Popular Action Party (Panama)

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Popular Action Party (in Spanish: Partido de Acción Popular, PAPO) was a Panamanian political party.

Established by urban, middle-class social democrats in 1982. [1] “In July 1982 it joined a number of other small parties, including the PDC, in branding the "deposition" of President Aristides Royo by the National Guard as "going beyond the legal and institutional frameworks set up by the National Guard itself”. [2] The PAPO vehemently opposed the Manuel Noriega-led coalition in the 1984 Panamanian general election and ran its own candidate, , for president. [3] In an incident that he blamed on the military, PAPO leader Zúñiga was kidnapped and beaten in August 1984. Three months later the party was legally deregistered. [4]

References[]

  1. ^ Political Parties of the Americas, 1980s to 1990s: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies. Ed. by Charles D. Ameringer. Greenwood Press. 1992. Pp. 482.
  2. ^ Political Handbook of the world, 1993. New York, 1993. Pp. 637.
  3. ^ Political Parties of the Americas, 1980s to 1990s: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies. Ed. by Charles D. Ameringer. Greenwood Press. 1992. Pp. 482.
  4. ^ Political Handbook of the world, 1993. New York, 1993. Pp. 637.
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