Anti-Communist Unification Party
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The Anti-Communist Unification Party (Spanish: Partido de Unificación Anticomunista, PUA) was a political party in Guatemala.
History
The party was formed in 1948 in order to support the candidacy of Francisco Javier Arana in the 1950 presidential elections.[1] However, Arana was assassinated in the build-up to the elections, having been considered the main rival to Jacobo Árbenz of the Revolutionary Action Party.[1] The PUA ultimately joined the National Electoral Union (an alliance including the Democratic Unity Party and the National Democratic Reconciliation Party), which nominated Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes as its candidate.[2] Ydígoras finished second to Árbenz in the elections.
The party later became part of the
In 1983 the party was re-established by Lionel Sisniega Otero Barrios, a former member of the National Liberation Movement (MLN).[3] Barrios had left the MLN after accusations that it was plotting a coup against Ríos Montt.[4] In the 1984 Constitutional Assembly elections the PUA received 4% of the vote and won one of the 88 seats. In the general elections the following year it was one of three parties to nominate Otero as its presidential candidate; he finished last in a field of eight candidates with 2% of the vote. The three parties also ran together in the Congressional elections, failing to win a seat.
References
- ^ a b Robert J. Alexander (1982) Political parties of the Americas, Greenwood Press, p422
- ^ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas A Data Handbook Volume 1. North America, Central America, and the Caribbean, Oxford University Press, pp325–338
- ^ Phil Gunson, Greg Chamberlain & Andrew Thompson (2015) The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of Central America and the Caribbean, Routledge, p237
- ^ Ciarán Ó Maoláin (1985) Latin American Political Movements, Facts on File Publications, p150