Beloved Fatherland Party

{{Short description|Political party in Paraguay}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Infobox political party | country = Paraguay | name = Beloved Fatherland Party | native_name = Partido Patria Querida | colorcode = {{party color|Beloved Fatherland Party}} | abbreviation = PPQ | logo = Logo Partido Patria Querida.png | leader = Stephan Rasmussen<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 March 2024 |title=Patria Querida elige a Stephan Rasmussen como nuevo presidente |url=https://www.ultimahora.com/patria-querida-elige-a-stephan-rasmussen-como-nuevo-presidente |access-date=13 June 2025 |website=Última Hora |language=es}}</ref> | foundation = {{start date|2001|12|26|df=y}}<ref>https://www.patriaquerida.org/historia/ Historia - Patria Querida</ref> | registered = 4 March 2004 | ideology = Conservative liberalism<br />Civic nationalism | position = Centre to centre-right | headquarters = Padre Cardozo 469, Asunción, Paraguay | international = | seats1_title = Chamber of Deputies | seats1 = {{Composition bar|1|80|{{party color|Beloved Fatherland Party}}}} | seats2_title = Senate | seats2 = {{Composition bar|1|45|{{party color|Beloved Fatherland Party}}}} | website = [http://www.patriaquerida.org/ www.patriaquerida.org] }}

The '''Beloved Fatherland Party''' ({{langx|es|Partido Patria Querida}}, '''PPQ''') is a political party in Paraguay.

==History== Established in 2001, the party first contested national elections in 2003,<ref name=N1>Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p. 428 {{ISBN|978-0-19-928358-3}}</ref> when it won 10 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and seven in the Senate, becoming the joint third-largest party. Its presidential candidate Pedro Fadul received 21.9% of the popular vote.

In the 2008 elections it was reduced to three seats in the Chamber and four in the Senate, whilst Fadul won 2.5% of the vote in the presidential election. In the elections five years later, the party's seat share was reduced to one seat in the Chamber and none in the Senate, while the party's presidential candidate Miguel Carrizosa received 1.1% of the vote in the presidential election.<ref>{{cite web |title=Election Observation Mission of the European Union in Paraguay (2013 General Election)|url=https://eeas.europa.eu/archives/eueom/missions/2013/paraguay/pdf/informe-final-paraguay-2013_en.pdf |website=European Union External Action Service |publisher=European Union Election Observation Missions |access-date=27 August 2021}}</ref> In the 2018 elections, the party secured three seats in both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.<ref>{{cite web |title=Election Observation Mission of the European Union in Paraguay (2018 General Election) |url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/212530/Paraguay-general-elections_22-April-2018__EU-EOM-report_EN.pdf |website=European Union External Action Service |publisher=European Union Election Observation Missions |access-date=27 August 2021}}</ref>

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Category:Paraguayan nationalism Category:Political parties in Paraguay Category:Political parties established in 2002 Category:2002 establishments in Paraguay