Authentic Radical Liberal Party

Authentic Radical Liberal Party Partido Liberal Radical Auténtico
President	Efraín Alegre
Founded	1887 (historical) 1978 (modern)
Headquarters	Iturbe 936 c/ Manuel Domínguez, Asunción
Ideology	Liberalism Radicalism
Political position	Centre to Center-left
International affiliation	Liberal International
Regional affiliation	Liberal Network for Latin America
Chamber of Deputies	17 / 80
Senate	13 / 45
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Website
http://www.plra.org.py/
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The Authentic Radical Liberal Party (Template:Lang-es or PLRA) is a centrist liberal 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.

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 allowed no term limits to the re-election of the Paraguayan president.

At the 2003 legislative elections, the party won 25.7% of the popular vote and 21 out of 80 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 24.3%, leading to 12 out of 45 seats in the Senate. Its candidate at the presidential elections of the same day, Julio César Franco, won 24.0% of the popular vote.

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 are approximately tied with the Colorados in the number of seats won in the House of Deputies and the Senate.

Following the June 2012 Impeachment of Fernando Lugo the governing alliance fell apart, and Vice-President Federico Franco took over the presidency, thus exercising the first all-PLRA government in Paraguay.

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Election	Party candidate	Votes	%	Result
1989	Domingo Laíno	241,829	20.98%	Lost N
1993	Domingo Laíno	357,164	33.20%	Lost N
1998	Domingo Laíno	703,379	43.88%	Lost N
2003	Julio César Franco	370,348	24.7%	Lost N
2008	None (endorsed Fernando Lugo)	766,502	42.40%	Elected Y
2013	Efraín Alegre	889,451	39.05%	Lost N
2018	Efraín Alegre	1,110,464	45.08%	Lost N

Vice presidential election

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

Chamber of Deputies elections

Chamber of Deputies

Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
1989	229,329	20.2%	21 / 72	21
1993	414,208	36.8%	33 / 80	12
1998	681,917 (as part of Democratic Alliance)	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

Senate elections

Senate

Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
1993	409,728	36.2%	17 / 45	17
1998	661,764 (as part of Democratic Alliance)	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

Notes

The Democratic Alliance was an alliance of the Authentic Radical Liberal Party and the National Encounter Party

See also

• List of liberal parties
• Liberal democracy
• Liberalism and radicalism in Paraguay