Bolivia: Coalition of Governing Parties Announce Joint Presidential Candidate for 1993 Elections Erika Harding

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11-3-1992 Bolivia: Coalition Of Governing Parties Announce Joint Presidential Candidate For 1993 Elections Erika Harding

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On Oct. 22, leaders of the parties which form the Patriotic Accord (Acuerdo Patriotico, AP) governing coalition the Revolutionary Left Movement (Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria, MIR) and the Nationalist Democratic Action (Accion Democratica Nacionalista, ADN) announced they will jointly support the candidacy of former president Ret. Gen. Hugo Banzer in the 1993 presidential elections. Naming of the AP presidential candidate is seen as the culmination of a "gentlemen's agreement" made in the wake of the 1989 presidential elections. In 1989, none of the candidates received an absolute majority. The legislature was thus called upon to choose the president from among the three candidates who had received the most votes: Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, of the opposition Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario, MNR), Banzer of the ADN and Jaime Paz Zamora of the MIR, in that order. To prevent Sanchez de Lozada's selection, the ADN agreed to support Paz Zamora's candidacy in exchange for a commitment by the MIR to support Banzer in 1993. One recent opinion poll put Sanchez de Lozada in first place among the 1993 candidates, industrialist Max Fernandez of the Solidarity Civic Union (Unidad Civica Solidaridad, UCS) in second, followed by Banzer in third. (Source: Spanish news service EFE, 10/22/92)

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