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The
Panameñista Party (
Spanish:
Partido Panameñista) is a
Panamanian
political party.
The party is the second-oldest in Panama. It was founded in 1932 by
Harmodio Arias, a prominent newspaper publisher, as the
National Revolutionary Party. Its membership largely came from
Patriotic Communal Action, a nationalist organization that opposed the large amount of
American influence in Panama which had led a coup in
1930.
In
1936, Harmodio's younger brother,
Arnulfo, took control of the party. In the early 1930s, he'd begun promoting a nationalist doctrine called "Panameñismo" (Panamanianism), and this became the basis for the party. It was renamed the Panameñista Party in the mid-1940s.
The party was dominated by
Arnulfo Arias, who was elected
president of Panama three times and deposed by the military each time. After his third ouster, in
1968, a small dissident group broke with
Arias to support the military regime of
Omar Torrijos. In return, the
Torrijos regime allowed the dissidents to take over the party's registration. The main body, however, remained with
Arias and renamed itself the
Authentic Panameñista Party. Known by its Spanish acronym, "PPA," it was one of the leading opponents to
Manuel Noriega.
Arnulfo Arias was to have been the party's candidate for president in
1989, but he died in
1988. He was succeeded as party leader by his widow,
Mireya Moscoso. For the 1989 elections, the party was the main component of an anti-
Noriega coalition, with the PPA's
Guillermo Endara as the coalition's presidential candidate. He won by a 3-to-1 margin over
Noriega's stand-in, but those elections were nullified by
Noriega.
Noriega was
overthrown a few months later, and
Endara took over as president.
In
1990, the party was renamed the
Arnulfista Party in its longtime leader's honor; though party members had been called "Arnulfistas" for many years. It was the main opposition party to the
PRD administration of
Ernesto Pérez Balladares, regaining the presidency in
1999 under
Moscoso.
At the last
legislative elections, 2 May 2004, the party won 19.2 % of the popular vote and 17 out of 78 seats. In presidential elections held the same day, its candidate,
José Miguel Alemán, finished a poor third, with 16.4% of the vote.
The party changed its name back to the old
Panameñista Party in
2005.
It is Panama's second largest political party with over 250,000 members.
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