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 accommodation 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-Phillips.) The party defeated the ruling People's National Movement in the 1986 elections, winning 33 of the 36 seats in the national parliament.
Following a split in the party in 1988 (which led to the formation of the United National Congress), and the subsequent defections of five MPs to the Independent benches, 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 party suffered a further loss in 2004 when a portion of the Tobago wing of the party led by Hochoy Charles split away from the NAR and re-formed the DAC.
The NAR has no representation in the current parliament, and lost its last representatives in the Tobago House of Assembly in the January 2005 elections. Its current leader is Lennox Sankersingh .
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