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Beni First ( es, Primero el Beni) is a regional, right-leaning political party in
Beni Department Beni (), sometimes El Beni, is a northeastern department of Bolivia, in the lowlands region of the country. It is the second-largest department in the country (after Santa Cruz), covering 213,564 square kilometers (82,458 sq mi), and it was cre ...
. The party won the 4 April 2010 regional election, the only one it has ever contested, electing both Ernesto Suárez Sattori as governor and a plurality of 11 members of the Departmental Legislative Assembly, in which it became the largest single party. It holds the mayor's office in eight municipalities. In 2009, prominent department politicians including Prefect (the highest executive office, now supplanted by "Governor") Ernesto Suárez and Mayor of
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, Moisés Shriqui, took leadership of the party. Suárez had previously been affiliated with
Social and Democratic Power The Social Democratic Power ( es, Poder Democrático Social, PODEMOS) was a Bolivian political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the mem ...
(PODEMOS). Both men were re-elected in April 2010. Governor Suárez was suspended following his indictment for irregular expenditures related to a power plant in San Borja, Beni, in compliance with a Bolivian legal mandate that indicted officials may not continue to serve. Legislators from the Movement Towards Socialism and
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backed his replacement by Haysen Ribera Leigue, over the objections of Beni First. The party fielded Carmelo Lenz, a lawyer and sub-governor of Vaca Díaz Province, as its candidate in the special gubernatorial election on 20 January 2013, in which he was elected.


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