Central American Unionist Party

The Central American Unionist Party (Spanish: Partido Unionista Centroamericano - PUCA) is a center-right Nicaraguan political party.

PUCA was originally established as a cultural grouping advocating 'Central Americanization' in 1904. Renamed the Committee of State in 1944, it began to act as a political party after the Sandanistas gained power in 1979.^[1] PUCA received legal status after the 1984 elections. As of 2006, PUCA is in the Constitutionalist Liberal Party electoral alliance.

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↑ Charles D. Ameringer, Political parties of the Americas, 1980s to 1990s: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1992, p.457

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Other legal parties	Alternative for Change Central American Unionist Party Communist Party of Nicaragua Christian Democratic Union Christian Unity Movement Ecologist Green Party of Nicaragua Independent Liberal Party for National Unity Marxist-Leninist Popular Action Movement Nationalist Liberal Party New Liberal Party Nicaraguan Party of the Christian Path Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (Conservative Party-Alliance for the Republic-Other minor parties) Nicaraguan Resistance Party Nicaraguan Socialist Party Party for Citizen Action Popular Conservative Alliance Sandinista Renovation Movement

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Central American Unionist Party

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