Nationalist Party of Central America

  

Nationalist Party Partido Nacionalista
Leader	Elena Sánchez (CR)
Chairperson	Enrique Bonilla (VT)
Founded	January 16, 1987 (1987-01-16)
Headquarters	Guatemala City, Guatemala
Student wing	Unión Nacionalista Estudiantil
Youth wing	Futuro Nacionalista
Women's wing	Mujeres del Nacionalista
LGBT wing	Colorido Nacionalista
Overseas wing	Global Nacionalista
Membership	TBD
Ideology	Social conservatism Christian democracy American unionism
Political position	Center-right
International affiliation	Centrist Democrat Union
American affiliation	United Federalists of America
Official colors	Dark green
Governing body	TBD
House of Initiatives	7 / 50
House of Delegates	0 / 234 (TBD)
American Parliament	14 / 45
Website
TBD
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Nationalist Party (Spanish: Partido Nacionalista) is a center-right political party in Central America. It is one of the largest political parties of Central America alongside its rival, the Democratic Alliance. It currently served as an opposition party of the government together with the Liberty Union Party and Christian Democratic Union Party. The current party leader is Costa Rica initiativator Elena Sánchez.

It was founded in January 16, 1987 after the unification of some conservative-leaning political parties in Central America. Aside of the Democratic Alliance, it is also one of the two oldest surviving political parties in the country. The Nationalist Party is moderate in terms of American unionism. They support continued membership in the CAS, but oppose federalization and unification. The party is against in the friendly relationship to the United Commonwealth and they opposed Landonism. In terms of the country's certain issues, the party supported gun control but opposed the same-sex marriage, abortion, and legalization of marijuana.

In 2004, a split occured in the party when some members of the Nationalist Party established its own new party, known as the Unity Party, led by Gregorio Portillo. Unlike the Nationalist Party, the Unity Party wanted to reform the CAS but they still supported the social and economic policies of the Nationalists.

It belongs to the opposition during the presidencies of Geovanni Valverde, Sergio Cañizares and Beatriz Santana. This party is recently elected four presidents in the history of Central America.

Organization

State parties

State	Party	Leader	Seats in CDI	Seats in CDD	Seats in state legislatures
Costa Rica	Nationalist Party
Distrito Capital	Nationalist Party
El Salvador	Nationalist Party
Guatemala	Nationalist Party
Honduras	Nationalist Party
Los Altos	Nationalist Party
Nicaragua	Nationalist Party
Punta	Federal Party
Victoria	Nationalist Party
Zelaya	National People's Party

Political positions

Social policy

• Oppose same-sex marriages and civil unions.
• Oppose the legalization of marijuana and other drugs.
• Support for stricter gun control.
• Support for reproductive rights, but opposes abortion.
• Preservation of traditional Central American values.

Economic policy

• Decrease taxes of all Central American citizens.
• Raise the taxes of tobacco and alcohol companies.
• Increase military spending.
• Reduce the prices of all essential products.
• Support for the exportation and importation of Central American products.

Foreign policy

• Cut off diplomatic relations with the United Commonwealth.
• Supporting the CAS but oppose federalization and unification.
• Maintaining FCA's commitments of League of Nations.
• Maintaining FCA's relationship to Sierra and Anglo-American countries except the United Commonwealth.

List of party leaders

No	Leader	Portrait	Hometown	Took office	Left office
1	Leonel Aguilar		Guatemala City, Guatemala
2	Sebastian Mejía
3	Alonzo de Guzmán		Comayagua, Honduras
4	Isaías Núñez		San José, Costa Rica
5	Victoria Pacheco		Rivas, Nicaragua
6	Rigoberto Estrada
7	Jorge Marroquin		Guatemala City, Guatemala
8	Elena Sánchez

Elected Presidents

• Leonel Aguilar - 1^st President of Central America (1987–1992)
• Alonzo de Guzmán - Interim President of Central America (1986–1987), 3^rd President of Central America (1997–2002)
• Isaías Núñez - 4^th President of Central America (2002–2007)
• Jorge Marroquin - 7^th President of Central America (2017–Present)

Factions

• Pure Conservatives
• Moderates
• Liberty Conservatives
• Christian Right
• Traditionalists
• Economists
• Popular Way