Partido Liberal Independiente
The Partido Liberal Independiente (PLI) is a center-right political party in Nicaragua . It was founded in 1944 by dissidents from the Partido Liberal Nacionalista (PLN) state party of the Somoza clan . Your flag bears a white five-pointed star against a red background.
1944 founding of the party
In 1944, students from the Universidad Central de Managua protested against the re-election of Anastasio Somoza García as president. On March 9, 1944, the members of the PLN: Manuel Cordero Reyes, Roberto González Dubón, Carlos Morales, Gerónimo Ramírez Brown (1939-1944 Minister of Public Affairs) and Carlos Pasos founded the PLI. On February 5, 1947, presidential elections were held, in which Doctor Enoc Aguado, the joint candidate of PLI and Partido Conservador Republicano, received the highest number of votes. Doctor Leonardo Argüello Barreto , the candidate of the PLN, became president by fraud. The people hastily whistled Somoza, now the caiman is coming . But Somoza had the puppets swapped and on May 26, 1944, Benjamin Lacayo Sacasa took office in the Palacio Nacional. Benjamin Lacayo Sacasa resigned on August 15, 1944 and was replaced by Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes . Mariano Argüello Vargas acted as vice-president.
Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes died in Philadelphia on May 6, 1950, the same day Parliament appointed Somoza Garcia as President from March 1, 1951.
1956 Assassination attempt on Somoza Garcia
On September 21, 1956, the PLN had invited to an electoral convention to nominate Anastasio Somoza García as a presidential candidate for the re-election of Anastasio Somoza García for the period of office 1957-1963 to León (Nicaragua) in the Casa del Obrero . PLI member Rigoberto López Pérez was among the guests . He fired from a Smith & Wesson .38 & .32 double action , five shots at Anastasio Somoza García. Rigoberto López Pérez was immediately murdered. Anastasio Somoza García was injured by four gunshots and was taken to the San Vicente de León Hospital, then by helicopter to the General de Managua Hospital, from where he was taken to the Gorgas Hospital in the Panama Canal Zone , where he died on the morning of September 29, 1956. He was followed by his sons Luis Somoza Debayle as President and Anastasio Somoza Debayle as Commander in Chief of the Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua . The suppression of the PLI started immediately, and some members of the PLI , the Partido Conservador and socialists were arrested on the night of the attack . At the time of the attack, the PLI was roughly the third largest political party in Nicaragua.
1966 Unión Nacional Opositora
The alliance Unión Nacional Opositora (UNO) consists of:
- Partido Conservador de Nicaragua (PCN),
- Partido Liberal Independiente (PLI),
- Partido Social Cristiano (PSCN),
- Partido Socialista Nicaragüense (PSN) and the
- Partido Comunista de Nicaragua (PC de N).
1966 put Fernando Agüero Rocha as a common candidate for the presidency for the 1967 elections. A joint demonstration by this alliance in Managua on January 22, 1967 was put down with the massacre on Avenida Roosevelt . The joint presidential candidate Agüero signed a pact with Somoza on March 28, 1967 in the Teatro Rubén Darío , became a member of the Junta Nacional de Gobierno (JNG) from May 1, 1972 to December 1, 1974 and allowed Anastasio Somoza Debayle to be re-elected to the president, which is why he was viewed as a traitor in his party.
1984 elections
The PLI supported the FSLN guerrillas in the overthrow of the Somoza regime from 1978 to 1979. On November 4, 1984, the first parliamentary elections to Somoza took place.
- The FSLN received 735,967 votes, which was 62.89%.
- The Partido Conservador Demócrata de Nicaragua (PCDN) received 154,327 votes, which was 13.18%.
- The Partido Liberal Independiente received 105,560 votes, which corresponded to 9.02%.
- The Partido Socialista Nicaragüense (PSN), Partido Social Cristiano (PSC), Partido Popular Social Cristiano (PPSC) and Movimiento de Acción Popular Marxista Leninista (MAP-ML)
received a total of 103,079 votes, which corresponds to 6.64%.
1990 Unión Nacional Opositora
The alliance Unión Nacional Opositora (UNO) consists of:
- Partido Conservador de Nicaragua PCN,
- Alianza Popular Conservadora APC,
- Acción Nacional Conservadora ANC,
- Movimiento Democrático Nicaragüense MDN,
- Partido de Acción Nacional PAN,
- Partido Liberal Independiente PLI,
- Partido Liberal Constitucionalista PLC,
- Partido Integracionalista Centroamericano PIAC,
- Partido Popular Social Cristiano PPSC,
- Partido Social Demócrata PSD,
- Unión Demócrata Cristiana UDC,
- Movimiento de Acción Popular Marxista Leninista MAP-ML,
- Partido Socialista Nicaragüense PSN y
- Partido Comunista de Nicaragua PC de N.
1989, for the elections on February 25, 1990, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro as a common candidate for the presidency.
The alliance UNO happened to receive the first column on the ballot paper and the FSLN the fifth column on the ballot paper, for the presidency, parliament and local councils.
- Violeta Barrios de Chamorro received 777,522 votes, which was 54%
- Daniel Ortega received 579,886 votes, which was 40%.
- the Movimiento de Unidad Revolucionaria MUR received 16,751 votes, corresponding to 1.10%.
- the remaining parties received 28,816 votes, equivalent to 1.9%.
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro took office on April 25, 1990 at the Estadio Nacional Denis Martínez , which was then Estadio Rigoberto López Pérez . Virgilio Godoy Reyes of the PLI became its vice-president .
The PLI was not a member of the Alianza Liberal, the electoral alliance of Arnoldo Alemán . In 1996, the PLI's presidential candidate was Virgilio Godoy Reyes.
In 1999 Julia Mena was chairwoman of the PLI
In 2006, Eduardo Montealegre was the joint presidential candidate of PLI and the Alianza Liberal Nicaragüense .
Individual evidence
- ^ Leslie Bethell, The Cambridge History of Latin America , Cambridge University Press, 1990, p. 337.
- ↑ envio June 1996 LIBERAL
- ↑ El Nuevo Diario , 20 de Noviembre de 1999 Partidos liberales piden no confundirlos con PLC ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
