Civic Community

Civic Community
Comunidad Ciudadana
LeaderCarlos Mesa
Senate spokespersonAndrea Barrientos
Chamber spokespersonCarlos Alarcón
Founded13 November 2018; 5 years ago (2018-11-13)
Membership (2019)88,122[1]
IdeologyLiberalism
Constitutionalism
Third Way
Social democracy
Political positionCentre[2][3] to centre-left[4]
Colours  Dark Orange
  Orange
  Green
Members
List
Senate
11 / 36
Chamber of Deputies
39 / 130
Governorships
0 / 9
Mayors
6 / 337
Website
https://comunidadciudadanabo.com/

Civic Community[5][6] (Spanish: Comunidad Ciudadana, CC) is a liberal Bolivian political coalition led by former president Carlos Mesa, founded in 2018 to contest the 2019 general election. It was born of the alliance of Revolutionary Left Front (FRI), Sovereignty and Freedom (Sol.Bo), All Organization, and Kochala Force parties.[7][8] The alliance holds Mesa's presidential candidacy, with former minister Gustavo Pedraza as his running mate. The CC elected 50 deputies and 14 senators in the country's Plurinational Legislative Assembly in the election.

The CC campaign focused on condemning the candidacy of incumbent president Evo Morales to a controversial but legal fourth consecutive five-year term. The election took place on October 20, 2019. With a preliminary vote count of 45% for incumbent president Evo Morales and 38% for his leading challenger, former president Carlos Mesa, after 83% of votes were counted, neither of those conditions appeared likely to be met. A second-round runoff vote between those two candidates would therefore be held on 15 December.[9]

After that figure of 83% of the total, however, no further updates to the preliminary results were made after 19:40 hours local time, which caused consternation among opposition politicians and the election monitors deployed by the Organization of American States; candidate Mesa described the suspension as "extremely serious" and spoke of manipulation, while the OAS said an explanation was essential. The electoral authorities explained that updates to the preliminary count had been halted because the official results were beginning to be released; nevertheless, no official results were published overnight.[10]

  1. ^ https://urgente.bo/noticia/estas-son-las-cifras-de-militancia-de-los-partidos-pol%C3%ADticos-en-bolivia [bare URL]
  2. ^ "Bolivia election: Five things to know about". BBC News. 17 October 2020.
  3. ^ "Bolivians expect 'upheaval' as general election looms". 18 October 2020.
  4. ^ "Comunidad Ciudadana". Comunidad Ciudadana (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  5. ^ "Will Bolivians give Evo Morales a fourth term?". BBC. 20 October 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  6. ^ Bolivia presidential election: Evo Morales faces a run-off vote on Dec 15, The Santiago Times, 21 October 2018
  7. ^ "Sol.bo, FRI, Todos, ratifican alianza y van con Comunidad Ciudadana a las subnacionales de 2020". 30 September 2019.
  8. ^ "Agrupación Fuerza K´ochala se adhiere a Comunidad Ciudadana". 9 October 2019.
  9. ^ "Bolivia's Evo Morales set to face first run-off". BBC. 21 October 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  10. ^ "Bolivia elections: Concern as results transmission pauses". BBC News. 21 October 2019.