3rd Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia

3rd Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia
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The defunct Legislative Palace and the new Legislative Assembly headquarters
Overview
Legislative body	Plurinational Legislative Assembly
Meeting place	New ALP Building, Plaza Murillo, La Paz
Term	3 November 2020 (2020-11-03) –
Election	2020 general election
Government	Movement for Socialism
Opposition	Civic Community Creemos
Website	vicepresidencia.gob.bo web.senado.gob.bo diputados.gob.bo
Chamber of Senators
Members	36
President of the Assembly[a]	David Choquehuanca (MAS-IPSP)
President of the Senate	Andrónico Rodríguez (MAS-IPSP)
First Vice President	Gladys Alarcón (MAS-IPSP)
Second Vice President	Vania Rocha (CC)
Party control	Movement for Socialism
Chamber of Deputies
Members	130
President of the Chamber of Deputies	Jerges Mercado Suárez (MAS-IPSP)
First Vice President	Hernán Durán (MAS-IPSP)
Second Vice President	Ingvar Ellefsen (CC)
Party control	Movement for Socialism

The 3rd Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia (Spanish: 3° Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional de Bolivia; ALP) is the current meeting of the legislative branch of the Bolivian government, composed of the Chamber of Senators and the Chamber of Deputies. It convened in La Paz on 3 November 2020, during the final week of Jeanine Áñez's presidency, and will end in 2025. It will meet during all five years of Luis Arce's presidency.

The 2020 general elections decided control of both chambers. In both the Chamber of Deputies and Senate, the Movement for Socialism retained its majority—albeit reduced from the two-thirds supermajority from the 2nd Plurinational Legislative Assembly [fr]. This assembly marks the first time women make up the majority of the legislature as a whole at 51.9 percent of parliamentarians. In the Senate, women make up the absolute majority at 55.5 percent of senators, while in the Chamber of Deputies, they reach near gender parity at 46.9 percent of deputies.^[1]

This legislature has been characterized by frequent inter-party conflicts and quarrels. The ruling Movement for Socialism failed to attain a supermajority in either chamber—as it had done in the previous assemblies—granting the opposition a higher degree of discretion over decisions requiring the support of two-thirds of legislators. However, amendments to the regulations of both chambers approved by the preceding legislature shortly before this assembly's formal installation abrogated the two-thirds requirement for numerous parliamentary procedures, leading political analysts to note the effective neutralization of the opposition's ability to operate. Subsequent disputes and accusations by the opposition of abuse of parliamentary procedure purportedly perpetrated by the ruling party have resulted in disorderly behavior and even physical violence during legislative sessions regarding the election of members to commissions and the passage of controversial bills.

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