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 3.2.1 La Paz 3.2.2 Cochabamba 3.2.3 Oruro 3.2.4 Potosí 3.2.5 Tarija 3.2.6 Santa Cruz 3.3 Minor parties 4 Need to edit 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 2005 general election and the 2006 constituent assembly election.

National parties

The following political parties have presence in all nine departments.

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

Regional parties

The following parties have presence in only one department.

La Paz

• Alianza Social Patriótica (ASP)
• Movimiento Sin Miedo (MSM)
• Plan Progreso (PP)

Cochabamba

• Alianza por la Unidad Cochabambina (AUN), an electoral front created by Manfred Reyes Villa, formerly head of NFR

Oruro

• Movimiento Ciudadano San Felipe de Austria (MCSFA)

Potosí

• Alianza Social (AS)
• Movimiento Originario Popular (MOP)

Tarija

• Frente Revolucionario de Izquierda (FRI) - campaigned in alliance with MNR as Camino al Cambio (MNR-FRI)

Santa Cruz

• Alianza 3 - campaigned in alliance with MNR as A3-MNR
• Alianza Andrés Ibañez (AAI)
• Autonomía Para Bolivia (APB)

Minor parties

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

• Alianza de Bases (ALBA)
• Alianza Social Integradora (ASI)
• Convergencia Democrática Ciudadana (CDC)
• Movimiento Autónomo Regional (MAR)
• Movimiento de Acción Ciudadana (MACA)
• Movimiento de Integración Boliviana (MIBOL)
• Transformación Democrática y Patriótica (TRADEPA)
• Unidad Cívica Solidaridad (UCS)

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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