The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement is a centre-right,conservative political party in Bolivia. It was the leading force behind the Bolivian National Revolution from 1952 to 1964. It influenced much of the country's history since 1941.
The Dominican Liberation Party is a political party in the Dominican Republic. Founded in 1973 by former president Juan Bosch,the party,along with the Dominican Revolutionary Party,and Social Christian Reformist Party,has dominated politics in the country since the establishment of democracy in the early 1960s. The PLD have won several elections since the late 1990s and had held control over much of the government until 2020,when the Modern Revolutionary Party won several governmental seats as well as the Presidency with the election of Luis Abinader as President. The PLD party's logo is a yellow five-pointed star on a purple background.
A perennial candidate is a political candidate who frequently runs for elected office and rarely,if ever,wins. Perennial candidates' existence lies in the fact that in some countries,there are no laws that limit a number of times a person can run for office,or laws that impose a non-negligible financial penalty on registering to run for election.
The National Unity Front is a political party in Bolivia. It was founded in late 2003 by Samuel Jorge Doria Medina Auza,who had broken with the Revolutionary Left Movement earlier that year. It has 36 members of the Chamber of Deputies in the Plurinational Legislative Assembly. Despite its substantial share of the urban vote,and 16 former mayors,it does not control any city halls or governorships. The party is closely identified with Doria Medina's cement company Sociedad Boliviana de Cemento (Soboce).
Rubén Armando Costas Aguilera is a Bolivian politician and the prefect and then governor of Santa Cruz Department in Bolivia from 2006 to 2021,and also the leader of the Democrat Social Movement (MDS).
General elections were held in Bolivia on December 6,2009,following a constitutional referendum held on 25 January 2009. The election was initially expected to be held in 2010. Voters elected:
Loyola Guzmán Lara is a Bolivian human rights and political activist,founder of the Latin American Federation of Associations for Relatives of Detained-Disappeared (FEDEFAM) and a previous member of the National Liberation Army of Bolivia (ELN).
Popular Consensus was a Bolivian political party founded in 2009. CP founder Óscar Ortiz Antelo was President of the Senate of Bolivia from 2008 to 2010. In the 2009 national election,the party formed an electoral alliance with the National Unity Front,the Consensus Alliance for National Unity,behind the candidacy of Samuel Doria Medina for president. During the 2010 regional election it was involved with the All for Cochabamba and We are all Chuquisaca alliances,and supported the candidacy of Rubén Costas for governor of Santa Cruz. In Pando,the party narrowly lost to the Movement towards Socialism in state elections,and thus formed the principal opposition. CP was replaced by the Social Democrat Movement ("Demócratas") in August 2013.
General elections were held in Bolivia on 12 October 2014,the second to take place under the country's 2009 constitution,and the first supervised by the Plurinational Electoral Organ,a newly created fourth branch of government. Incumbent President Evo Morales was re-elected for a third term.
The Social Democratic Movement,often shortened to just the Democrats,is a centre-right political party in Bolivia founded in 2013 for the movement for greater autonomy for the eastern departments of the Media Luna.
Ana María Flores Sanzetenea is a Bolivian engineer,businesswoman,ex-senator,and politician. She is also known for her candidacy for the presidency of Bolivia in the 2009 general election,in which she finished fifth.
Arturo Carlos Murillo Prijic is a Bolivian businessman,hotelier,and politician who served as minister of government from 2019 to 2020. As a member of the National Unity Front,he previously served as senator for Cochabamba from 2015 to 2019 and as a plurinominal member of the Chamber of Deputies from Cochabamba from 2006 to 2010.
Oscar Miguel Ortiz Antelo is a Bolivian businessman and politician who served as minister of economy and public finance from July to September 2020 and as minister of productive development from May to July 2020. As a member of the Social Democratic Movement,he previously served two terms as a senator for Santa Cruz from 2015 to 2020 on behalf of the Democratic Unity coalition and from 2006 to 2010 on behalf of the Social Democratic Power alliance. Nearing the end of his second term,Ortiz was his party's presidential candidate,attaining fourth place in the annulled 2019 general elections. During his first term,he served as president of the Senate from 2008 to 2010,the last opposition legislator to preside over the upper chamber as of 2023. Outside of national politics,Ortiz served as president of the Union of Latin American Parties from 2018 to 2021 and has been the rector of the Bolivian Catholic University at Santa Cruz since 2021.
The 2021 Bolivian regional elections were held on 7 March 2021. Departmental and municipal authorities were elected by an electorate of approximately 7 million people. This was the third regional election under the 2009 constitution. It was postponed from the expected date of 2020 due to the 2019 Bolivian political crisis and delays in holding the 2020 Bolivian general election. All elected authorities assumed office on 3 May.
Carmen Soledad Chapetón Tancara is a Bolivian politician with expertise in pedagogy. She was the first woman to serve as Mayor of El Alto,a post she held from 31 May 2015 through 3 May 2021.
Erik Morón Osinaga is a Bolivian economist and politician serving as substitute senator for Santa Cruz. A former member of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement —of which he was national leader from 2011 to 2016— he previously served as a plurinominal member of the Chamber of Deputies from Santa Cruz from 2015 to 2020 on behalf of the Democratic Unity coalition.
Miguel Ángel Feeney Parada is a Bolivian businessman,lawyer,and politician who served as a party-list member of the Chamber of Deputies from Santa Cruz from 2015 to 2020. As with many members of Santa Cruz's upper-class economic elite,Feeney's career began in the department's agribusiness sector before moving on to public service. Originally a partisan of Nationalist Democratic Action,Feeney switched allegiances to the National Unity Front in the mid-2000s,serving as the party's departmental leader for Santa Cruz. In 2006 and 2009,respectively,he unsuccessfully sought to be elected to the Constituent Assembly and the Chamber of Deputies before finally attaining the post of deputy in the 2014 election.
Saúl Octavio Lara Torrico is a Bolivian lawyer,jurist,and politician who has served as a party-list member of the Chamber of Deputies from Cochabamba since 2020. A member of Civic Community,he previously served as vice minister of the interior from 2003 to 2004 and as minister of government from 2004 to 2005. A graduate of the Higher University of San Simón,Lara spent much of his career as a legal advisor and consultant for various public and private institutions and corporations. From 1993 to 1997,he served as chief of staff to Foreign Minister Antonio Araníbar,during which time he joined the minister's party,the Free Bolivia Movement,of which he was secretary of finance. Appointed to head the Ministry of Government in 2004,Lara developed a lasting personal friendship with then-president Carlos Mesa,aiding his 2019 campaign to return to the presidency. The following year,he joined Civic Community's electoral list in the Cochabamba Department,netting a seat in the Chamber of Deputies in the 2020–2025 Legislative Assembly.
Shirley Franco Rodríguez is a Bolivian political scientist and politician who served as a party-list member of the Chamber of Deputies from Cochabamba from 2015 to 2020. She previously served on the Cochabamba Municipal Council from 2010 to 2014.
Fernando Campero Paz is a Bolivian economist and politician who served as substitute senator for Tarija from 2015 to 2020. He previously served as general manager of the Central Bank of Bolivia and the Bolivian Stock Exchange during the administration of Jaime Paz Zamora.
