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PNP and was
The People's National Party ( PNP ) was founded in 1938.
Michael Manley was the first PNP prime minister in 1972.
Manley resigned for health reasons in 1992 and was succeeded as leader of the PNP by Percival Patterson.
The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party ( PNP ) was founded in 1922.
The PNP began to grow with the leadership of Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos, who was later jailed by the colonial regime under charges as a subversive leader.
The New Progressive Party ( PNP ) was founded in August, 1967 by Luis A. Ferré, a month after the July 23, 1967 local plebiscite and the year before the PNP won the 1968 elections.
Upon their return to Freetown on May 4, 1960, Stevens was promptly expelled from the People's National Party ( PNP ).
Nevertheless, he was the candidate from the New Progressive Party ( PNP ) for whom the most votes were cast in the 1988 Elections.
The PC ( now PNP ) Headquarters in Quezon City was named after him.
Supporters of his opponent Edward Seaga and the Jamaica Labour Party ( JLP ) and Manley's People's National Party ( PNP ) engaged in a bloody struggle which began before the 1976 election and ended when Seaga was installed as Prime Minister in 1980.
A State of Emergency was declared by Manley's party the PNP in June and 500 people, including some prominent members of the JLP, were accused of trying to overthrow the government and were detained, without charges, in a specially created prison at the Up-Park Camp military headquarters.
The PNP was returned to office.
Seaga's administration had fallen out of favor – both with the electorate and the US – and the PNP was re-elected.
On 26 February 2006, Portia Simpson-Miller was elected as Patterson's successor, becoming the first female president of the PNP and became the Prime Minister of Jamaica.
In the 29 December 2011 general election, the PNP was returned to power with 42 of the 63 seats in Jamaica's parliament.
Rivera, a member of the New Progressive Party ( PNP ), was asked several times by party officials to run for governor, but he always declined.
Until February 2006 he was the leader of the Jamaican People's National Party ( PNP ).
The party's main leader was then-mayor of San Juan Hernán Padilla, a pro-statehood leader and founder of the Partido Nuevo Progresista, PNP.
Simpson Miller, as leader of the governing People's National Party ( PNP ), was sworn in as Prime Minister on 5 January 2012, succeeding Jamaica Labour Party ( JLP ) leader Andrew Holness.
Despite careful planning and the skill of Ramzi Yousef, the Bojinka plot was disrupted after a chemical fire drew the Philippine National Police's ( PNP ) attention on January 6 and January 7, 1995.
On August 20, 1967, at the assembly in Carolina, Puerto Rico at which the organization was dissolved, Padilla and other party leaders proposed the creation of a new political party that would eventually be known as the New Progressive Party ( NPP ) or Partido Nuevo Progresista ( PNP ) in Spanish.
In March 2002 he was elected leader of the then opposition PNP thus succeeding Washington Misick.
The Parti national populaire or PNP ( in English: " Popular National Party " ) was a minor political party in Quebec, Canada that operated in the 1970s.

PNP and defeated
In 1980, the Jamaica Labour Party led by Edward Seaga overwhelmingly defeated the PNP, after several years characterised by inflation and rising unemployment, and in a campaign noteworthy for an alarming level of violence.
In the November 15, 1976 general elections, Fabien Roy was the only PNP candidate elected, while Choquette was defeated, placing third in his riding with 14. 2 % of the vote, behind the Liberal and Parti Québécois candidates.
* The Parti National du Progrès or PNP, was second, was defeated as national party by the MNC-L.
However, when the defeated 2004 PNP gubernatorial candidate, Pedro Rosselló, gained a seat in the Senate and tried to oust President Kenneth McClintock, Parga was one of the six Senators that supported the latter and refused to support Rosselló.
As a direct result of this act of state brutality, over 1, 400 persons were murdered in Jamaica between 1978-1980 when the Michael Manley led PNP was defeated by the opposition JLP led by Edward George Phillip SEAGA who ruled until 1989 when he lost the General elections.

PNP and first
Patterson led the PNP to victory in 1993, 1997, and 2002, becoming the first political leader in Jamaican history to win three successive general elections.
At first, 41 seats had been counted in favour of the PNP.
On July 5, 2007, Parga announced that, rather than file for reelection under the PNP banner, he would aspire to become the first independent candidate to win an election to the Senate and put all his Senate leadership positions at McClintock's disposal.

PNP and universal
Manley and the PNP supported the trade union movement, then led by Alexander Bustamante, while leading the demand for universal adult suffrage.

PNP and elections
When the PNP and Manley returned to power in 1989 they continued the more moderate policies and were returned in the elections of 1993 and 1998.
Although he has had limited success at the voting booth regarding his candidacy for the colonial post of Governor of Puerto Rico in 1976, 1980, 1988, 2000 and 2004-losing every time to either the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ) or the New Progressive Party ( PNP ) candidate-he nevertheless has enjoyed great electoral success regarding his candidacy to the Senate, receiving more votes than any other candidates in the Puerto Rican senatorial elections of 1972, 1984, 1992 and 1996.
It went on to win the 1949 elections with a reduced majority, before losing power to the PNP in the 1955 elections.
The PDM lost the elections to the Progressive National Party ( PNP ), which supported continued British rule.
Under the careful guidance of the governor and the advisory council, a new constitution for the Turks and Caicos Islands was created and elections held in 1988, with the PNP winning by a landslide, and Washington Misick becoming the new chief minister.
The elections resulted in a " mixed " government with PPD's Aníbal Acevedo Vilá as governor, and the PNP dominating both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
On September 10, 2008, San Juan District Court rejected the pleas of the PNP to expel Jorge De Castro Font from the ballot for the upcoming elections.
Surprisingly, De Castro Font won a slot in the PNP ballot at the PNP primaries, and on the 2008 general elections held on November 4, he was reelected as Senator despite his legal troubles.

PNP and held
Elections in the Turks and Caicos Islands were held on 24 April 2003 and again on 9 February 2007 with the PNP, led by Michael Misick, winning both.
Ultimately, Puerto Rico, while under the PNP leadership of Governor Rosselló, held a status referendum on December, 1998, using criteria from the Bill, despite the lack of a Bill's approval.

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