National Unity Front

The National Unity Front (Spanish: Frente de Unidad Nacional) is a political party in Bolivia. At the legislative elections in 2005, the party won 7.8% of the popular vote and 8 out of 130 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 1 out of 27 seats in the Senate. Its candidate at the presidential elections, Samuel Jorge Doria Medina Auza, won 7.8% of the popular vote. In the 2009 elections, Samuel Doria Medina ran again and won 5.65% of the vote. The party won 3 seats in the Chamber of Deputies but none in the Senate. It seeks to position itself as a moderate third force in Bolivian politics.

In the 2010 regional elections, UN formed alliances with Popular Consensus in Cochabamba and Chuquisaca departments, becoming the largest opposition grouping, while becoming the third largest party in La Paz and Oruro departments. At municipal level, it obtained representation in La Paz, El Alto, Cochabamba (where it narrowly failed to win the mayorship but is the equal largest party in the city council) and Oruro.

Political parties in Bolivia
Congressional parties
  • Movement for Socialism
  • National Unity Front
  • Plan Progress for Bolivia – National Convergence
  • Social Alliance
  • Without Fear Movement
Other national parties
  • Agrarian Patriotic Front of Bolivia
  • Bolivian Socialist Falange
  • Christian Democratic Party
  • Civic Solidarity Union
  • Communist Party of Bolivia
  • Free Bolivia Movement
  • Indigenous Pachakuti Movement
  • Nationalist Democratic Action
  • New Republican Force
  • Popular Consensus
  • Progress Plan
  • Revolutionary Left Front
  • Revolutionary Left Movement - New Majority
  • Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
  • Social and Democratic Power
  • Socialist Party
  • Workers' Social Union of Bolivia
Regional parties
  • Beni
    • Amazon Convergence
    • Beni First
    • Autonomous Nationalities for Change and Empowerment
  • Chuquisaca
    • Renewing Freedom and Democracy
    • Falange April 19
  • La Paz
    • Movement for Sovereignty
  • Potosí
    • Potosí Regional Civic Front
    • Uqarikuna Citizen Association
  • Santa Cruz
    • Truth and Social Democracy
  • Tarija
    • Path towards Change
    • National Autonomous Power
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  • Politics of Bolivia


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