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The People's Party (PP) (Spanish: Partido del Pueblo, PP) was a political party in Puerto Rico, founded by Roberto Sánchez Vilella in 1968.[1] It was also known as el Partido del Sol (the Party of the Sun) from its logo which featured a bright yellow rising sun.
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In 1964, PDP candidate Roberto Sánchez Vilella had become the second governor to be democratically elected in Puerto Rico.[2] The party remained in power until 1968, when Luis A. Ferré, of the then newly-founded New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico (PNP), won the elections due to the PDP's big division of 1968. This division happened because the PDP's founder, Luis Muñoz Marín, had personal and irreconcilable differences with then current governor, Roberto Sánchez Vilella.[3] Luis Muñoz Marín opposed Sánchez Vilella's attempt to run for reelection and at a party assembly he nominated his new candidate for governor Luis Negrón López. This caused a deep division in the Partido Popular Democratico (PPD) causing Sánchez Vilella to create a new party, the Partido del Pueblo (People's Party) [4], whose motto said "let the people decide" (que el pueblo decida), this motto was obviously directed towards Luis Muñoz Marín who denied Sánchez Vilella a primary. Sánchez Vilella ran under his new party and Negrón López under the PPD this caused the PPD's votes to split, thus giving Luis A. Ferré of the PNP (Partido Nuevo Progresista) the win and the PDP's first defeat in a general election.
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