The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (''Movimiento Nacional Revolucionario'', MNR) was a Honduran

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 political ideology ...

. It was formed when moderate members of the

National Party of Honduras The National Party of Honduras (PNH; es, Partido Nacional de Honduras) is a conservative political party in Honduras founded on 27 February 1902, by Manuel Bonilla Chirinos. Historically it has been one of the two most influential parties in t ...

(''Partido Nacional de Honduras'', PNH) split from the party after

Tiburcio Carías Andino Tiburcio Carías Andino (5 March 1876 – 23 December 1969) was a Honduran politician and military officer with the rank of Major General. Thirty-eighth president of the Republic of Honduras, constitutional period from 1924 and thereafter in th ...

secured the PNH nomination for the 1954 Honduras presidential election. The MNR nominee for president that year was former vice president

Abraham Williams Calderón Abraham Williams Calderón (born 1894, died in 1986) was Honduran politician. He was known as Vice President of Honduras during the administration of Tiburcio Carías Andino and president of the National Congress of Honduras, and presidential ca ...

; he received approximately 53,000 of 260,000 votes.

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*Library of Congress Honduras country study Defunct political parties in Honduras {{Honduras-party-stub

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