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The '''Revolutionary Party of the Nationalist Left''' ({{Lang-es|Partido Revolucionario de la Izquierda Nacionalista}}, PRIN) was a [[left-wing politics|left-wing]] [[political party]] in [[Bolivia]]. It was founded in 1963 by the labor leader [[Juan Lechín Oquendo]] and by [[Mario Torres Calleja]] and [[Edwin Moller]] in lesser roles. The PRIN seceded from the [[Revolutionary Nationalist Movement]] (MNR) in protest against [[Víctor Paz Estenssoro]]'s decision to seek a third elected term as president in 1964, rather than permit then Vice-President [[Juan Lechín Oquendo|Juan Lechín]] to have the MNR's presidential nomination.<ref name="Greenwood-p143">Political parties of the Americas: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies. Greenwood Press, 1982. P. 143.</ref> |
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The PRIN combined the left wing of the MNR and former members of the [[Revolutionary Workers' Party (Bolivia)|Revolutionary Workers' Party]] (POR). The PRIN's ideological position espouses left-wing [[nationalism]], rather than [[socialism]] in more traditional terms. It is critical of bourgeois influence in the main body of the MNR.<ref name="Greenwood-p143" /> |
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Electorally, the PRIN abstained in the 1964 and 1966 presidential votes. After the [[military coup]] of 1964, the PRIN was forced underground. It was also weakened because [[Juan Lechín Oquendo|Juan Lechín]] was deported to Paraguay by the military [[military dictatorship|junta]], he spent many years in exile between 1965 and 1978.<ref name="Longman-p68">Political parties of the world. Longman, 1988. P. 68.</ref> The PRIN was once again suppressed in the 1970s by the military under the presidency of [[Hugo Banzer]]. |
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After 1971, its position as the main party to the left of the MNR was supplanted by a new party formed by [[Hernán Siles Zuazo|Hernán Siles]], the [[Nationalist Revolutionary Movement of the Left]] (MNRI). |
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In 1978 the Revolutionary Party of the Nationalist Left took part in an electoral coalition [[Leftist Revolutionary Front]] backing [[Casiano Amurrio Rocha]] ([[Communist Party of Bolivia (Marxist–Leninist)|Marxist Leninist Communist Party]]) and [[Domitila Chúngara]] (independent) as its vice-president.<ref name="Nohlen-p150">Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 2. [Oxford] [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. P.150.</ref> |
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For the 1979 elections, the PRIN was the component of the [[Democratic and Popular Union]], with the MNRI's [[Hernán Siles Zuazo]] as the coalition's presidential candidate. |
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Following the end of military rule in 1979, a member of the PRIN, [[Lidia Gueiler Tejada]], was appointed [[President of Bolivia#Provisional Presidents|interim president]]. Gueiler is the only woman ever to serve as president in Bolivia. |
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The PRIN ran [[Juan Lechín Oquendo]] as its candidate on 29 June 1980, it garnered only a 01.20% vote.<ref name="Nohlen-p151">Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 2. [Oxford] [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. P.151.</ref>Through almost two decades of existence, the PRIN has not been able to reach far beyond a role as the personal political vehicle of [[Juan Lechín Oquendo]], whose status as Bolivia's most charismatic labor leader was unchallenged nearly forty years after he first entered politics.<ref name="Longman-p68" /> |
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A split in 1979–1980 established the Revolutionary Party of the National Labour Left (Partido Revolucionario de la Izquierda Nacional Laboral, PRIN-L); a minor socialist party with a collective leadership including [[Edwin Moller]] and the [[Revolutionary Party of the National Left – Gueiler]] (''Partido Revolucionario de la Izquierda Nacional Gueiler'', PRIN-G), a defunct party led by [[Lidia Gueiler Tejada]].<ref>Political parties of the world. Longman, 1980. P. 33.</ref> |
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In 1985 the Revolutionary Party of the Nationalist Left took part in an electoral coalition [[United People's Front (Bolivia)|United People's Front]] backing [[Antonio Aranibar Quiroga]] ([[Free Bolivia Movement]]) and [[Oscar Salas Moya]] ([[Communist Party of Bolivia]]) as its vice-president.<ref name="Nohlen-p151" /> |
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