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Nicaraguan Party of the Christian Path

Partido Camino Cristiano Nicaragüense
Nicaraguan Party of the Christian Path Partido Camino Cristiano Nicaragüense
Abbreviation	CCN
Leader	Guillermo Osorno
Founder	Guillermo Osorno
Founded	1996
Dissolved	unknown
Ideology	Christian fundamentalism; Evangelicalism
Political position	Right-wing
Religion	Pentecostalism (Assemblies of God)
Colours	Light blue
National Assembly	0 / 92
Website
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	Politics of Nicaragua; Political parties; Elections;

The Nicaraguan Party of the Christian Path (Spanish: Partido Camino Cristiano Nicaragüense, CCN) was a Nicaraguan political party founded in 1996 by the Assemblies of God pastor and radio evangelist Guillermo Osorno.^[1] CCN participated for the first time in the Nicaraguan general elections in 1996 where they got 4.10% of the votes and 4 seats in the National Assembly.

In the 2001 nation election the party formed an alliance with the Constitutionalist Liberal Party and Nicaraguan Resistance Party. The coalition running under the name of the Constitutionalist Liberal Party won government with a majority of the votes.^[2]

References edit

^ Corwin E. Smidt; James M. Penning (1 January 1997). Sojourners in the Wilderness: The Christian Right in Comparative Perspective. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 230. ISBN 978-0-8476-8645-2.
^ Diana Vinding (1 January 2002). The Indigenous World 2001-2002. IWGIA. p. 92. ISBN 978-87-90730-70-3.