Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party
The Partido Liberal Radical Ecuatoriano ( Ecuadorian radically liberal party) is one of the oldest parties in Ecuador.
1890 was based in Quito, the political organization Partido Liberal Nacional, under the leadership Eloy Alfaro had great importance in the Liberal Revolution. In competition with the ideologically oriented to Gabriel García Moreno Conservative Party of Ecuador or their precursors, the Liberal Party was in the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century one of the two decisive political force in the country. The PLRE was doing its support in the export, trade and banking center of Guayaquil and the surrounding coastal region of the country, while the Conservative Party in the traditional elites in the Andes region around the capital Quito had their support. The most important representatives of the party in this period were after the death of Eloy Alfaro ( murdered 1912) Leonidas Plaza Gutiérrez and Francisco Urbina Jado. Between 1912 and the July Revolution of 1925 provided the party with Plaza, Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno, José Luis Tamayo and Gonzalo Córdova four presidents in a row.
The Liberal Party was formally founded in 1925 after the July Revolution as Partido Liberal Radical Ecuatoriano and entered as the first party in the newly created party register. Important politicians were Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río and Raul Clemente Huerta.
Since the 1960s, the PLRE was decided weakened by a series of spin-offs. So, from its ranks in 1961 the Partido Popular Revolucionario Liberal, 1972, the Frente Radical Alfarista and 1980, the Partido Radical Demócrata.
1984 supported the PLRE León Febres Cordero in the Frente Nacional de Reconstrucción. Then the importance of the Liberal Party took off in the 2002 parliamentary elections, they could not achieve the necessary 5 % of the votes and was deleted from the Register of Political Parties. 2008, a party of the same name was re-registered and approved for election again.