sentences:  The founding of a national political party that had an existence beyond elections became the mechanism to control power through peaceful means.The political party had two previous names before taking its third and current name, but its core has remained the same.It has been characterized as a "in the 1960s as 'strongly dominant party', in the 1970s a 'pragmatic hegemonic state', and in the 1990s as a 'single party'".