Word: nacionalista
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Philippine political paralysis, and saw a dictatorship as one way of getting things done. Deep social inequalities and high-level corruption have made the country's 26-year experiment with democracy a fitful experience at best. With Congress mired in battles among bickering factions of the ruling Nacionalista Party, the government has been virtually immobilized-unable to pass, among other things, the land-reform program that Marcos simply decreed last week...
...frighten the voters away from the polls; 80% of the qualified electorate cast ballots. Nor did voters take seriously President Ferdinand Marcos' claims that Liberal-aided Communist insurgents were about to overthrow the government. In a stinging personal defeat for Marcos and a severe setback for his ruling Nacionalista Party, the voters gave the underdog Liberals six of the eight contested Senate seats-the only national offices at stake -as well as the Manila mayoralty. Marcos' party did considerably better in some 15,000 local and provincial races, but many of them were uncontested...