The People's Party (PP) ( es, Partido del Pueblo, PP) was a
political party in
Puerto Rico, founded by
Roberto Sánchez Vilella
Roberto Sánchez Vilella (19 February 1913 – 24 March 1997) was the governor of Puerto Rico from 1965 to 1969. Sánchez Vilella successfully ran for governor in the 1964 elections for the '' Partido Popular Democrático''. He is also the fou ...
in 1968.
It was also known as ''el Partido del Sol'' (the Party of the Sun) from its logo which featured a bright orange rising sun.
History
In 1964,
Partido Popular Democratico (PPD) candidate
Roberto Sánchez Vilella
Roberto Sánchez Vilella (19 February 1913 – 24 March 1997) was the governor of Puerto Rico from 1965 to 1969. Sánchez Vilella successfully ran for governor in the 1964 elections for the '' Partido Popular Democrático''. He is also the fou ...
had become the second governor to be democratically elected in Puerto Rico.
The party remained in power until 1968, when
Luis A. Ferré
Don Luis Alberto Ferré Aguayo (February 17, 1904 October 20, 2003) was a Puerto Rican engineer, industrialist, politician, philanthropist, and a patron of the arts. He was the governor of Puerto Rico from 1969 to 1973. He was the founder of the ...
, of the newly founded
Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP), won
the elections due to the PDP's big division of 1968. This division was the result of the personal and irreconcilable differences between the PPD's founder,
Luis Muñoz Marín
José Luis Alberto Muñoz Marín (February 18, 1898April 30, 1980) was a Puerto Rican journalist, politician, statesman and was the first elected governor of Puerto Rico, regarded as the "Architect of the Puerto Rico Commonwealth."
In 1948 he ...
, and then current governor, Roberto Sánchez Vilella.
Luis Muñoz Marín had opposed Sánchez Vilella's attempt to run for reelection and at a party assembly party-founder Muñoz Marín nominated
Luis Negrón López as his new candidate for governor. The nomination caused a deep division in the PPD prompting Sánchez Vilella to create a new party, the ''Partido del Pueblo'' (People's Party).
The new party's motto was ''"que el pueblo decida"'' ("let the people decide"), a motto clearly directed at Muñoz Marín who denied Sánchez Vilella of a
primary.
Sánchez Vilella ran as candidate for governor under this new party and Negrón López ran under the PPD banner. The result was a split among PPD's voters, leading to the first victory by
Luis A. Ferré
Don Luis Alberto Ferré Aguayo (February 17, 1904 October 20, 2003) was a Puerto Rican engineer, industrialist, politician, philanthropist, and a patron of the arts. He was the governor of Puerto Rico from 1969 to 1973. He was the founder of the ...
of the PNP (
Partido Nuevo Progresista) and the PPD's defeat in the
1968 general election.
See also
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List of political parties in Puerto Rico
This article lists political parties in Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico has a 'first past the post' electoral system, in which a voter can vote by party, by candidate or both. To qualify as an official political party (and thus be able to appear on the ...
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Politics of Puerto Rico
The politics of Puerto Rico take place in the framework of a democratic republic form of government that is under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United States Congress as an organized unincorporated territory. Since the 1898 invasio ...
References
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Defunct liberal parties in the United States
Defunct political parties in Puerto Rico
Political parties established in 1968
Political parties with year of disestablishment missing