People's Force

People's Force
Fuerza del Pueblo
AbbreviationFP
PresidentLeonel Fernández
Secretary-GeneralAntonio Florián
Founded17 October 2019 (2019-10-17)
Split fromDominican Liberation Party
Preceded byDominican Workers' Party
HeadquartersAvenida Bolívar no. 101, esquina Doctor Báez, Gazcue, Distrito Nacional
Membership (2023)1,920,000[1]
IdeologyProgressivism[2]
Social democracy
Political positionLeft-wing[3][4][5]
International affiliationForo de São Paulo
Colors    Green and white
Chamber of Deputies
27 / 190
Senate
3 / 32
Website
fuerzadelpueblo.do

The People's Force (Spanish: Fuerza del Pueblo, FP) is a political party in the Dominican Republic led by former President Leonel Fernández.

After fierce results and amid accusations of electoral fraud in the primary elections of October 2019, Leonel Fernández resigned from the presidency and militancy of the Dominican Liberation Party. Later, the already established Dominican Workers' Party welcomed him and agreed to change its name to "People's Force" and have Fernández as their presidential candidate,[6] a change approved by the Central Electoral Board on December 17 of that year.

  1. ^ "¿Realidad o exageración? Padrones del PRM, PLD, FP y PRD superan en total los 7 millones de militantes". 21 August 2023.
  2. ^ "PTD-'La Fuerza del Pueblo' fue un partido de izquierda". Listin Diario (in Spanish). 21 October 2019. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
  3. ^ "PTD-'La Fuerza del Pueblo' fue un partido de izquierda". Listin Diario (in Spanish). 21 October 2019. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
  4. ^ "Leonel Fernández y su partido son izquierdistas, afirma Méndez". Acento (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2022-12-15. Retrieved June 22, 2022.
  5. ^ "In the Dominican Republic, the President's Likely Reelection Bodes Well for the Economy, But Challenges Remain". Stratfor. Retrieved May 16, 2024.
  6. ^ "Conocerán el lunes solicitud cambio de nombre del PTD por La Fuerza del Pueblo". www.diariolibre.com (in Spanish). 5 December 2019. Retrieved December 9, 2019.