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FONHAPO

FOndo Nacional de HAbitaciones POpulares

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CONASUPO

COmpañía NAcional de SUbsistencias POpulares

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CNOP

Confederación Nacional de Organizaciones Populares

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UTESP

Unidad de Trabajadores Estatales y Sectores Populares

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AMACUP

Asociación Mexicana de Artes y CUlturas Populares

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FOP

Federación de Organizaciones Populares

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COPE

Cadena de Ondas Populares Españoles

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COPE

Cadena de Ondas Populares Española ( Popular Spanish Radio Network)

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FAPLA

Forças Armadas Populares de Libertação de Angola

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RDTP

Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares

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COPE

Cadena de Ondas Populares Españolas

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populares
Optimates (; Latin for "best ones", sg. optimas) and populares (; Latin for "supporters of the people", sg. popularis) are labels applied to politicians, political groups, traditions, strategies, or ideologies in the late Roman Republic. There is "heated academic discussion" as to whether Romans would have recognised an ideological content or political split in the label.Among other things, optimates have been seen as supporters of the continued authority of the senate, politicians who operated mostly in the senate, or opponents of the populares. The populares have also been seen as focusing on operating before the popular assemblies, generally in opposition to the senate, using "the populace, rather than the senate, as a means [for advantage]".References to optimates (also called boni, "good men") and populares are found among the writings of Roman authors of the 1st century BC. The distinction between the terms is most clearly established in Cicero's Pro Sestio, a speech given and published in 56 BC, where he framed the two labels against each other. With the publication of the Römische Geschichte in the 1850s, the German historian Theodor Mommsen set the enduring and popular interpretation that optimates and populares represented political parties, which he implicitly compared to the German liberal and conservative parties of his own day. Mommsen's paradigm, however, has been criticised by generations of historians, first by Friedrich Münzer, followed by Ronald Syme, who considered that Roman politics was marked by familial and individual ambitions, not parties. Other historians have pointed to the impossibility of applying such labels to many individuals, who could pretend to be popularis or optimas as they saw fit; the careers of Drusus or Pompey are for example impossible to fit into one "party". Ancient usage was also far from clear: even Cicero, while linking optimates to Greek aristokratia (ἀριστοκρατία), also used the word populares to describe politics "completely compatible with... honourable aristocratic behaviour".As a result, modern historians do not recognise any "coherent political party" under either populares or optimates, nor do those labels lend themselves easily to comparison with a modern left-right split. Democratic interpretations of Roman politics, however, have pushed for a re-evaluation which attributes an ideological tendency – e.g. populares believing in popular sovereignty – to the labels.

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