National Patriotic Coalition
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National Patriotic Coalition
Coalición Patriótica Nacional |
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|---|---|
| Founded | 1952 |
| Dissolved | 1981 |
| Merged into | Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement |
| Headquarters | Panama City, Panama |
| Ideology |
Panamanian nationalism Conservatism Castroism (tendencies) |
| Political position |
Centre-right to Right-wing |
The National Patriotic Coalition (in Spanish: Coalición Patriótica Nacional, CPN) was a Panamanian conservative nationalist political party.
It was founded in advance of the election of 1952 to support the presidential aspirations of Colonel José Antonio Remón Cantera, head of the National Police. Its six original members were the Renewal Party (PREN), Liberal Party “del Matadero” (PL), National Revolutionary Party (PNR), Authentic Revolutionary Party (PRA), Popular Union Party (PUP) and Patriotic Youth Front (FJP). In 1953 the CPN, a coalition of several parties, was reorganized as a single party. It was the government party during José Antonio Remón Cantera's presidency and continued to be one of the principal parties until the late 1960s.
The ideology of CPN was vague: it supported the developmentalist and reformist policies of the Remón government (1952–1955), following Remón's assassination in 1955, supported the conservative Ricardo Arias government (1955–1956) and Ernesto de la Guardia government (1956–1960), which dismantled many of Remón's progressive reforms, and in the early 1960s included among its deputies in the National Assembly Thelma King, who for a while was one of the principal advocates of Castroist tendencies in Panama.
The CPN was the official government party from its formation in 1952 until 1960. In the 1956 elections the CPN's presidential candidate was Ernesto de la Guardia; he polled 177,633 votes (68.49%) in the election.
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