Nacionalista Party (Philippines)

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The Nacionalista Party is the oldest political party in the Philippines today and was responsible for leading the country throughout the majority of the 20th centurysince its founding in 1907. The party began as the country's vehicle for independence, through the building of a modern nation-state, and through the advocacy of efficient self rule, dominating the Philppine Assembly (1907–1916), the Philppine Legislature (1916–1935) and the pre-war years of the Commonwealth of the Philippines (1935–1941). During the Japanese Occupation political parties were replaced by the KALIBAPI. By the second half of the century the party was one of the main political contenders for leadership in the country, in competition with the Liberals and the Progressives, during the decades between the devastation of World War II and the violent suppression of partisan politics of the Marcos dictatorship. In 1978, in a throwback to the Japanese Occupation, political parties were asked to merge into the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan, although the Nacionalistas preferred to go into hibernation. Eventually, the party was revived during the late 1980s and early 1990s by the Laurel family, which has dominated the Party since the 1950s. It is now being reborn by the likes of Sen. Ralph Recto, and party president Sen. Manuel Villar. Two of the other present parties, the Liberal Party and the Nationalist People's Coalition are breakaways from the Nacionalista Party.

The Nacionalista Party is also known as the NP. There are no results available of the last elections for the House of Representatives, but according to the website of the House, the party holds five out of 235 seats (state of the parties, June 2005). The party was, at the 2004 elections a member of the Koalisyon ng Katapatan at Karanasan sa Kinabukasan (K-4, Coalition of Truth and Experience for Tomorrow), the coalition that supported president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who won the 2004 presidential elections.

Contents

1 Notable Nacionalistas

1.1 Past
1.2 Current

2 Platform
3 Structure
4 Early history
5 See also
6 External link

Notable Nacionalistas

Past

Throughout their careers, many of the country's greatest politicians, statesmen, and leaders were, in whole or in part, Nacionalistas. Notable names include Manuel Briones, Carlos P. Garcia, Jose P. Laurel, Salvador Laurel, Fernando Lopez, Ramon Magsaysay, Emmanuel Pelaez, Claro M. Recto, Eulogio Rodriguez, Elpidio Quirino, Manuel Roxas, and finally, a few of the founding fathers of Philippine Independence Manuel L. Quezon, Jose Palma, and Sergio Osmeña. Before his declaration of martial law, Ferdinand E. Marcos ran for the presidency as a Nacionalista.

Most of these individuals embody solid political traditions of economic and political nationalism are pretainent today, even with the party's subsequent decline.

Current

Some members of the House of Representatives and Senate include, but are not limited to, the following:

Manuel Villar (Senate President and Nacionalista president)
Ralph Recto (Senator)
Eduardo Gullas, Cebu
Gilbert Remulla, Cavite
Jesus Crispin "Boying" Remulla, Cavite
Emmylou Taliño-Santos, North Cotabato
Cynthia Villar, Las Piñas
Allan Peter Cayetano, Taguig-Pateros

Platform

The Nationalista Party in the Philippines corresponds somewhat to the Republican Party in the United States. It belongs to the conservative wing of Philippine politics, while its main opponent, the Liberal Party and the political parties belonging to the aggrupation of the People's Power government all belong to the liberal wing of Philippine politics somewhat corresponding to the Democratic Party in the United States.

Structure

Early history

Filipino ilustrados who served in the First Philippine Republic established in Malolos, Bulacan in January 1899 had split into two factions: between those who, like Pardo de Tavera, Cayetano Arellano, Pedro Paterno and Felipe Buencamino believed in the intermediate restoration of peace and civil order under a benevolent American rule, and those who, like Apolinario Mabini, Paciano Rizal, Artemio Ricarte and Pablo Ocampo were called the "intransigents" and believed in continuing the struggle for "immediate and complete independence" even under American occupation.

The Partido Nacionalista or Nacionalista Party, was the result of the union between the two camps: the Partido Independista and the Partido Union Nacionalista. Among the leaders in the unification work were Galicano Apacible, Franciso Liongson, Teodoro Sandico and Alberto Barretto.

See [Complete History]

External link

[Official party site]

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