Authentic Radical Liberal Party

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Authentic Radical Liberal Party Partido Liberal Radical Auténtico

President	Hugo Fleitas
Founded	10 July 1887
Split from	Liberal Party Radical Liberal Party
Headquarters	Iturbe 936 c/ Manuel Domínguez, Asunción
Membership (2022)	1,548,023
Ideology	Liberalism Progressivism
Political position	Centre to centre-left
National affiliation	Concertación
International affiliation	Liberal International
Chamber of Deputies	22 / 80
Senate	7 / 45
Governors	2 / 17
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Website
www.plra.org.py
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The Authentic Radical Liberal Party (Spanish: Partido Liberal Radical Auténtico or PLRA) is a liberal and radical political party in Paraguay. The party is a full member of Liberal International. The liberales, as they are known, are the leading opposition to the dominant conservative Colorado Party. They have taken this position since the end of the Alfredo Stroessner dictatorship in 1989. They are the political successors of the Liberal Party, which traces its history back to 10 July 1887.

The party was formed by Domingo Laíno, Carmen Casco de Lara Castro, Carlos Alberto González, Miguel Ángel Martínez Yaryes, and others in 1978, in opposition to the Constitutional Amendment of 1977 which imposed no term limits to the re-election of the Paraguayan president. The PLRA remained officially unrecognized from its foundation in 1978 until the overthrow of Alfredo Stroessner. During this time, PLRA activists suffered continual harassment.

In the presidential elections of 2008, the party achieved victory over the Colorado Party for the first time in 61 years through a political alliance headed by leftist Fernando Lugo and composed by other left-wing political parties. At the 2008 legislative elections, the party won 26 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 14 seats in the Senate. They were approximately tied with the Colorados in the number of seats won in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.

Following the June 2012 impeachment of Fernando Lugo, which the PLRA spearheaded, the governing alliance fell apart, and Vice-President Federico Franco took over the presidency, thus exercising the first all-PLRA government in Paraguay. The PLRA has remained in opposition since 2013. As one of Paraguay’s two traditional parties, the PLRA is notable for its lack of a clear political program, which is a reflection of its division into personalist factions, dominated by networks of national and local caudillos.

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Election	Party candidate	Votes	%	Result
1989	Domingo Laíno	241,829	20.98%	Lost N
1993		357,164	33.20%	Lost N
1998		703,379	43.88%	Lost N
2003	Julio César Franco	370,348	24.7%	Lost N
2008	Supported Fernando Lugo (PDC)	766,502	42.40%	Elected Y
2013	Efraín Alegre	889,451	39.05%	Lost N
2018		1,110,464	45.08%	Lost N
2023		830,842	28.25%	Lost N

Vice presidential election

Election	Party candidate	Votes	%	Result
2000	Julio César Franco	597,431	49.6%	Elected Y

Chamber of Deputies elections

Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
1989	229,329	20.2%	21 / 72	21
1993	414,208	36.8%	33 / 80	12
1998	681,917	42.8%	35 / 80	7
2003	379,066	25.7%	21 / 80	14
2008	500,040	28.27%	27 / 80	6
2013	656,301	29.25%	27 / 80
2018	420,821	17.74%	17 / 80	10
2023	779,282	27.46%	23 / 80	6

Run as part of the National Coalition for a New Parguay.

Senate elections

Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
1993	409,728	36.2%	17 / 45	17
1998	661,764	42.1%	20 / 45	5
2003	374,854	25.4%	12 / 45	8
2008	507,413	28.92%	14 / 45	2
2013	588,054	26.17%	13 / 45	1
2018	570,205	24.18%	13 / 45
2023	701,547	24.35%	12 / 45	1

Notes

PLRA contested the 1998 elections as a member of the Democratic Alliance electoral coalition along with the National Encounter Party.

PLRA contested the 2008 elections as a member of the Patriotic Alliance for Change electoral coalition along with the Febrerista Revolutionary Party, the National Encounter Party, the Party for a Country of Solidarity, the Christian Democratic Party, and the Progressive Democratic Party, among others.

PLRA contested the 2013 elections as a member of the Paraguay Alegre electoral coalition along with the Progressive Democratic Party and the National Encounter Party, among others.

PLRA contested the 2018 elections as a member of the Great Renewed National Alliance electoral coalition along with the Revolutionary Febrerista Party, the Progressive Democratic Party, and the Guasú Front, among others.

PLRA contested the 2023 elections as a member of the Concertación electoral coalition along with the Guasú Front, the Beloved Fatherland Party, the National Encounter Party, the Hagamos Party, the Progressive Democratic Party, the Revolutionary Febrerista Party, and the Christian Democratic Party, among others.

References

"Hugo Fleitas: Vamos a empezar un nuevo ciclo de reformas dentro del PLRA". ABC Color (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 October 2023.
"PLRA supera los 1,5 millones de afiliados - Política - ABC Color".
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Kessler, Jacob. "Taiwan in the hot seat during Paraguay presidential elections". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Paraguay: Information on the Partido Liberal Radical Auténtico (PLRA), 1985-1991, 1 February 1992, PRY10271, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6abee2c.html
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"List of full members". Archived from the original on 25 May 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2016., Liberal International, www.liberal-international.org.
Silva, Tamy Amorim da (2016). Memórias sobre uma Dama Valente: Carmen de Lara Castro e a Ditadura Stronista (1967–1989) [Memories of a valiant woman: Carmen de Lara Castro and the Stronista Dictatorship (1967-1989)] (PDF) (master's degree) (in Portuguese). Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. p. 169. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
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^ Nickson 2015, pp. 461.

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