The Partido Liberal Constitucionalista (PLC) is a Liberal Party in Nicaragua. It was founded in 1984 as the successor organization of the Partido Liberal Nacionalista, which served the Somoza clan as a vehicle for its dictatorship. As a predecessor, the party story is the Movimiento Liberal Constitucionalista (MLC) of Ramiro Sacasa Guerrero (a Minister of Labor under Anastasio Somoza García). She participated in the Unión Nacional Opositora coalition, whose joint presidential candidate of the election on 25 February 1990, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro. In the presidential elections in 1996 the party member Arnoldo Alemán, an alliance organized the Alianza Liberal.
In the parliamentary elections in Nicaragua on 4 November 2001, the Partido Liberal Constitucionalista won 53.2% of the votes and 47 of the 90 seats in the Asamblea Nacional de Nicaragua. The PLC had the majority in the Asamblea Nacional de Nicaragua from 2000 to 2007. As a member of the Partido Liberal Constitucionalista, Enrique Bolaños Geyer won 56.3% of the votes in the 2001 presidential election. Until 2005, the PLC was a member of the Liberal International. The party chairman is Jorge Castillo Quant. Alliance for the RepublicQuelltext bearbeiten
In 2004, Enrique Bolaños Geyer founded the Alianza por la República with dissidents from the PLC and the Partido Conservador. Alianza Liberal NicaraguenseCode the source text
In 2006, Eduardo Montealegre and other dissidents of the PLC founded the Alianza Liberal Nicaraguense. Edit PactoQualtext
The chairman of the PLC, Arnoldo Alemán, has agreed with Daniel Ortega that 35% of the votes cast suffice to be elected President of the Republic of Nicaragua. Through the Pacto of Arnoldo Alemán and Daniel Ortega the members of the Partido Liberal Constitucionalista are involved in an intrasparent power calculus.
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