Revolutionary Febrerista Party
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Revolutionary Febrerista Party Partido Revolucionario Febrerista | |
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Founder | Rafael Franco |
Founded | 11 December 1951 |
Headquarters | Casa del Pueblo, Manduvirá Nº 522 Asunción, Paraguay |
Ideology | Social democracy Left-wing nationalism Market socialism Progressivism Environmentalism Indigenismo Historical: Democratic socialism[1] |
Political position | Centre-left Historical: Left-wing |
Colours | Green |
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Partido Revolucionario Febrerista | |
The Revolutionary Febrerista Party (Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Febrerista, PRF) is a democratic socialist party of Paraguay. It was established in 1951 by Rafael Franco, President of Paraguay from the February Revolution of 1936 until his overthrow in August 1937.
History[]
In 1936, Rafael Franco came to power in the February Revolution.[2] A year and a half later, he was overthrown in a coup that brought the Liberal Party's Félix Paiva to power and went into exile. Franco established the Revolutionary Febrerista Party, named after the revolution, on 11 December 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The party was initially banned in Paraguay, which was under a Colorado Party regime at the time. The party was legalised in 1964 as it was no longer deemed to be a threat to President Alfredo Stroessner.[3] In the 1967 Constitutional Assembly elections, it won three of the 120 seats. In the general elections the following year, the party failed to win a Senate seat but won one seat in the Chamber of Deputies.
After 1968, the party did not contest another national election until the overthrow of the Stroessner regime in 1989. In the elections that year, they won two seats in the Chamber of Deputies. In the 1991 Constitutional Assembly elections, they won a single seat. For the 1993 elections, it was part of the National Encounter Party coalition,[4] which finished third. The party ran alone in the 1998 elections but failed to win a seat. They also failed to win a seat in the 2003 elections. For the 2008 elections, the party was part of the Patriotic Alliance for Change, which won two seats.
For a history of the movement and party up to 1967, see Paul H. Lewis' The Politics of Exile, Paraguay's Febrerista Party (University of North Carolina Press, 1968).
Electoral history[]
Presidential elections[]
Election | Party candidate | Votes | % | Result |
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1968 | Carlos Caballero Gatti | 16,871 | 2.6% | Lost ![]() |
1989 | Fernando Antonio Vera Sánchez | 11,007 | 0.95% | Lost ![]() |
1993 | None
(endorsed Guillermo Caballero Vargas) |
262,407 | 24.39% | Lost ![]() |
1998 | Luis Alberto Campos Doria | 8,139 | 0.51% | Lost ![]() |
2008 | None
(endorsed Fernando Lugo) |
764,968 | 41.20% | Elected ![]() |
Chamber of Deputies elections[]
Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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1968 | 16,871 | 2.6% | 1 / 60
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1989 | 23,815 | 2.1% | 2 / 72
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1993 | 199,053
(as part of NEP) |
17.7% | 9 / 80
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1998 | 20,121 | 1.3% | 0 / 80
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2003 | 11,542 | 0.8% | 0 / 80
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2008 | 520 | 0.03% | 0 / 80
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2018 | 15,169 | 0.64% | 0 / 80
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Senate elections[]
Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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1968 | Not released | Not released | 0 / 30
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1993 | 203,213
(as part of NEP) |
17.9% | 8 / 45
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1998 | 16,667 | 1.1% | 0 / 45
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2003 | 10,202 | 0.7% | 0 / 45
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2018 | 14,332 | 0.61% | 0 / 45
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References[]
- ^ Busky, Donald F. (2000), Democratic Socialism: A Global Survey, Praeger Publishers, p. 195, ISBN 9780275968861
- ^ Bethell, Leslie (1984). The Cambridge History of Latin America. Cambridge University Press. p. 236. ISBN 978-0-521-26652-9.
- ^ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p416 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
- ^ Nohlen, p427
- Formerly banned socialist parties
- Political parties established in 1951
- Political parties in Paraguay
- Socialism in Paraguay
- Socialist International
- 1951 establishments in Paraguay