Authentic Radical Liberal Party
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Authentic Radical Liberal Party Partido Liberal Radical Auténtico | |
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President | Efraín Alegre |
Founded | 1978 |
Split from | Liberal Party Radical Liberal Party |
Headquarters | Iturbe 936 c/ Manuel Domínguez, Asunción |
Ideology | Liberalism Civic nationalism |
Political position | Centre |
National affiliation | Concertación |
International affiliation | Liberal International[1] |
Chamber of Deputies | 17 / 80 |
Senate | 13 / 45 |
Governors | 3 / 17 |
Party flag | |
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http://www.plra.org.py/ | |
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The Authentic Radical Liberal Party (Spanish: 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.[2]
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 left-wing political parties. At the 2008 legislative elections, the party won 26 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 14 seats in the Senate. They were approximately tied with the Colorados in the number of seats won in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.
Following the June 2012 impeachment of Fernando Lugo, the governing alliance fell apart, and Vice-President Federico Franco took over the presidency, thus exercising the first all-PLRA government in Paraguay. The PLRA has remained in opposition since 2013.
Electoral history
Presidential elections
Election | Party candidate | Votes | % | Result |
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1989 | Domingo Laíno | 241,829 | 20.98% | Lost |
1993 | 357,164 | 33.20% | Lost | |
1998 | 703,379 | 43.88% | Lost | |
2003 | Julio César Franco | 370,348 | 24.7% | Lost |
2008 | Supported Fernando Lugo (PDC) | 766,502 | 42.40% | Elected |
2013 | Efraín Alegre | 889,451 | 39.05% | Lost |
2018 | 1,110,464 | 45.08% | Lost |
Vice presidential election
Election | Party candidate | Votes | % | Result |
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2000 | Julio César Franco | 597,431 | 49.6% | Elected |
Chamber of Deputies elections
Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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1989 | 229,329 | 20.2% | 21 / 72
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21 |
1993 | 414,208 | 36.8% | 33 / 80
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12 |
1998 | 681,917
(as part of Democratic Alliance) |
42.8% | 35 / 80
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7 |
2003 | 379,066 | 25.7% | 21 / 80
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14 |
2008 | 500,040 | 28.27% | 27 / 80
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6 |
2013 | 656,301 | 29.25% | 27 / 80
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2018 | 420,821 | 17.74% | 17 / 80
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10 |
Senate elections
Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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1993 | 409,728 | 36.2% | 17 / 45
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17 |
1998 | 661,764
(as part of Democratic Alliance) |
42.1% | 20 / 45
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5 |
2003 | 374,854 | 25.4% | 12 / 45
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8 |
2008 | 507,413 | 28.92% | 14 / 45
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2 |
2013 | 588,054 | 26.17% | 13 / 45
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1 |
2018 | 570,205 | 24.18% | 13 / 45
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Notes
The Democratic Alliance was an alliance of the Authentic Radical Liberal Party and the National Encounter Party
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-05-25. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), Liberal International, www.liberal-international.org. - ^ Silva, Tamy Amorim da (2016). Memórias sobre uma Dama Valente: Carmen de Lara Castro e a Ditadura Stronista (1967–1989) [Memories of a valiant woman: Carmen de Lara Castro and the Stronista Dictatorship (1967-1989)] (PDF) (master's degree) (in Portuguese). Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. p. 169. Retrieved 8 September 2017.