Word: partido
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Robles says that the key to Arias' triumph as the Partido de Liberacion de National (PLN) candidate, which came after aggressive inter-party contention in the primary, was his idea that "technologija" had to be brought into the government. His championing of professionalism was a subtle way of emphasizing the same theme, that the days of the older political establishment had been eclipsed by a younger generation...
...seemed assured of a Senate seat. Former Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, 63, the leader of the opposition Grand Alliance for Democracy (G.A.D.), fell just shy of the mark in the early counting, but could win a Senate seat once the official tally is completed. The radically left Partido ng Bayan (People's Party), formed only last year, entered elective politics for the first time and apparently won no seats...
...democratization of Peru, he spoke "passable Spanish," he says. After six months in the country as part of a year off from Harvard, he spoke Spanish, had been through a few mudslides, was trapped in a village and had gone through an earthquake--all for research on the Partido Aprista Peruano (PAP), the largest political party in Peru and the most likely victor in the upcoming elections...
...resulting thesis for the Government Department analyzed the 60-year history of the Partido, a radical social democratic party, as a case study of the problems of democratizing Latin America. Utilizing field research and documents collected in Peru. Adams analyzed and update work on the party. The PAP is the largest party in Peru though it has never come into power. The faction is likely to gain power in the elections in 1985, but Adams is not optimistic about the chances for democracy in Peru. "Any part of its program that would be objectionable has been taken out," he says...
...fact-finding tour which was sponsored by the Partido Liberal Independiente--a Nicaraguan party opposed to the Sandinsta regime--met with the ministers of housing. Health, Education, and Labor as well as the leaders of various opposition parties, civil activists, and the archbishop of Nicuragua. The delegation was given permission to travel freely in all parts of the country, Spalter said...