Political parties

From Bolivian Politics

The following is a list of Bolivian political parties.

Contents 1 The party system 2 Categorizing Bolivia's political parties 3 Major parties 3.1 National parties 3.2 Regional parties 4 Minor parties 4.1 Parties that lost their registration in 2006 4.2 Parties that lost their registration in 2005 4.3 Parties that lost their registration in 2002-2003 5 Historical political parties 6 See also

The party system

Categorizing Bolivia's political parties

Major parties

The following political parties, civic associations, or electoral alliances won seats in the 2006 constituent assembly election. They are divided into national parties (those that ran candidates in every department) and regional parties (those that ran candidates in only one or a few departments).

National parties

• Acción Democrática Nacionalista (ADN)
• Concertación Nacional (CN)
• Frente de Unidad Nacional (UN)
• Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS)
• Movimiento Bolivia Libre (MBL)
• Movimiento de Ia Izquierda Revolucionaria - Nueva Mayoría (MIR-NM)
• Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR)
• Poder Democrático y Social (PODEMOS)

Regional parties

• Frente Revolucionario de Izquierda (FRI) - which ran as Camino al Cambio, in alliance with MNR
• Movimiento Sin Miedo (MSM) - which joined the MAS candidate list in La Paz
• Plan Progreso (PP) - part of the La Paz PODEMOS alliance
• Alianza 3 - Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (A3-MNR)
• Alianza Andrés Ibañez (AAI)
• Alianza Social (AS)
• Alianza Social Integradora (ASI)
• Alianza Social Patriotica (ASP)
• Autonomias para Bolivia (APB)
• Convergencia Democrática Ciudadana (CDC)
• Movimiento Autónomo Regional (MAR)
• Movimiento Ayra (AYRA)
• Movimiento Ciudadano San Felipe de Austria (MCSFA)
• Movimiento de Acción Ciudadana (MACA)
• Movimiento Originario Popular (MOP)

Minor parties

The following parties did not elect delegates in the most recent 2006 constituent assembly elecion.

• Movimiento de Integración Boliviana (MIBOL)
• Transformación Democrática y Patriótica (TRADEPA)
• Unidad Cívica Solidaridad (UCS)

Parties that lost their registration in 2006

• Frente Patriótico Agropecuario de Bolivia (FREPAB)
• Movimiento Indígena Pachakuti (MIP)
• Nueva Fuerza Republicana (NFR)
• Unión Social de Trabajadores de Bolivia (USTB)

Parties that lost their registration in 2005

• Movimiento Bolivariano (MOVIBOL)
• Vanguardia Institucional Mariscal de Ayacucho (VIMA)

Parties that lost their registration in 2002-2003

• Conciencia de Patria - Movimiento Patriótico (CONDEPA-MP)
• Falange Socialista Boliviana (FSB)
• Katarismo Nacional Democrático (KND)
• Libertad y Justicia (LyJ)
• Movimiento Ciudadano Para el Cambio (MCC)
• Movimiento Revolucionario Tupaq Katari de Liberación (MRTKL)
• Partido Comunista de Bolivia (PCB)
• Partido Fuerza Joven (PFJ)
• Partido Socialista (PS)
• Vanguardia Revolucionaria 9 de Abril (VR-9), formerly MNRV

Historical political parties

• Alianza Renovadora de Bolivia (ARBOL)
• Izquierda Unida (IU)
• Eje Pachakuti
• Political parties of the 1980s
• Political parties of the post-Chaco era
• Political parties of the liberal republic

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• Movimiento de Unidad Social Patriótica (MUSPA)

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Semi-Complete list: ACP, ARENA, ASP, AUR, FNP, FPU, FSN, FULKA, Independent, M-17, MFD, MKN, MPP, MRTK, PDB, PS-1, VSB.

See also

• Political party system