After using the influence of the National Guard to support Sacasa's re-election in 1936, Somoza Garcia flouted civilian power, installing military cronies in key civilian posts and then deposed Sacasa in a coup d'état held in June that same year. With an ally appointed interim president, Somoza Garcia then resigned from the position of Chief Director of the National Guard in order to meet the constitutional requirements to run for the presidency himself. Breaking with the Liberal party, he established the "Partido Liberal Nacionalista" (PLN, National Liberal Party) and won the presidential election with a remarkable 107,201 votes to 108. On 1 January 1937, President Somoza Garcia reappointed himself again Chief Director of the National Guard, installing a corrupt military dictatorship linked to U.S. business interests that would last four decades.