Partido Liberal Radical Ecuatoriano

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The Partido Liberal Radical Ecuatoriano ( Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party ) is one of the oldest parties in Ecuador .

In 1890 the political organization Partido Liberal Nacional was founded in Quito , which was of great importance in the Liberal Revolution under the leadership of Eloy Alfaro . In competition with the Conservative Party of Ecuador or its predecessors, which was ideologically oriented towards Gabriel García Moreno , the Liberal Party was one of the two decisive political forces in the country in the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. The PLRE found its support in the export, trade and banking metropolis of Guayaquil and the surrounding coastal region of the country, while the Conservative Party had its support in the traditional elites of the Andean region around the capital Quito. The most important representatives of the party during this period were after the death of Eloy Alfaros (murdered in 1912) Leonidas Plaza Gutiérrez and Francisco Urbina Jado . Between 1912 and the July Revolution of 1925, the party had four presidents in a row with Plaza, Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno , José Luis Tamayo and Gonzalo Córdova .

The Liberal Party was formally founded in 1925 after the July Revolution as Partido Liberal Radical Ecuatoriano and was the first party to be entered in the newly created party register. Important politicians were Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río and Raúl Clemente Huerta .

Since the 1960s, the PLRE has been severely weakened by a series of splits. From their ranks, the Partido Liberal Popular Revolucionario emerged in 1961 , the Frente Radical Alfarista in 1972 and the Partido Radical Demócrata in 1980 .

In 1984 the PLRE supported León Febres Cordero in the Frente de Reconstrucción Nacional . After that, the importance of the Liberal Party declined, in the parliamentary elections in 2002 it could not achieve the necessary 5% of the vote and was removed from the party register. In 2008 a party of the same name was re-enrolled and re-entered into elections.

References

  1. ↑ Rafael Quintero López, Electores contra partidos en un sistema político de mandos , Quito: Abya-Yala, 2005, Editorial Abya Yala , 2005, ISBN 9978-22-542-0 ( at Google Books ), pp. 65–68.
  2. ↑ Consejo Nacional Electoral, Continúa plazo para la reinscripción de partidos y movimientos políticos  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , December 3, 2008.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.cne.gov.ec  

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