Nationalist Citizens' Party

Nationalist Citizens' Party
Nationalist Citizens' Party
Founded 1957
Dissolved 1972
Preceded by Citizens' Party
Ideology Nationalism, protectionism
Political position Center-right
Official colours Green
Politics of the Philippines
Political parties
Elections

The Nationalist Citizens' Party (NCP; Lapiang Makabansa) was a Philippine nationalist party established by Claro M. Recto and Lorenzo Tañada in 1957. Recto became its presidential candidate for the 1957 presidential election, where he was defeated, getting 9% of the vote. Tañada was eventually elected to the Senate under the party in 1959.

History

With President Ramon Magsaysay's death in 1957, several members of his Nacionalista Party (NP) became dissatisfied with Carlos P. Garcia (Magsaysay's vice president who succeeded him). These members bolted out of the NP and established the Progressive Party, while Recto and Tañada established the Nationalist Citizens' Party, with Recto resigning from the NP and merging with Tañada's Citizens' Party.[1][2]

The NCP, with an anti-foreign platform, participated in the 1957 elections and were defeated: Recto and Tañada came in at fourth place in the presidential and vice presidential elections, respectively (they are elected separately) with 7% of the vote, behind Garcia (NP) and Diosdado Macapagal (Liberal Party). The nationalist undertaking was described as "an elitist undertaking, popular in the press... but largely ignored by the Filipino masses." While the NCP never "considered a broad democratic party," and was labeled as a "businessman's nationalism," they were able to influence Garcia's administration by adopting a "Filipino First policy" which favors Philippine-made products over foreign-made ones.[3]

The cooperation between the NP and the NCP produced an appointment of Garcia of Recto to his cabinet, and an NP-NCP alliance for the 1959 Senate election, where Tañada won a Senate seat. However, Recto died in 1960, and nationalism and Garcia's Filipino First policy was branded by the Liberals as corrupt; Garcia and the NP lost the 1961 presidential and vice presidential elections to Macapagal and Emmanuel Pelaez.[4]

Tañada would later be reelected to the Senate under the NCP banner in 1965 for the last time.

References

  1. ^ Pomeroy, William (1992). The Philippines: Colonialism, Collaboration, and Resistance!. International Publishers Co., Inc.. p. 215. ISBN 9780717806928. 
  2. ^ Simbulan, Dante (2005). The modern principalia: the historical evolution of the Philippine ruling class. University of the Philippines Press. pp. 163–164. ISBN 9715424961. 
  3. ^ Chapman, William (1988). Inside the Philippine Revolution. I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.. p. 47. ISBN 1850431140. 
  4. ^ Pomeroy, William (1992). The Philippines: Colonialism, Collaboration, and Resistance!. International Publishers Co., Inc.. pp. 219–223. ISBN 978-0717806928. 

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