The Peace and Freedom Party (PFP) is a left-wing political party with affiliates and former members in more than a dozen American states,including California,Colorado,Florida,Hawaii,Indiana and Utah,but none now have ballot status besides California. Its first candidates appeared on the 1966 New York ballot. The Peace and Freedom Party of California was organized in early 1967,gathering over 103,000 registrants which qualified its ballot status in January 1968 under the California Secretary of State Report of Registration.
The Reform Party of the United States of America (RPUSA),generally known as the Reform Party USA or the Reform Party,is a centrist political party in the United States,founded in 1995 by Ross Perot.
Óscar Nicanor Duarte Frutos is a Paraguayan politician who served as President of Paraguay from 2003 to 2008. In 2013,President Horacio Cartes appointed Duarte as Ambassador to Argentina,a diplomatic posting he held from 2013 until 2016. Duarte currently holds the title of Senator for life.
The 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election,held on November 4,2008. The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama,the junior senator from Illinois,and Joe Biden,the senior senator from Delaware,defeated the Republican ticket of John McCain,the senior senator from Arizona,and Sarah Palin,the governor of Alaska. Obama became the first African American to be elected to the presidency,as well as being only the third sitting United States senator elected president,joining Warren G. Harding and John F. Kennedy. Meanwhile,this was only the second successful all-senator ticket since the 1960 election and is the only election where both major party nominees were sitting senators. This was the first election since 1952 in which neither the incumbent president nor vice president was on the ballot.
The National Republican Association –Colorado Party is a conservative political party in Paraguay,founded on 11 September 1887 by Bernardino Caballero. Since 1947,the Colorado party has been dominant in Paraguayan politics,ruling as the only legal party between 1947 and 1962,and has controlled the presidency since 1948 notwithstanding a brief interruption between 2008 and 2013. With almost 2 million members,it is the largest political party in the country.
Lino César Oviedo Silva was the leader of the National Union of Ethical Citizens,which split from the Colorado Party in 2002.
Earl Farwell Dodge Jr. was an American politician who served as the Prohibition Party's chairman and presidential candidate from the 1984 to 2000 presidential elections and later ran with the nomination of his own faction during the 2004 presidential election.
In the United States Electoral College,a faithless elector is an elector who does not vote for the candidates for U.S. President and U.S. Vice President for whom the elector had pledged to vote,and instead votes for another person for one or both offices or abstains from voting. As part of United States presidential elections,each state selects the method by which its electors are to be selected,which in modern times has been based on a popular vote in most states,and generally requires its electors to have pledged to vote for the candidates of their party if appointed. A pledged elector is only considered a faithless elector by breaking their pledge;unpledged electors have no pledge to break. The consequences of an elector voting in a way inconsistent with their pledge vary from state to state.
The National Union of Ethical Citizens is a right-wing populist political party in Paraguay.
The National Encounter Party is a political party in Paraguay.
General elections were held in Paraguay on 20 April 2008. Elections were held for the presidency,45 senators,80 representatives,17 governors and Paraguay's members in the Mercosur Parliament.
Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez is a Paraguayan politician and laicized Catholic bishop who was President of Paraguay from 2008 to 2012. Previously,he was a Roman Catholic priest and bishop,serving as Bishop of the Diocese of San Pedro from 1994 to 2005. He was elected as president in 2008,an election that ended 61 years of rule by the Colorado Party.
The 2008 Libertarian National Convention was held from May 22 to May 26,2008,at the Sheraton Hotel in Denver,Colorado. The delegates at the convention,on behalf of the U.S. Libertarian Party,nominated Bob Barr for president and Wayne Allyn Root for vice president in the 2008 presidential election. The convention was televised nationally on C-SPAN.
Bamir Myrteza Topi is an Albanian diplomat and politician. He also was the president of Albania from July 2007 to July 2012.
Julio César Ramón Franco Gómez is a Paraguayan politician of the Authentic Radical Liberal Party. He was vice president from 2000 to 2002,served as senator from 1998 to 2003,and was presidential candidate for the Authentic Radical Liberal Party in the 2003 election,losing to Nicanor Duarte of the Colorado Party. He was elected to the Senate again in 2008.
Blanca Margarita Ovelar de Duarte is a Paraguayan politician and former Minister of Education. She was the Colorado Party's nominee for president in the April 2008 presidential election,in which she was defeated.
General elections were held in Paraguay on 27 April 2003. The presidential elections were won by Nicanor Duarte of the Colorado Party,who received 38.3% of the vote. In the Congressional elections,the Colorado Party won 37 of the 80 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 16 of the 45 seats in the Senate. Voter turnout was 64.3% in the presidential election,64.2% in the Senate election and 64.1% in the Chamber of Deputies election.
Francisco Arcidio Oviedo Brítez is a Paraguayan politician from the Colorado Party. He served as 27th Vice President of Paraguay from 21 November 2007 to 15 August 2008.
The Marzo paraguayo was a political crisis that occurred in Paraguay because of the assassination of the then-Vice President Luis María Argaña on 23 March 1999. The opposition blamed the then-President,Raúl Cubas Grau,and also the strongman of Paraguayan politics of that time,Lino Oviedo,for the assassination. Argaña's assassination provoked a series of demonstrations by opponents and supporters to Oviedo and the Cubas government,which culminated in clashes in which seven demonstrators opposed to the government died,which resulted in the resignation of Cubas from the presidency.
