The People's Party (PP) ( es, Partido del Pueblo, PP) was a

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, 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 ''Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico, Partido Po ...

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

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 The New Progressive Party ( es, Partido Nuevo Progresista, PNP) is a political party in Puerto Rico that advocates statehood. The PNP is one of the two major parties in Puerto Rico with significant political strength and currently holds both t ...

(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 Luis Negrón López (April 19, 1909 - September 18, 1991) was a politician from Puerto Rico. Negrón was among the founding members of the Popular Democratic Party ''(PPD)'' and served as Senator and as candidate for Governor of Puerto Rico in ...

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

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. 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

of the PNP (

) and the PPD's defeat in the 1968 general election.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Partido Del Pueblo (Puerto Rico) 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

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