The Nationalist Union of the People (Spanish: Unión Nacionalista del Pueblo, UNP) was a right-wing, pro-military electoral political alliance in Bolivia.
The UNP was formed in January 1978 by:
- Bolivian Socialist Falange, FSB (right-wing pro-military faction led by Gastón Moreira Ostria)
- Nationalist Revolutionary Movement, MNR (pro-military faction led by Rubén Julio Castro)
- Authentic Revolutionary Party, PRA (pro-military faction led by Jorge Ríos Gamarra)
- Committee of National Unity, CUN
- Popular Christian Movement, MPC
- Liberal Party, PL
- Barrientista National Union, UNB
- Republican Socialist Unity Party, PURS
- Social Christian Party, PSC.[1]
It presented as its presidential candidate Juan Pereda Asbún (independent) and Alfredo Franco Guachalla (MNR), as vice-presidential candidate.[2]
Leaders of the UNP's member parties served in cabinet after Pereda seized power in July 1978. When Pereda dismissed his ministers in favor of a majority military cabinet, the UNP's leaders dissolved the alliance.[3]
Notes
edit- ^ Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 2. [Oxford] [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. P.139.
- ^ Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 2. [Oxford] [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. P.150.
- ^ "Pereda no consideró todavía el anuncio de disolución de la UNP" [Pereda Yet to Consider Announcement of the Dissolution of the UNP]. Presencia (in Spanish). La Paz. 21 November 1978. p. 11.
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