National Coalition Party (El Salvador)

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Political party in El Salvador

National Coalition Party

Partido de Concertación Nacional

Abbreviation| PCN
President| Manuel Rodríguez
Founder| Julio Adalberto Rivera
Founded| 30 September 1961; 63 years ago (1961-09-30)
Registered| 23 September 2011; 13 years ago (2011-09-23)
Split from| Christian Democratic Party[1]
Headquarters| Calle Los Granados #37, San Salvador, El Salvador
Membership (2019)| 7,200[2]
Ideology| Nationalism[3]
Conservatism[4]
Political position| Center-right[5] to right-wing[6]
Regional affiliation| Center-Democratic Integration Group
Colours|   Blue
White
Slogan| «Towards Social Justice by the National Coalition»
(Spanish: «Hacia la Justicia Social por la Concertación Nacional»)[7]
Seats in the Legislative Assembly|

2 / 60

Mayors|

4 / 44

Seats in the PARLACEN|

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Website
pcnoficial.com

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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

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### After 2000

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

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.[8]

The party was de facto re-established, registering with the Supreme Electoral Tribunal as the National Coalition ('Concertación Nacional', CN) in September 2011.[9] After one year, it added the word 'Partido' ("party") to its full name, which allowed it to again use the traditional acronym PCN.[10] Since 2018, the party has 9 out of 84 congressmen and 25 out of 262 mayorship offices.

## Electoral history

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### Presidential elections

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Election | Candidate | First round  | Result

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Votes | %
1962 | Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo | 368,801  |

100%

| Elected Y
1967 | Fidel Sánchez Hernández | 267,447  |

54.37%

| Elected Y
1972 | Arturo Armando Molina | 334,600  |

43.42%

| Elected Y
1977 | Carlos Humberto Romero | 812,281  |

67.30%

| Elected Y
1982 | Supported Álvaro Magaña (Democratic Action) | 36  |

60%

| Elected Y
1984 | José Francisco Guerrero  | 244,556  |

19.31%

| Lost N
1989 | Rafael Morán Castañeda  | 38,218  |

4.1%

| Lost N
1994 | Roberto Escobar García  | 70,504  |

5.4%

| Lost N
1999 | Hernán Contreras  | 45,140  |

3.82%

| Lost N
2004 | José Rafael Machuca Zelaya  | 61,781  |

2.71%

| Lost N
2009 | Did not run
2014 | Supported Antonio Saca (UNIDAD)  | 307,603  |

11.44%

| Lost N
2019 | Supported Carlos Calleja (ARENA)  | 857,084  |

31.72%

| Lost N
2024 | Supported Nayib Bukele (NI)[11] | 2,701,725  |

84.65%

| Won Y

### Legislative Assembly elections

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Election | Votes | % | Position | Seats  | +/– | Status in legislature

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1961 | 207,701  | 60.1%  |  1st |

54 / 54

|  54  | Government
1964 | 176,620  | 58.6%  |

32 / 52

|  22  | Government
1966 | 207,586  | 53.6%  |

31 / 52

|  1  | Government
1968 | 212,661  | 47.7%  |

27 / 52

|  4  | Government
1970 | 315,560  | 59.8%  |

34 / 52

|  7  | Government
1972 | 353,775  | 67.4%  |

39 / 52

|  5  | Government
1974 | N/A |

36 / 52

|  3  | Government
1976 |

52 / 52

|  18  | Government
1978 | 766,673  | 90.3%  |

50 / 54

|  2  | Government
1982 | 273,383  | 18.6%  |  3rd  |

14 / 60

|  36  | Government
1985 | 80,730  | 8.3%  |

12 / 60

|  2  | Government
1988 | 78,756  | 8.5%  |

7 / 60

|  5  | Government
1991 | 94,531  | 9.0%  |  4th  |

9 / 84

|  2  | Opposition
1994 | 83,520  | 6.21%  |

4 / 84

|  5  | Opposition
1997 | 97,362  | 8.4%  |  3rd  |

11 / 84

|  7  | Opposition
2000 | 106,802  | 8.8%  |

13 / 84

|  2  | Opposition
2003 | 181,167  | 13.0%  |

16 / 84

|  3  | Opposition
2006 | 172,341  | 11.0%  |

10 / 84

|  6  | Opposition
2009 | 194,751  | 8.79%  |

11 / 84

|  1  | Opposition
2012 | 157,074  | 7.18%  |  4th  |

7 / 84

|  4  | Opposition
2015 | 154,093  | 6.77%  |

4 / 84

|  3  | Opposition
2018 | 230,862  | 10.87%  |  3rd  |

9 / 84

|  5  | Opposition
2021 | 102,848  | 4.12%  |  5th  |

2 / 84

|  7  | Government
2024 | 101,641  | 3.26  |  3rd  |

2 / 60

|  0  | Government

## See also

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* List of political parties in El Salvador
* Politics of El Salvador

## References

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1. ^ Haggerty, Richard A., ed. (1990). El Salvador: A Country Study (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. p. 21\. OCLC 44362656.
2. ^ Gerson Chávez (2019-12-02). "Afiliados PCN eligen dirigencia nacional y local" [PCN members elect national and local leadership]. diario.elmundo.sv (in Spanish).
3. ^ "Principios y Objetivos" [Principles and Objectives] (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2017-09-11.
4. ^ Juhn, Tricia (2016). Negotiating Peace in El Salvador. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 108.
5. ^ Smith, Alan (2016). "A Comparative Introduction to Political Science". Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 500.
6. ^ Birdsall, Nancy (2006). Short of the Goal: U.S. Policy and Poorly Performing States. Center for Global Development. p. 255.
7. ^ "Documentos Oficiales". Archived from the original on 2020-12-04.
8. ^ El Salvador Supreme Court disbands two parties, BBC News, 30 April 2011, retrieved 12 March 2012
9. ^ "TSE anuncia inscripción del partido Concertación Nacional", El Salvador Noticias, 23 September 2011, archived from the original on 23 September 2015, retrieved 12 March 2012
10. ^ 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
11. ^ Hernández, Silvia (30 January 2024). "Partido PCN Reitera Apoyo a la Candidatura Presidencial de Nayib Bukele" [PCN Party Reiterates Support for Nayib Bukele's Presidential Candidacy]. La Noticia SV (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 31 January 2024. Retrieved 18 February 2024.

## External links

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