Nationalist Party
political party, Philippines
Also known as: NP, Nacionalista Party, PN, Partido Nacionalista
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establishment by Osmena
- In Sergio Osmeña
…Filipino statesman, founder of the Nationalist Party (Partido Nacionalista) and president of the Philippines from 1944 to 1946.
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place in Philippine history
- In Philippines: The period of U.S. influence
…in the 1907 election, the Nacionalista Party, advocating independence, won overwhelmingly. The Federalists survived with a new name, Progressives, and a new platform, ultimate independence after social reform. But neither the Progressives nor their successors in the 1920s, the Democrats, ever gained more than one-third of the seats in the…
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