The Eastern Rural Party (

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: ''Partido Ruralista Oriental'', PRO) was a small

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. The Eastern Rural Party was established in 1978 by a large landowner Víctor Hugones. In 1978 the Eastern Rural Party allied with the

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and its candidate

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. Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 2. xford .a. Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. P.151. After the elections on 9 July 1978 the Eastern Rural Party disappeared.

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