Partido Liberal Constitucionalista

The Partido Liberal Constitucionalista (PLC) is a liberal party in Nicaragua. It was founded in 1984 as the successor organization of the Partido Liberal Nacionalista , which the Somoza clan used as a vehicle for its dictatorship. The party's history indicates the Movimiento Liberal Constitucionalista (MLC) of Ramiro Sacasa Guerrero (a labor minister under Anastasio Somoza García ) as the predecessor organization . She participated in the Unión Nacional Opositora coalition, whose joint presidential candidate on February 25, 1990, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro . In the 1996 presidential elections, party member Arnoldo Alemán , an alliance organized by Alianza Liberal .

In the parliamentary elections in Nicaragua on November 4, 2001, the Partido Liberal Constitucionalista won 53.2% of the vote and 47 of the 90 seats in the Asamblea Nacional de Nicaragua . The PLC had a majority in the Asamblea Nacional de Nicaragua from 2000 to 2007 . As a member of the Partido Liberal Constitucionalista , Enrique Bolaños Geyer won 56.3% of the vote in the 2001 presidential election. Until 2005 the PLC was a member of the Liberal International . The party leader is Jorge Castillo Quant.

Alianza por la República

In 2004 Enrique Bolaños Geyer founded the Alianza por la República with dissidents from the PLC and the Partido Conservador .

Alianza Liberal Nicaraguense

In 2006 Eduardo Montealegre and other dissidents from the PLC founded the Alianza Liberal Nicaragüense .

Pacto

The party honorary chairman of the PLC Arnoldo Alemán has agreed with Daniel Ortega that 35% of the votes cast are sufficient to be elected President of the Republic of Nicaragua. Through the Pacto of Arnoldo Alemán and Daniel Ortega, the members of the Partido Liberal Constitucionalista are involved in an intrasparent power calculation.