Workers' Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores, PRT) was a Panamanian political party. The PRT was created in October 1983. Prior to the 1984 balloting, it joined with a number of

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organizations in a coalition styled the United People's Electoral Front (FREPU), which neither the

People’s Party of Panama The People's Party of Panama (, PPP) is an unregistered communist party in Panama. It was founded on 4 April 1930 as the Communist Party of Panama (''Partido Comunista de Panamá'', PCP), after Panamanian communists broke away from the Labour Pa ...

or the Workers' Socialist Party chose to join. “This

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organization criticized but supported the

Manuel Noriega Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno ( , ; February 11, 1934 – May 29, 2017) was a Panamanian dictator and military officer who was the ''de facto'' List of heads of state of Panama, ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989. He never officially serv ...

regime and urged it to follow the nationalist policies of the

Omar Torrijos Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera (February 13, 1929 – July 31, 1981) was the Panamanian military leader of Panama, as well as the Commander of the Panamanian National Guard from 1968 to his death in 1981. Torrijos was never officially ...

government, especially the building of popular democracy. Led by Graciela Dixon the PRT encouraged the government to strengthen the role of the masses in the political process”. Political Parties of the Americas, 1980s to 1990s: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies. Ed. by Charles D. Ameringer. Greenwood Press. 1992. Pp. 482. The PRT vehemently opposed the

-led National Democratic Union coalition in 1984 and ran its own candidate, José Renán Esquivel, for president. The PNP was abolished by the Electoral Tribunal in November 1984.

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{{Reflist Defunct political parties in Panama Political parties established in 1983