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The
Nacionalista Party (
Filipino:
Partido Nacionalista) is the oldest
political party in the
Philippines today and was responsible for leading the country throughout the majority of the
20th century since 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.
In the 14 May 2007
election, the party won 6 seats .
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:
Philippine Presidents and Vice-Presidents who run under the NP Party
Salvador Laurel (10th Philippine Vice-President, 5th Prime Minister; under President Corazon C. Aquino)
Emmanuel Pelaez (7th Vice-President of the Philippines; under Ferdinand E. Marcos)
Fernando Lopez (4th and 8th Philippine Vice President; under Diosdado Macapagal)
Senators
Manuel Briones (Former Senator)
Juan Ponce Enrile (Current Senator, moved to other party)
Blas Ople (Former Senator)
Cipriano Primicias, Sr. (Former Senator)
Claro M. Recto (Former Senator)
Eulogio Rodriguez (Former Senator)
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 from Metro Manila and Nacionalista president), Party Chairman
Pia Cayetano (Senator from Metro Manila)
Justin Marc Chipeco, (Laguna)
Emmylou Taliño-Santos, (North Cotabato)
Cynthia Villar, (Las Piñas City Representative)
Alan Peter Cayetano, (Senator from Metro Manila)
Laarni Lopez-Cayetano, (Taguig City-Pateros Representative)
Past party presidents
House Speaker Segio Osmeña (1907-1935; 1944-1953)
President Manuel Quezon (1935-1944)
Chief Justice and Senator Jose Yulo (1943-1946)
Senate President Eulogio Rodriguez (1953-1964)
Senate President Gil J. Puyat (1964-1980)
Mambabatas Pambansa and former House Speaker Jose B. Laurel, Jr. (1980-1989)
Vice-President and Prime Minister Salvador Laurel (1989-2003)
Senate President Manuel Villar (2003-Present)
Platform
The Nacionalista 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.
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.
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