Revolutionary Febrerista Party

The Revolutionary Febrerista Party (Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Febrerista, PRF) is a democratic socialist party of Paraguay.

Revolutionary Febrerista Party Partido Revolucionario Febrerista
President	Josefina Duarte
Founder	Rafael Franco
Founded	1951
Headquarters	Casa del Pueblo, Manduvirá Nº 522 Asunción, Paraguay
Ideology	Left-wing nationalism Democratic socialism[1] Environmentalism Indigenismo
Political position	Left-wing
Colours	Green
Website
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History

The party was established on 11 December 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and was initially banned in Paraguay, which was under a Colorado Party regime at the time. The party was legalised in 1964 as it was no longer deemed to be a threat to President Alfredo Stroessner.[2] In the 1967 Constitutional Assembly elections it won three of the 120 seats. In the general elections the following year the party failed to win a Senate seat, but won one seat in the Chamber of Deputies.

After 1968 the party did not contest another national election until the overthrow of the Stroessner regime in 1989. In the elections that year they won two seats in the Chamber of Deputies. In the 1991 Constitutional Assembly elections they won a single seat. For the 1993 elections it was part of the National Encounter Party coalition,[3] which finished third. The party ran alone in the 1998 elections, but failed to win a seat. They also failed to win a seat in the 2003 elections. For the 2008 elections the party was part of the Patriotic Alliance for Change, which won two seats.

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Election	Party candidate	Votes	%	Result
1968	Carlos Caballero Gatti	16,871	2.6%	Lost N
1989	Fernando Antonio Vera Sánchez	11,007	0.95%	Lost N
1993	None (endorsed Guillermo Caballero Vargas)	262,407	24.39%	Lost N
1998	Luis Alberto Campos Doria	8,139	0.51%	Lost N
2008	None (endorsed Fernando Lugo)	764,968	41.20%	Elected

Chamber of Deputies elections

Chamber of Deputies

Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
1968	16,871	2.6%	1 / 60	1
1989	23,815	2.1%	2 / 72	2
1993	199,053 (as part of NEP)	17.7%	9 / 80	7
1998	20,121	1.3%	0 / 80	9
2003	11,542	0.8%	0 / 80
2008	520	0.03%	0 / 80
2018	15,169	0.64%	0 / 80

Senate elections

Senate

Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
1968	Not released	Not released	0 / 30
1993	203,213 (as part of NEP)	17.9%	8 / 45	8
1998	16,667	1.1%	0 / 45	8
2003	10,202	0.7%	0 / 45
2018	14,332	0.61%	0 / 45

References

1. Busky, Donald F. (2000), Democratic Socialism: A Global Survey, Praeger Publishers, p. 195, ISBN 9780275968861
2. Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p416 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
3. Nohlen, p427