Nationalist Liberal Party

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Nationalist Liberal Party Partido Liberal Nacionalista
Abbreviation	PLN
President	Anastasio Somoza García (first) Anastasio Somoza Debayle (last)
Founder	Anastasio Somoza García
Founded	1928 (1928)
Dissolved	July 20, 1979 (1979-07-20)
Preceded by	Liberal Party
Headquarters	Managua
Ideology	Nominal: Liberalism De facto: Authoritarianism National conservatism Personalism Somocismo
Political position	Right-wing to far-right
Colors	Red and Blue
Party flag
Politics of Nicaragua Political parties Elections

The Nationalist Liberal Party (Spanish: Partido Liberal Nacionalista, PLN) was a political party in Nicaragua.

When Anastasio Somoza García took power in 1936, the party aligned itself with the United States and other caudillos in Latin America, like Rafael Trujillo, Oswaldo López Arellano, and Fulgencio Batista.

From 1936 to 1979, the office of President of Nicaragua was held by members of the Nationalist Liberal Party. When the first phase of the Nicaraguan Revolution was won by the FSLN, the PLN was dissolved by the new government. Many Somoza loyalists later supported or joined Contras rebel groups.