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NICARAGUA'S PRESIDENT ENRIQUE BOLANOS SUPPORTS NEW PARTY AS ANTIDOTE TO HIS OWN.

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The de facto two-party system that has kept Nicaragua stalemated for years is now under some threat from an emerging new party. True enough, parties have come and gone through the years, each with its promises, its high-profile players, and each has served for a time as a magnet for the disaffected before disappearing or settling into a niche somewhere in the political background.

But this might be different. This new party, the Alianza por la Republica (Apre), purporting to be a wedge sharp enough to be driven between the Frente Sandinista para la Liberacion Nacional (FSLN) and the Partido Liberal Constitucionalista (PLC), is more an agglomeration of existing parties, something like the alliance that won the presidential election for Oscar Berger in Guatemala, but intended to endure as a party, not just a coalition.

In the case of Guatemala, the alliance was helped by, if not organized around, Berger, who could arguably have won on any ticket. Apre has a roughly similar situation in that President Enrique Bolanos has given the upstart a helping hand. In a move unprecedented in Nicaraguan politics, Bolanos, a member of the PLC, last week attended the Alianza's official inauguration as a party...

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