The Traditional Conservative Party (
Spanish
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: ''Partido Conservador Tradicionalista, PCT''), was a
Nicaragua
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest Sovereign state, country in Central America, comprising . With a population of 7,142,529 as of 2024, it is the third-most populous country in Central America aft ...
n political party founded in the first half of the 19th century as the Conservative Party.
History
In 1950,
Emiliano Chamorro, leader of the PCT and
Anastasio Somoza García
Anastasio Somoza García (1 February 1896 – 29 September 1956) was the leader of Nicaragua from 1936 until his assassination in 1956. He was officially the 21st President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1937 to 1 May 1947 and from 21 May 1950 unt ...
, leader of the
liberals, signed the ''Pacto de los Generales'', thus laying the basis for a new political coalition. This agreement ensured a victory for Somoza in the
1950 elections and preserved the division of legislative seats between the majority and minority parties in the elections with the losing party always guaranteed one-third of the seats.
The PCT broke up with Somoza in 1956 and joined the
Independent Liberal Party, and the
National Renovation Party to form an opposition movement called the
Defensive Front of the Republic (FDR), in order to frustrate Anastasio Somoza’s plan to be reelected president in 1957.
Evidence of massive impending fraud caused the Traditional Conservative Party to abandon its loyalist stance of the previous decade and to boycott the 1963 elections, thereby raising the party's credibility among the public at large.
A few years later, the PCT became part of the
National Opposition Union under the leadership of
Fernando Agüero.
References
Conservative parties in Nicaragua
Defunct political parties in Nicaragua
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