Political flags of Paraguay

Last modified: 2006-05-13 by antonio martins
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• A.N.R. - Asociación Nacional Republicana — Partido Colorado
• P.L.R.A. - Partido Liberal Radical Auténtico
• P.P.Q. - Partido Patria Querida
• Unace - Unión Nacional de Ciudadanos Éticos

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• Emblems of Paraguayan political parties
  reported by António Martins, 16 Jan 2006

About Paraguayan political parties

The website of PYglobal, with the emblems of all current Paraguayan political parties, shows different colors for each party (visible when overflying the mouse pointer on the party name); these seem to agree with the known official colors:

Of these, the most important (juding from recent results) are the traditional Colorados and Liberales, both with stars as their main symbol. Some of the smaller parties share names and logos with parties in neighbour countries (Argentina and Uruguay)

António Martins, 15 Jan 2006

Asociación Nacional Republicana — Partido Colorado
A.N.R. (Red Party)

Partido Liberal Radical Auténtico
P.L.R.A. (Authentic Liberal Radical Party)

Partido Patria Querida
P.P.Q. (Dear Fatherland Party)

The emblem is roughly a horizontal tricolor of red-white-blue (suitably patriotic), showing at the top the bottom part of a red flag flying and at the bottom the top part of a blue flag flying, against a white background. (This square may be interpreted as a cropped scene of flag-waving Haitian or Liechtensteinian patriots, or perhaps a mixed group of supporters of the two major parties!…)
António Martins, 15 Jan 2006

Spanish original, taken from the offcial Senate website which somebody here hopefully can translate into english: «Art. 3. - Las siglas serán P.P.Q.; color celeste; »…« logo: bandera celeste con una insignia cuadrada multicolor y la inscripción "PATRIA QUERIDA".»
Knut A. Berg, 20 Dec 2004

(The same text is at the party’s official website.) This means that the party acronym is "P.P.Q.", that its color is sky blue (classically understood as very light blue), and that its logo is a sky blue flag (!?) with a square multicolored emblem and the lettering "PATRIA QUERIDA" (="Dear Fatherland").
António Martins, 15 Jan 2006

Unión Nacional de Ciudadanos Éticos
Unace (Ethical Citizens’ National Union)

Spanish original, taken from the offcial Senate website which somebody here hopefully can translate into english:

Art. 2º. SÍMBOLOS: EL PARTIDO UNIÓN NACIONAL DE CIUDADANOS ÉTICOS adopta como símbolos su propia denominación, las siglas UNACE, la bandera con las siguientes características: color gris; cuya distribución consiste en cuatro porciones en forma horizontal; dos de ellas más pequeñas y las otras dos de mayor superficie. En el centro de la misma, la bandera está cruzada por dos porciones: una horizontal y otra vertical que forman en su conjunto una cruz de color blanco. En la parte vertical de la cruz se halla inserta la inicial UNACE escrita en color verde y en la parte horizontal de la misma siete estrellas de color amarillo. En la porción más pequeña, ubicada en el ángulo superior izquierdo, se halla insertado el dibujo de una herradura con fondo azul en cuyo centro se halla escrita la denominación "Unión Nacional de Ciudadanos Éticos" escrito en color blanco. En el centro del dibujo de la herradura se halla dibujado el mapa del Paraguay, de color verde, y en el centro de éste un caballo alazán cuyo jinete lleva un poncho de color blanco y gris. Adopta como emblema una bandera con siete franjas rojas y siete franjas blancas horizontales iguales, con siete estrellas blancas en la franja superior y la herradura de la bandera del Partido.

(See here the horseshoe emblem.)

Knut A. Berg, 20 Dec 2004

I swear I cannot understand the text above: Firstly the flag description is a mess — it seems to be gray with a white off-centered cross thoughout, with green letter on the horizontal arm and seven yellow stars on vertical arm with the paty emblem on the upper hoist.

Secondly, after a long description of a flag, which is one of the adopted symbols, the text adds that the party adopted as its emblem a flag (!?), this with 14 red and white horizontal equal stripes and seven white stars on the top stripe and the «horseshoe of the party flag». So, we have a flag which is a symbol, and then a flag which is an emblem.

António Martins, 15 Jan 2006

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