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Civic Community
Comunidad Ciudadana
LeaderCarlos Mesa
Senate spokespersonAndrea Barrientos
Chamber spokespersonCarlos Alarcón
Founded13 November 2018; 6 years ago (2018-11-13)
Membership (2019)88,122[1]
IdeologyLiberalism
Constitutionalism
Third Way
Social democracy
Political positionCentre[2][3] to centre-left[4]
Colours  Dark Orange
  Orange
  Green
Members
List
Senate
11 / 36
Chamber of Deputies
39 / 130
Governorships
0 / 9
Mayors
6 / 337
Website
https://comunidadciudadanabo.com/

Civic Community[5][6] (Spanish: Comunidad Ciudadana, CC) is a liberal Bolivian political coalition led by former president Carlos Mesa, founded in 2018 to contest the 2019 general election. It was born of the alliance of Revolutionary Left Front (FRI), Sovereignty and Freedom (Sol.Bo), All Organization, and Kochala Force parties.[7][8] The alliance holds Mesa's presidential candidacy, with former minister Gustavo Pedraza as his running mate. The CC elected 50 deputies and 14 senators in the country's Plurinational Legislative Assembly in the election.

The CC campaign focused on condemning the candidacy of incumbent president Evo Morales to a controversial but legal fourth consecutive five-year term. The election took place on October 20, 2019. With a preliminary vote count of 45% for incumbent president Evo Morales and 38% for his leading challenger, former president Carlos Mesa, after 83% of votes were counted, neither of those conditions appeared likely to be met. A second-round runoff vote between those two candidates would therefore be held on 15 December.[9]

After that figure of 83% of the total, however, no further updates to the preliminary results were made after 19:40 hours local time, which caused consternation among opposition politicians and the election monitors deployed by the Organization of American States; candidate Mesa described the suspension as "extremely serious" and spoke of manipulation, while the OAS said an explanation was essential. The electoral authorities explained that updates to the preliminary count had been halted because the official results were beginning to be released; nevertheless, no official results were published overnight.[10]

Constituent parties

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2019

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On 6 October 2018, former president Carlos Mesa accepted the invitation of the Revolutionary Left Front (FRI) to be the party's presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections.[11] Soon after, various parties expressed their interest in forming a unified opposition alliance with Mesa at the helm.[12] On 24 October, La Paz Mayor Luis Revilla announced that his Sovereignty and Liberty (SOL.bo) civic group had decided to support Mesa's candidacy.[13] After a 26-minute walk through the Central Urban Park La Paz on 30 October, Revilla and Mesa, before the media, presented their "Citizen" alliance.[14] The pact was formalized the following day.[15] Civic Community (CC) was registered with the Supreme Electoral Tribunal on 13 November 2018 as a coalition between the FRI, SOL.bo, and over 50 citizens platforms.[16] The coalition was further expanded the following day, when CC signed an alliance with TODOS, the regional party of Tarija Governor Adrián Oliva.[17]

Despite last minute hopes of constructing a "greater agreement" between CC and the two largest opposition fronts, the National Unity Front (UN) and the Democrat Social Movement (MDS), both parties registered their own alliance dubbed "Bolivia Says No".[18][19]

Party Ideology Type Registration
Revolutionary Left Front Reformism, Social democracy Political party National
Sovereignty and Liberty Social democracy Civic group La Paz

2020–2021

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Main article: 2021 Bolivian regional elections

CC contested regional elections for the first time in 2021. In all but three departments, CC ran its own candidates under the variant name Civic Community – Autonomies for Bolivia (Comunidad Ciudadana-Autonomías para Bolivia, CA). The exceptions were in Beni where it aligned with Creemos to form the Let's Change (Cambiemos) alliance, Pando where it joined with the regional Democratic Integration Community (CID), and Tarija where it gained the support of incumbent governor Adrián Oliva to form Community of Everyone (Comunidad de Todos).[20][21][22] Santa Cruz was the only department where it did not present a gubernatorial candidate, choosing instead to endorse Creemos leader Luis Fernando Camacho.[23]

Largely as a result of the hugely divided opposition field, CC failed to win any gubernatorial elections and won six mayoral elections. These were in Camiri, Colcapirhua, Ingavi, Puerto Rico, San Pedro de Manuripi, and Santos Mercado. The latter four were all located in Pando, where CC saw its best performance.[24]

The Civic Community coalition is currently composed of the following groups:[25]

Party Ideology Type Registration
Revolutionary Left Front Reformism
Social democracy 		Political party National
First the People Civic group Tarija

Electoral results

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Presidential elections

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Election Presidential nominee Running mate Votes % Votes % Result
First Round Second Round
2019 Carlos Mesa Gustavo Pedraza 2,240,920 36.51% Annulled Red XN
2020 1,775,943 28.83% Lost Red XN

Legislative elections

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Plurinational Legislative Assembly
Election Votes Seats Position Government
No. % Chamber ± Senate ±
2019 2,240,920 36.51
50 / 130
 Increase 50
14 / 38
 Increase 14 2nd Results annulled
2020 1,775,943 28.83
39 / 130
 Decrease 11
11 / 38
 Decrease 3 Steady 2nd Movement for Socialism

Regional elections

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Election Seats
Mayors ± Governors ±
2021
6 / 337
 Increase 6
0 / 9
 Steady 0

See also

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References

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  1. ^ https://urgente.bo/noticia/estas-son-las-cifras-de-militancia-de-los-partidos-pol%C3%ADticos-en-bolivia [bare URL]
  2. ^ "Bolivia election: Five things to know about". BBC News. 17 October 2020.
  3. ^ "Bolivians expect 'upheaval' as general election looms". 18 October 2020.
  4. ^ "Comunidad Ciudadana". Comunidad Ciudadana (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  5. ^ "Will Bolivians give Evo Morales a fourth term?". BBC. 20 October 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  6. ^ Bolivia presidential election: Evo Morales faces a run-off vote on Dec 15, The Santiago Times, 21 October 2018
  7. ^ "Sol.bo, FRI, Todos, ratifican alianza y van con Comunidad Ciudadana a las subnacionales de 2020". 30 September 2019.
  8. ^ "Agrupación Fuerza K´ochala se adhiere a Comunidad Ciudadana". 9 October 2019.
  9. ^ "Bolivia's Evo Morales set to face first run-off". BBC. 21 October 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  10. ^ "Bolivia elections: Concern as results transmission pauses". BBC News. 21 October 2019.
  11. ^ "Bolivia: el ex mandatario Carlos Mesa lanzó su candidatura presidencial para enfrentar a Evo Morales en 2019". infobae (in European Spanish). 7 October 2018. Archived from the original on 7 October 2018. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  12. ^ "Mesa lanza su candidatura y llama a colectivos y partidos". www.paginasiete.bo (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  13. ^ "SOL.bo propone alianza a Mesa y propone agenda programática". www.paginasiete.bo (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  14. ^ "Revilla firma con Mesa y deja que él elija a su acompañante". www.paginasiete.bo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  15. ^ Operador 3 (31 October 2018). "Carlos Mesa y Luis Revilla firman alianza de cara a las elecciones primarias". radioamerica (in European Spanish). Retrieved 12 June 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ "Mesa y Revilla oficializan la alianza política "Comunidad Ciudadana" ante el TSE | ANF-Agencia de Noticias" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  17. ^ "Carlos Mesa y Adrián Oliva confirman alianza para las elecciones de 2019". La Razón | Noticias de Bolivia y el Mundo. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  18. ^ "El FRI dice que siguen las conversaciones con UN y Demócratas". www.paginasiete.bo (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  19. ^ "UN y Demócratas oficializan alianza 'Bolivia Dice No' y se abren a recibir cualquier candidatura". La Razón | Noticias de Bolivia y el Mundo. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  20. ^ "Gonzales dice que quiere poner fin a 14 años de "chacota" en Pand"". www.paginasiete.bo (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  21. ^ Flores, Edwin. "Beni: 14 alianzas y partidos políticos presentaron listas de candidatos – La Palabra del Beni". lapalabradelbeni.com.bo/ (in European Spanish). Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  22. ^ "Se perfila alianza de CC, FRI, Todos, PG, SOL-BO y otras fuerzas municipales en Tarija". El País Tarija (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  23. ^ "Siete frentes respaldan a Camacho y Creemos no apoyará a ningún candidato a la Alcaldía cruceña". Los Tiempos (in Spanish). 29 December 2020. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  24. ^ "ELECCIÓN DE AUTORIDADES POLÍTICAS DEPARTAMENTALES, REGIONALES Y MUNICIPALES 2021". Organo Electoral Plurinacional. Archived from the original on 5 December 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  25. ^ "CC descarta alianzas en La Paz y va con variantes en Beni, Pando y Tarija". www.paginasiete.bo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
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