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Legitimist Party (Nicaragua)

Center-right political party in Nicaragua from 1838 to 1851 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Legitimist Party (Spanish: Partido Legitimista, PL) was a conservative Nicaraguan political party, the first in its country. The power base of the Legitimist Party was in Granada. The Legitimists were opposed to the Democrats.[1][2] After several years of civil war between the Legitimists and the Democrats, a provisional government was established in June 1857 which had as its joint leaders the Legitimist Tomás Martínez and the Democrat Máximo Jerez.

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The Nicaraguan Conservative Party defines itself as a continuation of the Legitimist Party and traces its history back to PL's foundation in 1823.

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