Institutional Democratic Party
Institutional Democratic Party Partido Institucional Democrático | |
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The Institutional Democratic Party (Spanish: Partido Institucional Democrático, PID) was a Guatemalan pro-government political party active during the 1970s.
The PID was formed in 1964 by
The PID was first tested in the
In the
In the 1978 general election the PID aligned with the Revolutionary Party to secure the election of Fernando Romeo Lucas García.[8] However, after this victory internal divisions within the party continued to escalate, whilst from the outside the business community began to grow as more vocal critics, particularly over the issue of PID operatives using their positions to enrich themselves.[9] When plans to rig upcoming elections for the PID candidate came to light the military opposition took action by overthrowing Lucas Garcia and installing Efraín Ríos Montt as President.[10] As a result, a new generation of young officers replaced the old and the PID did not continue in government after the coup.
The party won five seats in the Constituent Assembly elections in 1984. For the 1985 elections, the PID and MLN renewed their alliance and backed Mario Sandoval Alarcón as presidential candidate, finishing fourth in the presidential race while becoming the third largest block in Congress.
A rump PID emerged in 1990 when it merged with the
References
- ^ Guatemala: Democracy and Human Rights (June 1997)
- ^ Jennifer G. Schirmer, The Guatemalan Military Project: A Violence Called Democracy, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998, p.17
- ^ Jim Handy, 'Resurgent Democracy and the Guatemalan Military', Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Nov., 1986), pp. 385-386
- ^ Handy, 'Resurgent Democracy and the Guatemalan Military', pp. 393-394
- ^ Handy, 'Resurgent Democracy and the Guatemalan Military', p. 394
- ^ Handy, 'Resurgent Democracy and the Guatemalan Military', p. 399
- ^ Handy, 'Resurgent Democracy and the Guatemalan Military', p. 400
- ^ Guillermo O'Donnell, Philippe C. Schmitter and Laurence Whitehead, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule, 1986, p. 119
- ^ Handy, 'Resurgent Democracy and the Guatemalan Military', p. 401
- ^ Handy, 'Resurgent Democracy and the Guatemalan Military', p. 402
- ^ GUATEMALA: The Party System from 1963 to 2000, by Daniel M. Corstange