Leftwing Revolutionary Nationalist Movement – 1

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Revolutionary Nationalist Leftwing Movement - 1
Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario de Izquierda - 1
LeaderFrancisco Figueroa
Colourspink, brown

The Leftwing Revolutionary Nationalist Movement – 1 (Spanish: Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario de Izquierda-1, abbreviated MNRI-1) was a political party in Bolivia, that emerged as a splinter-group of the Revolutionary Nationalist Leftwing Movement (MNRI) ahead of the . MNRI-1 was formed by a peasant sector.[1] The presidential candidate of MNRI-1 was Francisco Figueroa and their candidate for vice president was Marcos Chuquimia. The Figueroa-Chuquimia ticket obtained 11,696 votes (0.78% of the national vote).[2]

MNRI-1 disappeared shortly after the elections.[1] In December 1984 it had changed name to Revolutionary Alliance Movement (Movimiento de la Alianza Revolucionaria, MAR). MAR proclaimed itself as the sole genuine leftwing party in the country, denouncing the Democratic and Popular Union as 'bourgeois'.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America. 1995. ISBN 9780804765374.
  2. ^ http://catarina.udlap.mx/u_dl_a/tales/documentos/lri/aguirre_g_md/apendiceA.pdf
  3. ^ Rivadeneira Prada, Raúl. Agresión política: el proceso electoral 1989. La Paz: Libr. Ed. Juventud, 1989. p. 14
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