the Christian Democratic Party in Salvadoran Politics 1960-1972'' Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, p18 Results References Bibliography *Political Handbook of the world, 1952. New York, 1953. *BenÃtez Manaut, Raúl. 1990. "El Salvador: un equilibrio imperfecto entre los votos y las botas." Secuencia 17:71-92 (mayo-agosto de 1990). *Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems. 1967. El Salvador election factbook, March 5, 1967. Washington: Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems. *Williams, Philip J. and Knut Walter. 1997. Militarization a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 Salvadoran Legislative Election
Legislative elections were held in El Salvador in March 1954. Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p276 The result was a victory for the Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification, which was the only party to contest the elections as the opposition Renovating Action Party claimed that they were rigged.Webre, Stephen (1979) ''José Napoleón Duarte and the Christian Democratic Party in Salvadoran Politics 1960-1972'' Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, p18 Results References Bibliography *Political Handbook of the world, 1954. New York, 1955. *BenÃtez Manaut, Raúl. 1990. "El Salvador: un equilibrio imperfecto entre los votos y las botas." Secuencia 17:71-92 (mayo-agosto de 1990). *Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems. 1967. El Salvador election factbook, March 5, 1967. Washington: Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems. {{Salvadoran elections El Salvador Legislative election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1956 Salvadoran Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 4 March 1956.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p276 The result was a victory for José MarÃa Lemus of the Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification, who received 95.2% of the vote. The Central Electoral Council had disqualified the candidacies of José Alberto Funes ( Democratic Institutional Party), Roberto Edmundo Cannessa ( National Action Party) and José Alvaro DÃaz (Nationalist Democratic Party). It also forbade Rafael Carranza Anaya ( Authentic Constitutional Party) and Enrique Magaña Menéndez (Renovating Action Party) from withdrawing their candidacies; nevertheless, the latter two boycotted the elections.Nohlen, p288 Results References Bibliography *BenÃtez Manaut, Raúl. "El Salvador: un equilibrio imperfecto entre los votos y las botas." Secuencia 17:71-92 (mayo-agosto de 1990). *Kantor, Harry. Patterns of politics and political systems in Latin America. Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José MarÃa Lemus
Lieutenant Colonel José MarÃa Lemus López (22 July 1911 – 31 March 1993) was president of El Salvador from 14 September 1956 to 26 October 1960. Before becoming a president, he served as an undersecretary of defense and a minister of the interior. Life and career He was born into a family of humble beginnings in La Unión, El Salvador. He was undersecretary of defense from 1948-1949. As President Óscar Osorio's choice for the successor to presidency, he antagonized many by fighting against corruption. Having won the disputed election of 1956, he appointed prominent civilians into his government and allowed many exiles to return the country. He was a member of the Party of Democratic Unification. He continued socio-economic reforms of his predecessor, but there was no improvement in the living standards of the working class. He promulgated the Tenant Law, which protects the rights of the renters of houses or "Mesones, called also Vecindades" (humble apartment units wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1956 Salvadoran Legislative Election
Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 15 May 1956.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p276 The result was a victory for the Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification, which won all 54 seats. Results References Bibliography *Political Handbook of the world, 1956. New York, 1957. *BenÃtez Manaut, Raúl. 1990. "El Salvador: un equilibrio imperfecto entre los votos y las botas." Secuencia 17:71-92 (mayo-agosto de 1990). *Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems. 1967. El Salvador election factbook, March 5, 1967. Washington: Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems. *Ruddle, Kenneth. 1972. Latin American political statistics. supplement to the statistical abstract of Latin America. Los Angeles: Latin American Center, UCLA. *Williams, Philip J. and Knut Walter. 1997. Militarization and demilitarization in El Salvador's transition to democracy. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Action Party (El Salvador)
The National Action Party () is a political party in El Salvador. It first contested national elections in 1956. Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p279 However, Roberto Edmundo Cannessa, its candidate in the presidential election was disqualified, whilst in the legislative elections it failed to win a seat, despite being the only party to run against the Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification. It did not contest the 1958 elections, but returned in 1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Jan ..., again failing to win a seat against the PRUN. It also failed to win a seat in the Constitutional Assembly elections in 1961. The party did not contest another election until 2000, when it won two seats in the legislative election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 Salvadoran Legislative Election
Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 23 March 1958. Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p276 The result was a victory for the Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification, which won all 54 seats unopposed after opposition candidates withdrew from the elections.BenÃtez Manaut, Raúl (1990) "El Salvador: un equilibrio imperfecto entre los votos y las botas" ''Secuencia'' 17:71-92, p72 Results References Bibliography *Political Handbook of the world, 1958. New York, 1959. *Eguizábal, Cristina. 1984. "El Salvador: elecciones sin democracia." Polemica (Costa Rica) 14/15:16-33 (marzo-junio 1984). *Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems. 1967. El Salvador election factbook, March 5, 1967. Washington: Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems. *Ruddle, Kenneth. 1972. Latin American political statistics. supplement to the statistical abstract of Latin America. Los Angeles: Latin American Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960 Salvadoran Legislative Election
Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 24 April 1960.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p276 The result was a victory for the Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification, which won all 54 seats after the Central Electoral Council had disqualified the candidates of the Renovating Action Party in seven of fourteen constituencies.Nohlen, p282 Results References Bibliography *Political Handbook of the world, 1960. New York, 1961. *BenÃtez Manaut, Raúl. 1990. "El Salvador: un equilibrio imperfecto entre los votos y las botas." Secuencia 17:71-92 (mayo-agosto de 1990). *Eguizábal, Cristina. 1984. "El Salvador: elecciones sin democracia." Polemica (Costa Rica) 14/15:16-33 (marzo-junio 1984). *Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems. 1967. El Salvador election factbook, March 5, 1967. Washington: Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems. *Kantor, Harry. 1969. Patterns of politics and po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
