The National Democratic Party ( es, Partido Demócrata Nacional, PDN) was a

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created in 1931. It was generally known simply as Conservative Party ( es, Partido Conservador). Along with the ''Antipersonalist'' Radical Civic Union (UCR-A) and the Independent Socialist Party (PSI) it was a part of the Concordancia, a coalition government that ruled between 1932 and 1943, a period of

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known as the "

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", characterised by massive

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. Among its leading figures were

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, Manuel Fresco and Rodolfo Moreno. Ramón S. Castillo, Vice-President to

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, who went to serve as acting President between 1940 and 1942, and later as President until June 4, 1943, was a member of this party. After the "'' Revolución Libertadora''" (1955–1958), the military uprising which overthrew

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, the PDN fragmented into various parties such as the Conservative People's Party (PCP), the

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and the Centrist Democratic Party.

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