Revolutionary Febrerista Party
Partido Revolucionario Febrerista
PresidentJosefina Duarte
FounderRafael Franco
Founded11 December 1951
HeadquartersCasa del Pueblo, Manduvirá Nº 522
Asunción, Paraguay
IdeologySocial democracy
Left-wing nationalism
Progressivism
Indigenismo
Historical:
Democratic socialism[1]
Political positionCentre-left
Historical:
Left-wing
National affiliationConcertación
ColoursGreen
Party flag
Website
Partido Revolucionario Febrerista

The Revolutionary Febrerista Party (Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Febrerista, PRF) is a democratic socialist party of Paraguay. It was established in 1951 by Rafael Franco, President of Paraguay from the February Revolution of 1936 until his overthrow in August 1937.

History

In 1936, Rafael Franco came to power in the February Revolution.[2] A year and a half later, he was overthrown in a coup that brought the Liberal Party's Félix Paiva to power and went into exile. Franco established the Revolutionary Febrerista Party, named after the revolution, on 11 December 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The party was initially banned in Paraguay, which was under a Colorado Party regime at the time. The party was legalised in 1964 as it was no longer deemed to be a threat to President Alfredo Stroessner.[3] In the 1967 Constitutional Assembly elections, it won three of the 120 seats. In the general elections the following year, the party failed to win a Senate seat but won one seat in the Chamber of Deputies.

After 1968, the party did not contest another national election until the overthrow of the Stroessner regime in 1989. In the elections that year, they won two seats in the Chamber of Deputies. In the 1991 Constitutional Assembly elections, they won a single seat. For the 1993 elections, it was part of the National Encounter Party coalition,[4] which finished third. The party ran alone in the 1998 elections but failed to win a seat. They also failed to win a seat in the 2003 elections. For the 2008 elections, the party was part of the Patriotic Alliance for Change, which won two seats.

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Election Party candidate Votes % Result
1968 Carlos Caballero Gatti 16,871 2.6% Lost Red X
1989 Fernando Antonio Vera Sánchez 11,007 0.95% Lost Red X
1993 None

(endorsed Guillermo Caballero Vargas)

 262,407 24.39% Lost Red X
1998 Luis Alberto Campos Doria 8,139 0.51% Lost Red X
2008 None

(endorsed Fernando Lugo)

 764,968 41.20% Elected Green tick

Chamber of Deputies elections

Chamber of Deputies
Election Votes % Seats +/–
1968 16,871 2.6%
1 / 60
 Increase 1
1989 23,815 2.1%
2 / 72
 Increase 2
1993 199,053

(as part of NEP)

 17.7%
9 / 80
 Increase 7
1998 20,121 1.3%
0 / 80
 Decrease 9
2003 11,542 0.8%
0 / 80
 Steady
2008 520 0.03%
0 / 80
 Steady
2018 15,169 0.64%
0 / 80
 Steady

Senate elections

Senate
Election Votes % Seats +/–
1968 Not released Not released
0 / 30
 Steady
1993 203,213

(as part of NEP)

 17.9%
8 / 45
 Increase 8
1998 16,667 1.1%
0 / 45
 Decrease 8
2003 10,202 0.7%
0 / 45
 Steady
2018 14,332 0.61%
0 / 45
 Steady

References

  1. ↑ Busky, Donald F. (2000), Democratic Socialism: A Global Survey, Praeger Publishers, p. 195, ISBN 9780275968861
  2. ↑ Bethell, Leslie (1984). The Cambridge History of Latin America. Cambridge University Press. p. 236. ISBN 978-0-521-26652-9.
  3. ↑ Nohlen 2005, p. 416.
  4. ↑ Nohlen 2005, p. 427.

Bibliography

  • Nohlen, Dieter (2005). Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II. ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3.

Further reading

  • Lewis, Paul H. (1968). The Politics of Exile, Paraguay's Febrerista Party. University of North Carolina Press.
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