Progressive Action Party
Progressive Action Party Partido de Acción Progresista | |
---|---|
Abbreviation | PAP |
Leader | Fulgencio Batista |
Founded | 1949 |
Dissolved | 1959 |
Split from | Liberal Party of Cuba |
Headquarters | Havana |
Ideology | Authoritarianism Conservatism Economic liberalism Anti-communism Right-wing populism |
Political position | Right-wing |
The Progressive Action Party (
coup d'etat
by seizing the Presidency.
The party also ran in the elections of
1958, winning due to the early withdrawal of opponents, as well as electoral fraud
.
The party was based on a combination of strong conservatism and
Raul Castro and Che Guevara. Batista's authoritarian rule and repression in response to Castro's movement led to the deaths of 20,000 Cubans through torture and extrajudicial killing
.
The party was dissolved following the Cuban Revolution of 1959, which ousted Batista causing it to flee abroad and led to the establishment of the revolutionary government of Fidel Castro, which officially became a communist regime in 1961.
Electoral history
Presidential elections
Election | Party candidate | Votes | % | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
1954 | Fulgencio Batista | 1,262,587 | Elected | |
1958
|
Andrés Rivero Agüero | 428,166 | 70.40% | Elected |
Note
Andrés Rivero Agüero was unable to take office due to the Cuban Revolution
House of Representatives elections
Election | Party leader | Seats | +/– | Position |
---|---|---|---|---|
1950 | Fulgencio Batista | 4 / 66
|
4 | 4th |
1954 | 60 / 130
|
56 | 1st | |
1958
|
65 / 130
|
5 | 1st |
Senate elections
Election | Party leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Position |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1954 | Fulgencio Batista | (part of the National Progressive Coalition[a]) | 36 / 54
|
36 | 1st |
- ^ The National Progressive Coalition was an alliance of PAP, the Radical Union, the Republican Democratic Party and the Liberal Party.
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