Movement Without Fear
Movimiento Sin Miedo |
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Leader | Juan Del Granado |
Founded | 1 March 1999 |
Headquarters | La Paz, Bolivia |
Ideology | Progressivism |
Political position | Centre-left |
International affiliation | Progressive Alliance |
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The Movement Without Fear (in Spanish: Movimiento Sin Miedo, MSM) is a progressive political party in Bolivia. MSM was founded on March 1, 1999.
The leader of the party, Juan del Granado, was the mayor of La Paz from 2000 to 2010. The party won mayoral elections in 2010 in both La Paz and Oruro.
MSM entered into a political alliance with the Movement for Socialism (MAS-IPSP) on September 3, 2005 in advance of the 2005 presidential election. The parties also consolidated their efforts during the 2006 election for the Constituent Assembly, in support of President Evo Morales during the 2008 recall referendum, and finally in a joint legislative slate in the 2009 general election.
Four members of MSM were elected to serve in the lower house of Bolivia's Congress when the party was in alliance with the MAS-IPSP: Javier Zavaleta, Marcela Revollo, Fabián Yaksic, and Samuel Pamuri. The last three of those were elected to uninominal seats.[1] As part of a break between the MSM and its ally the Movement for Socialism (MAS-IPSP), the party's four deputies, elected on the MAS slate left the MAS ranks and pledged in late March 2010, "to act in accord with our political identity, with our conscience, and with the people who elected us with their vote." However, Samuel Pamuri quickly pledged his allegiance to the MAS-IPSP by April 2010. Javier Zavaleta distanced himself from the Movement without Fear as well, culminating in his formal detachment in February 2011.