Revolutionary Febrerista Party
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Revolutionary Febrerista Party Partido Revolucionario Febrerista | |
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| President | Josefina Duarte |
| Founder | Rafael Franco |
| Founded | 1951 |
| Headquarters | Casa del Pueblo, Manduvirá Nº 522 Asunción, Paraguay |
| Ideology | Left-wing nationalism Democratic socialism[1] Environmentalism Indigenismo |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| Colours | Green |
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| Partido Revolucionario Febrerista | |
The Revolutionary Febrerista Party (Template:Lang-es, PRF) is a democratic socialist party of Paraguay.
History
The party was established on 11 December 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and 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.[2] 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 Chamber of Deputies.
After 1968 the party did not contest another national election until the overthrow of the Stroessner regime in 1989. In the elections that year they won two seats in the Chamber of Deputies. In the 1991 Constitutional Assembly elections they won a single seat. For the 1993 elections it was part of the National Encounter Party coalition,[3] which finished third. The party ran alone in the 1998 elections, but failed to win a seat. They also failed to win a seat in the 2003 elections. For the 2008 elections the party was part of the Patriotic Alliance for Change, which won two seats.
Electoral history
Presidential elections
| Election | Party candidate | Votes | % | Result |
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| 1968 | Carlos Caballero Gatti | 16,871 | 2.6% | Lost 
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| 1989 | Fernando Antonio Vera Sánchez | 11,007 | 0.95% | Lost
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| 1993 | None
(endorsed Guillermo Caballero Vargas) |
262,407 | 24.39% | Lost
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| 1998 | Luis Alberto Campos Doria | 8,139 | 0.51% | Lost
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| 2008 | None
(endorsed Fernando Lugo) |
764,968 | 41.20% | Elected 
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Chamber of Deputies elections
| Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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| 1968 | 16,871 | 2.6% | 1 / 60
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| 1989 | 23,815 | 2.1% | 2 / 72
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2
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| 1993 | 199,053
(as part of NEP) |
17.7% | 9 / 80
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7
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| 1998 | 20,121 | 1.3% | 0 / 80
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 9
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| 2003 | 11,542 | 0.8% | 0 / 80
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| 2008 | 520 | 0.03% | 0 / 80
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| 2018 | 15,169 | 0.64% | 0 / 80
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Senate elections
| Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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| 1968 | Not released | Not released | 0 / 30
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| 1993 | 203,213
(as part of NEP) |
17.9% | 8 / 45
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8
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| 1998 | 16,667 | 1.1% | 0 / 45
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8
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| 2003 | 10,202 | 0.7% | 0 / 45
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| 2018 | 14,332 | 0.61% | 0 / 45
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References
- ^ Busky, Donald F. (2000), Democratic Socialism: A Global Survey, Praeger Publishers, p. 195
- ^ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p416 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
- ^ Nohlen, p427
| Represented in Congress | |
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| Unrepresented | |
| Defunct | |
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