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Liberal Reformist Party (Dominican Republic)

minor liberal party in the Dominican Republic

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ16966438 ↗
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The Liberal Reformist Party (Spanish: Partido Reformista Liberal or PRL), formerly the Liberal Party of the Dominican Republic (Spanish: Partido Liberal de la República Dominicana or PLRD) is a liberal political party in the Dominican Republic. The party was originally named La Estructura, the name under which it contested the 1986 general elections as part of an alliance with the defeated Dominican Revolutionary Party. For the 1990 elections it changed its allegiance to the victorious Social Christian Reformist Party. For the 2006 elections it was part of the victorious Progressive Bloc.

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This entry incorporates text from “Liberal Reformist Party (Dominican Republic)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.