The Solidarity Party () was a
political party
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in
Panama
Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and ...
that merged with the National Liberal Party () and formed the new
Patriotic Union Party.
At the
legislative
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elections
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, 2 May 2004, the party won 15.7% of the popular vote and 9 out of 78 seats.
Guillermo Endara
Guillermo David Endara Galimany (May 12, 1936 – September 28, 2009) was a Panamanian politician who served as the president of Panama from 1989 to 1994.
Raised in a family allied to Panameñista Party founder Arnulfo Arias, Endara attend ...
on the same day, at the presidential election, won 30.9% of the vote. Endara subsequently set up his own party, the
Moral Vanguard of the Fatherland, to contest the
2009 elections.
Defunct political parties in Panama
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