Democratic Revolutionary Front – New Alternative Explained

Democratic Revolutionary Front - New Alternative
Colorcode:	22B14C
Leader:	Luis Adolfo Siles
Foundation:	1980
Ideology:	Big tent Factions: Christian democracy Socialism Reformism Posadism
Country:	Bolivia

The Democratic Revolutionary Front – New Alternative (Spanish: Frente Democrático Revolucionario – Nueva Alternativa, FDR-NA) was a right-centrist electoral political alliance in Bolivia.

The FDR-NA was formed in Spring 1980 by:

• Christian Democratic Party, PDC;
• Alliance of the National Left, ALIN;
• Socialist Party-Guillermo Aponte Burela, PS-Aponte;
• Offensive of the Democratic Left, OID;
• Revolutionary Workers Party Trotskyist-Posadist, POR-TP.^[1]

In the 1980 general elections the FDR-NA presented as its presidential candidate Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas (OID) and Benjamín Miguel Harb (PDC) as vice-presidential candidate.^[2]

Notes and References

1. James Dunkerley. Bolivia: coup d'état. Latin America Bureau, 1980. P.16.
2. Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 2. [Oxford] [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. P.150.