The Legitimist Party (, PL) was a conservative Nicaraguan political party, the first in its country. The power base of the Legitimist Party was in

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. The Legitimists were opposed to the Democrats. After several years of civil war between the Legitimists and the Democrats, a provisional government was established in June 1857 which had as its joint leaders the Legitimist Tomás Martínez and the Democrat Máximo Jerez. The Nicaraguan Conservative Party defines itself as a continuation of the Legitimist Party and traces its history back to PL's foundation in 1823.

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