Radical Action Party

The Radical Action Party (in Spanish: Partido Acción Radical, PAR) was a Panamanian small centre-right political party.

It was founded prior to the 1964 elections by Norberto Navarro, ex-minister of Public Works under three presidents, a former leading member of the Authentic Revolutionary Party. He was the vice-presidential candidate under Roberto Chiari in 1952 against Jose Remon. Navarro founded the Independent Revolutionary Party (PRI), which was abolished in 1953 after José Antonio Remón Cantera put through the law requiring 45000 adherents for legal parties.[1]

For the 1964 elections, the PAR presented its presidential candidate, Norberto Navarro, but he unsuccessfully ran in the presidential elections, obtaining 3,708 votes (01.14%).[2] Norberto's younger brother, Oscar Navarro, was elected Diputado to the National Assembly for several terms.

The PAR was abolished by the Electoral Tribunal in 1964.[3]

References
  1. Panama: election factbook, May 12, 1968. Washington: Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems. 1968. Pp. 20.
  2. Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 1. [Oxford] [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. Pp. 532.
  3. Panama: election factbook, May 12, 1968. Washington: Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems. 1968. Pp. 21.
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