The Republican Party is one of the two most popular political parties in the United States.
Republican is an adjective linked to the republic (a mode of organization of a State ). The concept is used, in its broadest sense, with reference to citizens living in a republic or with respect to the defenders of this form of government.
Throughout history , different political or social sectors were defined as republicans. During the Spanish Civil War that took place between 1936 and 1939 , the Republican side was the one that defended the Second Spanish Republic and fought the right-wing faction.
The Republican side in Spain
The Spanish republicans, with the support of the Soviets and other countries , opposed the totalitarianism of Franco's regime. Although there were different currents within it, the republican side was close to socialism and communism. These currents were the federalist, the unitary (also called centralist , and the independentist ones.
The unitary republicans and the federals were at odds; The ideology of the latter placed the Republic at the level of local associations, so that citizens could participate in issues of public interest and thus decentralize power. The independentistas, for their part, defended the idea that the territories should be independent of the State in which they are limited.
A conservative party in the United States
In the United States , the Republican Party represents the most conservative sector of society . Since the second half of the 19th century , Republicans have alternated in power with Democrats , with a more liberal and progressive position.
Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George Bush y George W. Bush fueron algunos de los presidents republicanos que ha tenido Estados Unidos a lo largo de su historia.
Another name by which the North American Republican Party is known is "The Big Old Party", and it is one of the two most prominent in the country , along with the aforementioned Democratic Party. It is worth mentioning that Barack Obama , the first president of African-American descent, belongs to the latter. At the end of 2015, the Democratic Party held the majority in the Senate and the House of Representatives, despite the fact that its president was a Republican.
Republican Donald Trump was president of the United States between 2017 and 2021.
The history of the Republican Party
Regarding the history of the Republican Party, it all began in 1854, when the Whig Party ceased to exist, after a period in which its disintegration had taken place, despite having maintained second place in importance for two decades (until At that time, the Democratic Party had greater weight).
It was at the end of March of that year that the founding of the Republican Party took place, in the context of a meeting in a small school in the State of Wisconsin, in which the members of the Local Whig Committee participated, to agree on its transformation . It is worth mentioning that they chose the name "Republican" to honor the founder of the then-defunct "Democratic-Republican Party", Thomas Jefferson.
This event gave rise to the rest of the Whig Committees to follow the example, until the celebration of the State Conventions of the Republican Party was possible, the first of which dates back to July 6, in the State of Michigan. Although most of its members descended from the Whig Party, some came from the Democratic Party, while the rest had belonged to others or were independents.
Germany, Portugal y Venezuela son otros países que cuentan con partidos políticos que se autodefinen como republicanos y mantienen el término en su denominación.
A neighborhood of Asunción
Republicano , finally, is the name of a neighborhood located in Asunción , the Paraguayan capital.
Nearly 10,000 people live in this neighborhood, which occupies an area of 0.97 square kilometers .