Popular Movement for National Liberation

Popular Movement for National Liberation

The Popular Movement for National Liberation (Spanish: Movimiento Popular de Liberación Nacional, MPLN) was a left-wing political party in Bolivia.

In 1972, Ramiro Velasco Romero split from the Revolutionary Left Movement and founded the Popular Movement for National Liberation. [1]

In 1978, 1979, and 1980 the MPLN took part in an electoral coalition Democratic and Popular Union backing Hernán Siles Zuazo. [2]

In 1983, the Popular Movement for National Liberation merged with the Socialist Party-One. [3]

The Socialist Party-One presented Ramiro Velasco Romero as its presidential candidate in 1985 and 1993. [4]


Notes

  1. ^ Omar Chávez Zamorano, Susana Peñaranda de del Granado. Jaime Paz Zamora: un político de raza. S. Peñaranda y O. Chávez, 1997. P.102.
  2. ^ Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 2. [Oxford] [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. P.151.
  3. ^ Raúl Rivadeneira Prada. El laberinto político de Bolivia. Ed. CINCO - Centro de Investigación y Consultoría, 1984. P.63.
  4. ^ Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 2. [Oxford] [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. P.152.

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