National Coalition (El Salvador)
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National Coalition Party
Partido de Concertación Nacional |
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| Leader | Manuel Rodriguez |
| Founded | September 30, 1961 (original) September 2011 (re-founded) |
| Headquarters |
 El Salvador
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| Ideology | Conservatism |
| Seats in the Legislative Assembly |
6 / 84
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| Mayors |
20 / 262
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| Central American Parliament |
1 / 20
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The National Coalition Party (Spanish: Partido de Concertación Nacional, PCN) is a conservative 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 revolution the party declined in influence but continued to exist.
Today, it is considered relatively minor as compared with the two major organizations, ARENA and the FMLN.
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.
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