National Alliance for Reconstruction
The National Alliance for Reconstruction (NAR) was the governing party in Trinidad and Tobago from 1986-1991. It was founded in 1986 out of an accomodation between the National Alliance (consisting of the United Labour Front led by Basdeo Panday, the Democratic Action Congress led by A.N.R. Robinson and the Tapia House Movment led by Lloyd Best) and the Organisation for National Reconstruction (led by Karl Hudson-Philips. The party defeated the ruling People's National Movement in the 1986 elections, winning 33 of the 36 seats in the national parliament.
The NAR was defeated in the 1991 general elections, winning only two seats. It retained those seats in the 1995 general elections and entered government as junior partner to the United National Congress. The party later withdrew from this arrangement, although its MPs remained in government. It won only one seat in the 2000 elections, and lost even that in the 2001 elections. The NAR has no representation in the current parliament, but it remains the minority party in the Tobago House of Assembly.