Federal Party (Puerto Rico)
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The Federal Party ( es, Partido Federal) was a short-lived
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 ideological or p ...
in
Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and unincorporated ...
. The Federal Party was founded on by Luis Muñoz Rivera and other former members of the
Autonomist Party The Autonomist Party ( it, Partito Autonomista; hr, Autonomaška stranka) was an Italian-Dalmatianist political party in the Dalmatian political scene, that existed for around 70 years of the 19th century and until World War I. Its goal was ...
during US military rule of the island following the
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. The Federal Party supported greater self-rule for the island. The party was regarding as having among its members the former Spanish colonial elite consisting of large sugar plantation owners and
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s who had enslaved the Black residents of the Island.Bolivar Pagan. ''Historia de los Partidos Políticos Puertorriqueños (1898–1956).'' San Juan, Puerto Rico: Litografía Real Hermanos, Inc. 1959. Tomo I. p. 15. In , the party was reconstituted as the
Union of Puerto Rico The Union of Puerto Rico ( es, Unión de Puerto Rico, UPR), also known as the Unionist PartyBolivar Pagan. ''Historia de los Partidos Políticos Puertorriqueños (1898-1956).'' San Juan, Puerto Rico: Litografía Real Hermanos, Inc. 1959. Tomo I. p ...
, or Union Party.


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Further reading

* José Trías Monge, ''Puerto Rico: The Trials of the Oldest Colony in the World'' (Yale University Press, 1997) Defunct political parties in Puerto Rico Political parties established in 1899 1904 disestablishments {{Puerto Rico stub