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Progressive Liberal Party (Guatemala)

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Progressive Liberal Party
Partido Liberal Progresista
LeaderJorge Ubico Castañeda (1922–1944)
Federico Ponce Vaides (1944)
Founded1922
Legalised1925
Dissolved1944
Split fromLiberal Party
HeadquartersGuatemala City
IdeologyUbicoism
Economic liberalism[1][2]
Liberalism[3]
Nationalism[1]
Anti-communism[1][4][5][6]
Fascism[7]
Federalism
Political positionFar-right

The Progressive Liberal Party was a political party in Guatemala.[8] It had a nationalistic and liberal ideology. It was founded in 1922, and dissolved in 1944.

The party, led by Jorge Ubico won the 1931 general election unopposed.[9][10]

The party's members included those who were complicit during the dictatorship of Manuel Estrada Cabrera as well as prominent members Guatemala's intellectual youth and of Guatemalan society.[11] When Ubico first assumed power in 1931, the PLP adopted a program that called for, among other things: reform of political institutions, a solution to economic problems resulting from industrialization, and complete reformation of the education system. At least up until 1932, the PLP did not formally exist as a proper political party, but rather of a series of clubs across the country. Indigenous peoples in Guatemala were heavily persecuted under Ubico's rule, despite the party's claim that many social systems were implemented to assist this population; although support among indigenous peoples of the era is complex, as some used Ubico's expanded bureaucracy to express personal grievances in the hopes of preventing local abuses.[12][13] Because the PLP effectively served as a vehicle for the Ubico dictatorship, many political parties founded after the ouster of the dictatorship in the Guatemalan Revolution refused to adopt the word "party" in their names.[14]

Electoral history

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Presidential elections

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Election Candidate Votes % Result
1922 Jorge Ubico
5%
 Lost Red X
1926 Jorge Ubico 36,940
11.39%
 Lost Red X
1931 Jorge Ubico 305,841
100%
 Elected Green tick

Legislative Assembly elections

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Election Votes % Position Seats +/– Status in legislature
1923 0% Steady 2nd
0 / 69
 Steady 0 Opposition
1925 506 12.73% Steady 2nd
0 / 69
 Steady 0 Opposition
1926 36,940 11.39% Steady 2nd
5 / 69
 Increase 5 Opposition
1927 0% Steady 2nd
0 / 69
 Decrease 5 Opposition
1929 15.28% Steady 2nd
6 / 69
 Increase 6 Opposition
1931 305,841 100% Increase 1st
69 / 69
 Increase 63 Government
1935 100% Steady 1st
69 / 69
 Steady 0 Government
1944 44,571 91.84% Steady 1st
5 / 5
 Decrease 64 Government

Presidents of Guatemala

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No. President Term start Term end Term length Vice President
1
(21)		 Jorge Ubico Jorge Ubico
(1878–1946)		 14 February 1931 1 July 1944 13 years, 138 days Vacant
2
(–)		 Juan Federico Ponce Vaides Juan Federico Ponce Vaides
(1889–1956)		 1 July 1944 20 October 1944 111 days Vacant

References

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  1. 1 2 3 Mayra Valladares de Ruiz. "EL P ARllDO LIBERAL Y OTRAS ·FUERZAS POLÍTICAS 1871-1944" (PDF). Retrieved July 24, 2020.
  2. ↑ Consejo Editorial de Plaza Pública (7 February 2013). "Más inteligencia civil y menos populismo". Retrieved July 24, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Más inteligencia civil y menos populismo". Plaza Pública. 7 February 2013.
  4. ↑ "Ubico, ¿Le debe algo la Historia?". 19 October 2016. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
  5. ↑ "1878: nace el ex presidente Jorge Ubico". 10 November 2017. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
  6. ↑ "1956: Guatemala termina la guerra con Alemania". 20 November 2017. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
  7. ↑ "Revista D - PrensaLibre.com". servicios.prensalibre.com. Archived from the original on 2015-01-22.
  8. ↑ "Central America in the 1930s". www.fsmitha.com. Retrieved 2019-12-15.
  9. ↑ "Timeline: Guatemala". 2012-07-03. Retrieved 2019-12-15.
  10. ↑ Elections in the Americas : a data handbook. Nohlen, Dieter. New York. 2005. ISBN 0-19-925358-7. OCLC 58051010.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  11. ↑ Reforma social: Revista mensual de cuestiones sociales, economicas, politicas, parlamentarias, estudisticas y de hygiene publica. Rambla, Bourza y Company. 1929.
  12. ↑ Defining Nation and Ethnicity in Words and Deeds: Indigenismo, Nation-state Formation, and Rural Labor in Guatemala, 1930-1944. University of Wisconsin--Madison. 1997.
  13. ↑ Sieder, R (July 2000). "'Paz, progreso, justicia y honradez': law and citizenship in Alta Verapaz during the regime of Jorge Ubico". Bulletin of Latin American Research. 19 (3): 283–302. doi:10.1016/S0261-3050(00)00007-3.
  14. ↑ Ita, Guadalupe Rodríguez de (2003). La participación política en la primavera guatemalteca: Una aproximación a la historia de los partidos durante el período 1944-1954. ISBN 978-968-835-812-2.
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