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Patriotic Alliance For Change
The Patriotic Alliance for Change ( es, Alianza Patriótica por el Cambio, APC) was a Paraguayan electoral alliance. Its candidate in the 2008 election was Fernando Lugo, who won the election. Composition Its members included:http://www.abc.com.py/abc/nota/66241-Alianza-firmará-“carta-de-compromiso-político”-con-EUCP-para--municipales/ * Febrerista Revolutionary Party * National Encounter Party * Party for a Country of Solidarity *Christian Democratic Party * Movement for Socialism * Broad Front Former members, at the time of the 2008 election: *Authentic Radical Liberal Party The Authentic Radical Liberal Party ( es, Partido Liberal Radical Auténtico or ''PLRA'') is a centrist liberal political party in Paraguay. The party is a full member of Liberal International. The ''liberales'', as they are known, are the le ... * Progressive Democratic Party References Political party alliances in Paraguay Fernando Lugo {{paraguay-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Lugo
Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez (; born 30 May 1951) is a Paraguayan politician and laicized Catholic bishop who was President of Paraguay from 2008 to 2012. Previously he was a Roman Catholic priest and bishop, serving as Bishop of the Diocese of San Pedro from 1994 to 2005. He was elected as president in 2008, an election that ended 61 years of rule by the Colorado Party. In 2012, he was removed from office through an impeachment process that neighboring countries deemed a coup d'état. He was elected to the Senate of Paraguay in the 2013 general election. Early life He received his basic education at a religious school in Encarnación, and sold snacks on the streets."Interview with Fernando Lugo, by César Sanson for Agên ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Febrerista Revolutionary Party
The Revolutionary Febrerista Party ( es, Partido Revolucionario Febrerista, PRF) is a democratic socialist party of Paraguay. It was established in 1951 by Rafael Franco, President of Paraguay from the February Revolution of 1936 until his overthrow in August 1937. History In 1936, Rafael Franco came to power in the February Revolution. A year and a half later, he was overthrown in a coup that brought the Liberal Party's Félix Paiva to power and went into exile. Franco established the Revolutionary Febrerista Party, named after the revolution, on 11 December 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The party was initially banned in Paraguay, which was under a Colorado Party regime at the time. The party was legalised in 1964 as it was no longer deemed to be a threat to President Alfredo Stroessner. In the 1967 Constitutional Assembly elections, it won three of the 120 seats. In the general elections the following year, the party failed to win a Senate seat but won one seat in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressive Democratic Party (Paraguay)
The Progressive Democratic Party ( Spanish: ''Partido Democrático Progresista'') is a Paraguayan political party created in 2007, split from the Party for a Country of Solidarity. In the 2008 Paraguayan general election it won one seat in the Chamber of Deputies of Paraguay and one in the Senate of Paraguay. In the 2008 elections it was part of the Patriotic Alliance for Change The Patriotic Alliance for Change ( es, Alianza Patriótica por el Cambio, APC) was a Paraguayan electoral alliance. Its candidate in the 2008 election was Fernando Lugo, who won the election. Composition Its members included:http://www.abc.com ... electoral coalition, and had a representative, Rafael Filizzola, appointed interior minister. It withdrew from the governing coalition in early 2009, although it continued to participate as an observer, and to support the Lugo presidency. Filizzola remained interior minister until mid-2011, when Lugo asked him to resign. Further reading * Full member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Authentic Radical Liberal Party
The Authentic Radical Liberal Party ( es, Partido Liberal Radical Auténtico or ''PLRA'') is a centrist liberal political party in Paraguay. The party is a full member of Liberal International. The ''liberales'', as they are known, are the leading opposition to the dominant conservative Colorado Party. They have taken this position since the end of the Alfredo Stroessner dictatorship in 1989. They are the political successors of the Liberal Party, which traces its history back to 10 July 1887. The party was formed by Domingo Laíno, Carmen Casco de Lara Castro, Carlos Alberto González, Miguel Ángel Martínez Yaryes, and others in 1978, in opposition to the Constitutional Amendment of 1977 which imposed no term limits to the re-election of the Paraguayan president. In the presidential elections of 2008, the party achieved victory over the Colorado Party for the first time in 61 years through a political alliance headed by leftist Fernando Lugo and composed by other le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broad Front (Paraguay)
Broad Front (which is the translation from Spanish of both ''Frente Grande'' and ''Frente Amplio'') may refer to: * Broad Front (Argentina), Argentine political party *Broad Front UNEN, Defunct Argentine political coalition *Broad Front (Chile), Chilean coalition of parties * Broad Front (Costa Rica), Costa Rican political party *Broad Front (Dominican Republic), Dominican Republic political party * Broad Front (Paraguay), Paraguayan political party *Broad Front (Peru), Peruvian political party *Broad Front (Uruguay), Uruguayan coalition of parties *Broad Front for Democracy, Panamanian political party *Socialist Party – Broad Front of Ecuador, Ecuadorian political party * Broad front versus narrow front controversy in World War II The broad front versus narrow front controversy in World War II arose after General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander, decided to advance into Germany on a broad front in 1944, against the suggestions of his principal subordina ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Movement For Socialism (Paraguay)
The Movement for Socialism–Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples ( es, Movimiento al Socialismo–Instrumento Político por la Soberanía de los Pueblos, abbreviated MAS-IPSP, or simply MAS, punning on ''más'', Spanish for "more"), alternately referred to as the Movement Towards Socialism or the Movement to Socialism ( es, Movimiento al Socialismo ), is a Bolivian left-wing populist political party led by Evo Morales, founded in 1998. Its followers are known as ''Masistas''. MAS-IPSP has governed the country from 22 January 2006, following the first ever majority victory by a single party in the December 2005 elections, to 10 November 2019, and since the 2020 elections. MAS-IPSP evolved out of the movement to defend the interests of coca growers. Evo Morales has articulated the goals of his party and popular organizations as the need to achieve plurinational unity, and to develop a new hydrocarbon law which guarantees 50% of revenue to Bolivia, although ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Democratic Party (Paraguay)
The Christian Democratic Party ( es, Partido Demócrata Cristiano, PDC) is a political party in Paraguay. History The party was established in May 1960 and was one of the parties that renounced violence as a means of toppling the Stroessner regime. Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p416 However, the party did not contest a national election until Stroessner was overthrown in 1989. In the general elections later that year it received 1% of the vote, but failed to win a seat. It won a single seat in the 1991 Constitutional Assembly election, and in the 1993 general elections ran as part of the Social Democratic Coalition with the Paraguayan Humanist Party, but failed to win a seat. It again failed to win a seat in the 1998 elections, and the 2003 elections saw its vote share drop to just 0.2% in the Senate elections and 0.1% in the Chamber of Deputies election.Nohlen, p431 For the 2008 elections it was part of the Patriotic Alliance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party For A Country Of Solidarity
The Party for a Country of Solidarity ( es, Partido País Solidario, PPS) is a political party in Paraguay. It was formed in 2000 when a faction of the National Encounter Party led by Carlos Filizzola broke away to create a new party. History The party originated in 1996 as a faction of the National Encounter Party, the ''Movimiento Participación Amplia, Integración Solidaridad (PAIS)''. In 2000 Filizzola, who had been the National Encounter Party's President from April 1996 to March 1999, led the faction out of the National Encounter Party to form the Party for a Country of Solidarity. The party first contested national elections in 2003, when it won two seats in the Chamber of Deputies with 3.3% of the vote. For the 2008 elections it was part of the Patriotic Alliance for Change The Patriotic Alliance for Change ( es, Alianza Patriótica por el Cambio, APC) was a Paraguayan electoral alliance. Its candidate in the 2008 election was Fernando Lugo, who won the election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Encounter Party
The National Encounter Party ( es, Partido Encuentro Nacional, PEN) is a political party in Paraguay. History The National Encounter Movement was established on 26 October 1991. Prior to the 1993 elections the National Encounter Party was established as a coalition of the Revolutionary Febrerista Party, the Christian Democratic Party, Asuncion for All and a breakaway faction of the Colorado Party. The elections saw the party receive 17.9% of the national vote, becoming the country's third largest party with nine seats in the Chamber of Deputies and eight in the Senate. Together with the Authentic Radical Liberal Party (PLRA), it held a majority in the Chamber of Deputies opposed to the ruling Colorado Party. Its candidate in the presidential election, Guillermo Caballero Vargas, received 24.1% of the vote. For the 1998 general elections the party formed an alliance with the PLRA named the Democratic Alliance, with the party's President, Carlos Filizzola, providing the allianc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Paraguayan General Election
General elections were held in Paraguay on 20 April 2008. Elections were held for the presidency, 45 senators, 80 representatives, 17 governors and Paraguay's members in the Mercosur Parliament. The presidential election was won by opposition candidate Fernando Lugo of the Patriotic Alliance for Change, who defeated Blanca Ovelar of the long-ruling Colorado Party."Opposition wins Paraguay polls" Al Jazeera, 21 April 2008. The Colorado Party remained the largest in both houses of despite losing several seats. The election ended a 61-year hold on the presidency by the Colorados. The Colorados had held the presidency without interruption since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guasú Front
The Guasú Front ( es, Frente Guasú; ''Guasú'' being the Guarani word for "big", "large" or "great") is a democratic socialist electoral alliance in Paraguay for the general election in 2013. It was formed in 2010 by a merger of the centre-left Patriotic Alliance for Change and the left-wing . It consists of eleven parties, including the Party for a Country of Solidarity, the Tekojoja People's Party. It is led by impeached former president Fernando Lugo, who also ran as a senatorial candidate. Its presidential candidate was Aníbal Carrillo. Electoral history Presidential elections Chamber of Deputies elections Senate elections References External linksGuasú Front's website 2010 establishments in Paraguay Foro de São Paulo Political parties established in 2010 Political party alliances in Paraguay Progressive Alliance Socialist International Paraguay Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Alliance
An electoral alliance (also known as a bipartisan electoral agreement, electoral pact, electoral agreement, electoral coalition or electoral bloc) is an association of political parties or individuals that exists solely to stand in elections. Each of the parties within the alliance has its own policies but chooses temporarily to put aside differences in favour of common goals and ideology in order to pool their voters' support and get elected. On occasion, an electoral alliance may be formed by parties with very different policy goals, which agree to pool resources in order to stop a particular candidate or party from gaining power. Unlike a coalition formed after an election, the partners in an electoral alliance usually do not run candidates against one another but encourage their supporters to vote for candidates from the other members of the alliance. In some agreements with a larger party enjoying a higher degree of success at the polls, the smaller party fields candidate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
