The Grand National Alliance ( Spanish : Gran Alianza Nacional ), commonly known as the "Alianza Rosada" ( Pink Alliance ), was a one-time electoral alliance in the Dominican Republic . The alliance was led by the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) and the Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC) . It lost the 16 May 2006 legislative elections.
10-467: The Dominican Revolutionary Party (Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Dominicano , PRD ) is a political party in the Dominican Republic . Traditionally a left-of-centre party and social democratic in nature, the party has shifted since the 2000s toward the political centre . The party's distinctive color is white. Traditionally, the party has two presidents: the "Titular President" and
20-636: The GNA List of political parties in the Dominican Republic [REDACTED] [REDACTED] This article lists political parties in the Dominican Republic . The Dominican Republic has a multi-party system , with two or three strong parties and a third party that is electorally successful. The PRM , the FP , and the PLD are considered major parties in the Dominican Republic, after
30-708: The Social Christian Reformist Party , and others the Grand National Alliance , that won 82 out of 178 deputies and 10 out of 32 senators. The Dominican Revolutionary Party led the alliance, however, winning about 60 seats in the chamber of deputies and 6 in the Senate. The party has been criticized for involvement in corruption, allowing right-wing paramilitary groups to operate from its soil for attacks launched into Haiti, and for becoming an increasingly conservative party serving
40-653: The last election . The parties listed below have at least one seat in either the Senate or the Chamber of Deputies after the 2024 general election . The parties listed below are not represented in Congress, but control at least one municipal council . Grand National Alliance (Dominican Republic) The electoral alliance was led by then-mayor political parties , the PRD ( El Partido Blanco - The "White" Party) and
50-439: The legislative elections , on 16 May 2002, the party won 41.9% of the popular vote and 73 out of 150 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 29 out of 31 seats in the Senate of the Dominican Republic . Its candidate at the presidential election on 16 May 2004, Hipólito Mejía , won 33.6% of the votes, failing to win a second term. In the 16 May 2006 legislative elections , the party formed together with its traditional opponent,
60-609: The "Acting President" (and actually, a sort of Vice-President); until 2010 the presidents and the Secretary-General were proscribed to run for any elected office. The party was founded in 1939 by several Dominican expatriated exiles living in Havana , Cuba , led by Juan Bosch . It was then established in the Dominican Republic on 5 July 1961. It was the first Dominican party based on populist and democratic leftist principles and an organization based on mass membership. Bosch
70-560: The PRSC ( El Partido Colorado - The "Reddish" Party), hence it was referred by its own organizers as the Pink Alliance (Pink being a combination of red and white). After the elections, the poor performance of the PRSC party left it out so bad that it had one more chance ( the 2008 Dominican Presidential elections ) to keep calling itself a major contemporary political party . Even its former presidential candidate, Eduardo Estrella ,
80-465: The interests of transnational capital over the poor majority. The last PRD president, Hipólito Mejía , has been especially criticized for supporting the Iraq War . in alliance with PPC , MCN , UD , LE in alliance with BS and PTD in alliance with UD , PRI , BIS , PQD , ASD , PNVC , in alliance with UD, MCN , PPC , BIS in alliance with UD , ASD , PRN as part of
90-479: Was elected president in 1962 in what is generally believed to be the first honest election in the country's history. Bosch later left the party in a dispute over its ideological direction and founded the Dominican Liberation Party on 16 December 1973. The PRD has won the presidency three other times—in 1978 ( Antonio Guzmán ), 1982 ( Salvador Jorge Blanco ) and 2000 ( Hipólito Mejía ). At
100-502: Was first ousted (through alleged internal ballot bribery) and later left the party before the 2008 elections, on grounds of severe political differences. After the failed alliance, the PRD and the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) are left as the de facto major political parties, changing the Dominican Multiple Party system to a Two-Party system . This article about a Dominican Republic political party
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