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| position = Centre-left〔(Freedom in the World 2011 - Belize ), Freedom House. (accessed 23 October 2014)〕 | seats1_title = Seats in the Senate | seats1 = | seats2_title = Seats in the House | seats2 = | seats3_title = Local government | seats3 = 〔( MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS OFFICIAL RESULTS 4th MARCH 2015 ), Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission. (accessed 16 March 2015)〕 | colors = Blue and white | website = (PUP website ) | flag = 175px | country = Belize }} The People's United Party (PUP) is one of two major political parties in Belize. It is currently the main opposition party with 12 of 31 seats in the House of Representatives. It is a centre-left〔 Christian democratic party.〔〔 The party leader is Francis Fonseca, who currently serves as Belize's Leader of the Opposition. ==Overview== The PUP was founded in 1950 as an anti-colonial party while the country was ruled by the United Kingdom as British Honduras. Under George Cadle Price the PUP played a major role in negotiating Belize's self-government in 1964 and eventual independence in 1981. The PUP dominated local British Honduran and later Belizean politics from the mid-1950s until 1984, when it lost to the centre-right opposition United Democratic Party (UDP). The UDP has been the party's main opposition since the early 1970s. Under Price's leadership, the PUP returned to power in 1989 but was defeated by the UDP again in 1993. After Price's retirement in 1996, the PUP won a landslide victory in 1998 under the leadership of Said Musa. The PUP won 22 of the 29 seats in the House of Representatives in 2003. It subsequently held 21 seats after losing one to the UDP in a by-election in October 2003 after the death of one of its House members. After nearly 10 years in power under Musa the PUP decisively lost the February 2008 election to the UDP, winning only six out of 31 seats.〔("Belize's opposition party wins landslide in congressional elections" ), Associated Press (''International Herald Tribune''), February 9, 2008.〕 The party remains in opposition after the 2012 election, in which it was narrowly defeated by the UDP. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「People's United Party」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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