Sandinista Renovation Movement ( Sandinista Renovation Movement , Spanish: Movimiento Renovador Sandinista, MRS ) is a Nicaraguan left -wing political party founded on May 21, 1995 by Sandinista National Liberation Front (SFNC) activists to create a new political force that “claims true values” Sandinism , democracy and social justice. ”
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| Leader | Suyen Barahona Kuan |
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| Ideology | Democratic socialism , left social democracy , sandinism , left nationalism |
| International | Progressive Alliance |
| Allies and Blocks | Wide front for democracy |
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It was formed by those who left the SFNO because of disagreements with the leadership led by Daniel Ortega , who is accused of betraying the ideals of the 1979 Sandinista Revolution . Among the founders are well-known participants in the revolution: the left-wing radical priest and poet Ernesto Cardenal , the revolutionary and historian Dora Maria Telles , the former coordinator of the Government junta of the national revival and former vice president Sergio Ramirez , the commandant and ex-minister Luis Carrion Cruz , former members of the National SFNO leadership Henry Ruiz and Victor Tirado , musician and composer Carlos Mejia Godoy , activist of the feminist and Native American movements Mirna Cunningham; later, other Sandinists, disillusioned with Ortega and his entourage, such as Monica Baltodano , joined in.
In 2016, she joined the Progressive Alliance , formed by more than 130 Labor, Social Democratic, and center-left parties and organizations from around the world.
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History
Creation
The founding congress of the Sandinista Renewal Movement was held on May 21, 1995, on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Augusto Sandino (May 18, 1895). The congress adopted the fundamental documents of the new party: principles, program, charter, and elected its first national leadership.
From the very beginning, the founders of the Movement declared their commitment to the postulates of democracy, peace, social justice and civil strife. During 1994-1995, MRS representatives in the National Assembly took an active part in the development of constitutional reform.
In 1996, Sergio Ramirez and Arguello Leonel were nominated by the party as candidates for the posts of president and vice president, but received only 0.44% of the vote.
2006 Election
In the 2006 presidential and parliamentary elections, the MRS Alliance was formed around the party, led by former Mayor of Managua, Erty Levites, nominated as a presidential candidate in tandem with Edmundo Calderon, journalist and diplomat of the revolutionary Sandinista government.
The Alliance includes forces such as the Civil Action Party (PAC), the Movement for the Salvation of Sandinism, Nicaraguan Socialist Party (PSN), the Social Christian Party, the Green Environmental Movement, the Autonomous Women's Movement.
The MRS Alliance condemned the pact concluded between the SFNO and the Liberal-Constitutional Party , in fact aimed at dividing the spheres of influence and cementing the bipartisan system. In addition, he was one of the few forces that supported women's right to abortion in case of a threat to their mother’s life (the other four leading candidates, including those who turned to the socially conservative and patriarchal position of the Sandinists, opposed).
The election campaign unfolds favorably for the alliance, and its candidate in the polls strengthened its third place after the SFSS and the Nicaraguan liberal alliance (polls promised him even more than 20% and the prospect of competing for victory).
However, in the midst of the July 2, 2006 election campaign, Erty Levites died and was replaced by Edmundo Harkin Calderon ( Carlos Mejia Godoy became the candidate for the post of vice president).
As a result, Alliance candidate Harkin Calderon received 6.44% of the vote in the presidential election, and his list was 8.69% in the parliamentary election, securing the election of 5 deputies from the MRS. At the same time, the MRS received a quarter of the vote in Managua.
In opposition to D. Ortega
On June 11, 2008, in the context of the upcoming municipal elections in November, the Nicaraguan Supreme Electoral Council, controlled by the new president, Daniel Ortega, canceled the legal personality of MRS, marking it as “self-dissolving” (although it was just a month earlier that he published the final lists of candidates for mayor and local deputies, including candidates MRS). In protest against this Dora, Maria Telles went on a hunger strike against the “dictatorship of Ortega” (she went on hunger strike on the street, near the Cathedral of Managua, in the new center of the capital for 12 days, after which the doctors insisted on ending the hunger strike due to a health threat). As a result, this decision was canceled.
In the 2011 national elections, the MRS joined the alliance around the Independent Liberal Party , and Harkin Calderon was his vice presidential candidate. The movement managed to hold 2 deputies and 3 deputy deputies to the National Assembly, as well as one deputy to the Central American Parliament .
In October 2016, the Broad Front for Democracy ( Frente Amplio por la Democracia ) was created, in which the NRS participated together with various political organizations and social movements to fight against authoritarian trends in the country.
On October 4, 2018, an even wider union of forces opposing Ortega (43 public and political organizations and movements) was created around it - the “Blue-White National Unity” ( Unidad Nacional Azul y Blanco ). Its members, including the MRS, have played an important role in protest mobilization ongoing in Nicaragua since April 2018. The VIII MRS Congress was held on November 18, 2017.
Heads of the Movement
- 1995-1998 - Sergio Ramirez
- 1998-2007 - Dora Maria Telles
- 2007-2012 - Enrique Saens
- 2012—2017 - Ana Margarita Vihil
- 2017-present - Suien Barahona
Contacts
- Website: http: //partidomrs.org
- Blog: Zona Naranja. El blog
- Facebook: MRS Oficial
- Twitter: @ProtestaNica y @Partido_MRS
- TV Channel: MRS TV