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The Popular Nationalist Party (Partido Nacionalista Popular, PNP) was a Panamanian centrist political party.

Panama Republic in Central America

Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Central America, bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The capital and largest city is Panama City, whose metropolitan area is home to nearly half the country's 4 million people.

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The PNP, which grew out of the university student movement of the 1970s and 1980s, [1] was created in 1983 to back the presidential candidacy of Rubén Darío Paredes. [2] In August 1983, Paredes was nominated as the Democratic Revolutionary Party candidate for president. In the face of opposition to his candidacy, he announced his withdrawal from politics in September, but later ran as a nominee of the PNP. [3] Paredes ran a distant third in the 1984 election.

Rubén Darío Paredes del Río was a Panamanian army officer and the military ruler of Panama from 1982 to 1983.

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The PNP was abolished by the Electoral Tribunal in November 1984.

The PNP re-registered on 12 January 1994. [4] It joined the Opposition Action Alliance coalition behind the official candidate Alberto Vallarino in 1999. [5] The PNP was abolished again by the Electoral Tribunal on 17 May 1999. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Envio: Revista mensual de análisis de Nicaragua y Centroamérica, 215, June 1999
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Political Handbook of the world, 1993. New York, 1993. Pp. 637.
  4. ↑ Electoral Tribunal Archived 2010-01-19 at the Wayback Machine .
  5. ↑ Envio: Revista mensual de análisis de Nicaragua y Centroamérica, 215, June 1999
  6. ↑ Electoral Tribunal Archived 2010-01-19 at the Wayback Machine .
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