Left-wing Revolutionary Nationalist Movement – 1 explained

Left-wing Revolutionary Nationalist Movement - 1
Native Name:Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario de Izquierda - 1
Colorcode:pink
Colours:pink, brown
Leader:Francisco Figueroa
Country:Bolivia

The Left-wing Revolutionary Nationalist Movement – 1 (Spanish; Castilian: Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario de Izquierda-1, abbreviated MNRI-1) was a political party in Bolivia, that emerged as a splinter-group of the Left-wing Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNRI) ahead of the 1985 elections. MNRI-1 was formed by a peasant sector. 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).[1]

MNRI-1 disappeared shortly after the elections.[2] In December 1984 it had changed name to Revolutionary Alliance Movement (Movimiento de la Alianza Revolucionaria, MAR). MAR proclaimed itself as the sole genuine left-wing party in the country, denouncing the Democratic and Popular Union as 'bourgeois'.[3]

Notes and References

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