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9-750: The NFR was founded in 1995. After the Assembly for the Sovereignty of the Peoples ' (ASP) success in the 1999 municipal elections in Cochabamba, the NFR offered ASP leader Alejo Véliz and other peasant activists top candidate positions and won them over. At the legislative elections in 2002, the party won 26.5% of the popular vote and 27 out of 130 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and two out of 27 seats in

18-559: A Bolivian political party is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Assembly for the Sovereignty of the Peoples The Assembly for the Sovereignty of the Peoples ( Spanish : Asamblea por la Soberanía de los Pueblos , ASP) was a political organization in Bolivia . It was formed as a "political instrument" of the popular movements of the country. Alejo Véliz was the national president of ASP. ASP

27-535: A prominent leader inside ASP. Soon he became a competitor of Veliz. Internal conflict emerged between the followers of Morales and Veliz, evistas and alejistas , surged. ASP wanted to contest the 1997 national elections , but never obtained the registration of a political party at the National Electoral Court. Instead the group contested the election of the lists of the United Left . Veliz

36-565: The 1999 municipal elections , ASP had still not obtained any registration. Contested the elections on the lists of the Communist Party of Bolivia (PCB). In Cochabamba Alejo Veliz ran for the post of mayor and received 1.1% of the votes in the city. Ahead of the 2002 general elections, a sector of ASP led by Hugo Moldiz denounced Veliz and declared their support for the candidacy of Evo Morales. 1999 Bolivian municipal elections Too Many Requests If you report this error to

45-427: The 2005 general elections the party received 0.7% of the popular vote and failed to win a seat. Its presidential candidate was Gildo Angulo Cabrera . In September 2009, the NFR participated in the formation of a broad oppositional coalition called Plan Progress for Bolivia – National Convergence (PPB-CN). The coalition's candidate in the 2009 presidential election was NFR's leader Reyes Villa. This article about

54-615: The Senate . Its candidate at the presidential elections , Manfred Reyes Villa , won 20.9% of the popular vote. After the election, the party joined the multiparty coalition of president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR). In October 2003, the NFR decided to leave the coalition and Reyes Villa and the other three NFR ministers resigned. This deprived the president of his congressional majority and forced him to resign. In

63-534: The 1997 elections a split occurred in ASP, and Evo Morales was expelled from the organization. In 1998 the supporters of Evo Morales founded the Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples (IPSP). Notably, the majority of the grassroots supporters of ASP sided with Morales in the split. One of the prominent ASP leaders who sided with Morales was Román Loayza Caero, leader of CSUTCB. Ahead of

72-575: Was a candidate for presidency and for parliament (on the proportional representation list). However, many trade unions decided not to support Veliz's candidature, accusing him of having manipulated the candidate lists of the United Left. Four ASP members of the Chamber of Deputies were elected from the Chapare province (the entire United Left group); Evo Morales, Román Loayza Caero , Félix Sanchéz Veizaga and Néstor Guzmán Villarroel . After

81-637: Was founded at a congress in Santa Cruz de la Sierra in 1995 titled 'Land, Territory and Political Instrument'. Present at the congress were CSUTCB , CSCB, the Bartolina Sisa National Federation of Peasant Women of Bolivia and CIDOB. The congress had been convened by CSUTCB following a decision at its congress in 1994. The Cochabamba peasant leader Alejo Véliz became the main leader of ASP with Evo Morales in second position. From 1996 onwards, Evo Morales began to rise as

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