National Coalition Party
Partido de Concertación Nacional
AbbreviationPCN
PresidentManuel Rodríguez
FounderJulio Adalberto Rivera
Founded30 September 1961 (1961-09-30)
Registered23 September 2011 (2011-09-23)
Split fromChristian Democratic Party[1]
HeadquartersCalle Los Granados #37, San Salvador, El Salvador
Membership (2019)7,200[2]
IdeologyNationalism[3]
Regional affiliationCenter-Democratic Integration Group
Colours  Blue
  White
Slogan«Towards Social Justice by the National Coalition»
(Spanish: «Hacia la Justicia Social por la Concertación Nacional»)[4]
Seats in the Legislative Assembly
2 / 84
Mayors
16 / 262
Seats in the PARLACEN
1 / 20
Party flag
Website
pcnoficial.com
1982 election poster

The National Coalition Party (Spanish: Partido de Concertación Nacional, PCN) is a nationalist political party in El Salvador. Until 2011 it was known as the National Conciliation Party (Spanish: Partido de Conciliación Nacional, PCN). It was the most powerful political party in the country during the 1960s and 1970s, and was closely associated with the Salvadoran military. Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo, a candidate of the National Conciliation Party, was elected president in 1962, and the next three presidents were also from the party. After the 1979 coup the party declined in influence but continued to exist.

History

After 2000

Today, it is considered relatively minor as compared with the two major organizations, ARENA and the FMLN.

At the legislative elections, held on 16 March 2003, the party won 13.0% of the popular vote and 16 out of 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly. Its candidate in the presidential election of 21 March 2004, José Rafael Machuca Zelaya, won 2.7%. In the 12 March 2006 legislative election, the party won 11.0% of the popular vote and 10 out of 84 seats, a major decline in representation, but the party is still the third largest political party in El Salvador. At the January 18, 2009 legislative elections the party won 11 seats.

With no party holding a majority, it can be seen as holding the balance of power. However, it usually sides with the conservative ARENA party.

While the party was technically to be disbanded after the 2004 election, in which its candidate did not gather the necessary 3% of the vote, it was allowed to hold on to its registration by decree; this decree was declared unconstitutional on 30 April 2011, and the party was thus disbanded.[5]

The party was de facto re-established, registering with the Supreme Electoral Tribunal as the National Coalition ('Concertación Nacional', CN) in September 2011.[6] After one year, it added the word 'Partido' ("party") to its full name, which allowed it to again use the traditional acronym PCN.[7] Since 2018, the party has 9 out of 84 congressmen and 25 out of 262 mayorship offices.

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Election Candidate First round Result
Votes %
1962 Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo 368,801
100%
 Elected Green tick
1967 Fidel Sánchez Hernández 267,447
54.37%
 Elected Green tick
1972 Arturo Armando Molina 334,600
43.42%
 Elected Green tick
1977 Carlos Humberto Romero 812,281
67.30%
 Elected Green tick
1982 Supported Álvaro Magaña (Democratic Action) 36
60%
 Elected Green tick
1984 José Francisco Guerrero 244,556
19.31%
 Lost Red X
1989 Rafael Morán Castañeda 38,218
4.1%
 Lost Red X
1994 Roberto Escobar García 70,504
5.4%
 Lost Red X
1999 Hernán Contreras 45,140
3.82%
 Lost Red X
2004 José Rafael Machuca Zelaya 61,781
2.71%
 Lost Red X
2009 Did not run
2014 Supported Antonio Saca (UNIDAD) 307,603
11.44%
 Lost Red X
2019 Supported Carlos Calleja (ARENA) 857,084
31.72%
 Lost Red X

Legislative Assembly elections

Election Votes % Position Seats +/– Status in legislature
1961 207,701 60.1% Increase 1st
54 / 54
 Increase 54 Government
1964 176,620 58.6%
32 / 52
 Decrease 22
1966 207,586 53.6%
31 / 52
 Decrease 1
1968 212,661 47.7%
27 / 52
 Decrease 4
1970 315,560 59.8%
34 / 52
 Increase 7
1972 353,775 67.4%
39 / 52
 Increase 5
1974 N/A
36 / 52
 Decrease 3
1976
52 / 52
 Increase 18
1978 766,673 90.3%
50 / 54
 Decrease 2
1982 273,383 18.6% Decrease 3rd
14 / 60
 Decrease 36
1985 80,730 8.3%
12 / 60
 Decrease 2
1988 78,756 8.5%
7 / 60
 Decrease 5
1991 94,531 9.0% Decrease 4th
9 / 52
 Increase 2 Opposition
1994 83,520 6.21%
4 / 84
 Decrease 5
1997 97,362 8.4% Increase 3rd
11 / 84
 Increase 7
2000 106,802 8.8%
13 / 84
 Increase 2
2003 181,167 13.0%
16 / 84
 Increase 3
2006 172,341 11.0%
10 / 84
 Decrease 6
2009 194,751 8.79%
11 / 84
 Increase 1
2012 157,074 7.18% Decrease 4th
7 / 84
 Decrease 4
2015 154,093 6.77%
4 / 84
 Decrease 3
2018 230,862 10.87% Increase 3rd
9 / 84
 Increase 5
2021 102,848 4.12% Decrease 5th
2 / 84
 Decrease 7 Government

See also

References

  1. ↑ Haggerty, Richard A., ed. (1990). El Salvador: A Country Study (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. p. 21. OCLC 44362656.
  2. ↑ https://diario.elmundo.sv/afiliados-pcn-eligen-dirigencia-nacional-y-local/ Afiliados PCN eligen dirigencia nacional y local
  3. ↑ http://www.pcn.com.sv/principios-y-objetivos
  4. ↑ https://www.pcnoficial.com/fotos-recientes ESTATUTOS PARTIDO DE CONCERTACIÓN NACIONAL PCN
  5. ↑ El Salvador Supreme Court disbands two parties, BBC News, 30 April 2011, retrieved 12 March 2012
  6. ↑ "TSE anuncia inscripción del partido Concertación Nacional", El Salvador Noticias, 23 September 2011, retrieved 12 March 2012
  7. ↑ Rivera, Edgardo (26 September 2012), El PES volverá a llamarse PDC y el CN también busca ser PCN, archived from the original on 2 February 2014


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