Last modified: 2004-12-28 by francisco gregoric
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![[Flag of the Corriente Popular]](../images/u/uy}cp.gif)
The Corriente Popular (Popular Trend) is a party that is a member of the Encuentro Progresista-Frente Amplio-Nueva Mayoría coalition, that won the elections of October 2004. The socialist doctor Tabaré Vázquez was elected as President of Uruguay in that election. The most important leader of the Popular Trend is deputy (representative) Carlos Pita.
The Corriente Popular was originally the Corriente Popular Nacionalista (Nationalist Popular Trend), an internal group of Partido Nacional that broke with that traditional party and transformed itself in an independent political party. The Corriente Popular Nacionalista was founded in 1983 and split from the National Party in 1986. In 1987 after a trial, the electoral court forbids the group the right to use the name Nacionalista (Nationalist) and that way it becomes Corriente Popular. The group enters in the Frente Amplio the same year of 1987.
Its first flags showed its ties with the National Party, with the acronym "CPN", that was changed after that to "CP". In the first time, the "peace dove" was kept (with a different design) by the group. For the elections of 1999 the party continued a similar design in the fonts that was finally changed to the present design of flag (absolutely new) after the 1999 elections.
Francisco Gregoric, 15 Dec 2004