Country: | Paraguay |
Solidary Country Party | |
Native Name: | Partido País Solidario |
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Split: | National Encounter Party |
Leader: | Carlos Filizzola Pallarés |
Foundation: | 2000 |
Ideology: | Democratic socialism Social democracy |
Position: | Centre-left |
Seats1 Title: | Chamber of Deputies |
Seats2 Title: | Senate |
Headquarters: | San José street, Asunción, Paraguay |
National: | Concertación |
Regional: | Foro de São Paulo |
Website: | www.paissolidario.org.py |
The Party for a Country of Solidarity (Spanish; Castilian: Partido País Solidario, PPS) is a political party in Paraguay. It was formed in 2000 when a faction of the National Encounter Party led by Carlos Filizzola broke away to create a new party.
The party originated in 1996 as a faction of the National Encounter Party, the Movimiento Participación Amplia, Integración Solidaridad (PAIS).[1] In 2000 Filizzola, who had been the National Encounter Party's President from April 1996 to March 1999, led the faction out of the National Encounter Party to form the Party for a Country of Solidarity.[1]
The party first contested national elections in 2003,[2] when it won two seats in the Chamber of Deputies with 3.3% of the vote. For the 2008 elections it was part of the Patriotic Alliance for Change, which won two seats.