The Movement for Sovereignty (

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: ''Movimiento por la Soberanía'', MPS) is a

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founded by

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s of the Movement for Socialism (MAS-IPSP). Its leader, and fourth-place candidate for Governor of La Paz department in the 2010 regional election is

Lino Villca Lino Villca Delgado is a Bolivian politician, a leader of the coca growers movement in the Yungas, a co-founder of the Movement for Socialism (MAS) who turned party dissident. His movement career began with a leadership role in the coca growers ass ...

. Other MAS-IPSP activists involved in founding the MPS include Óscar Chirinos, Miguel Machaca, and Rufo Calle. The party's colors are blue, white, and yellow. In the April 2010 elections, the MPS won the mayor's office in 6 municipalities:

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, Mecapaca, Escoma,

Sorata Sorata (Aymara language, Aymara: ''Surat'a'') is a small town in the La Paz Department, Bolivia, La Paz Department in the Bolivian Andes, northwest of the city of La Paz and east of Lake Titicaca. It is the seat of the Larecaja Province and the ...

, Combaya, and

Pucarani Pucarani (from Aymara language, Aymara Pukarani) is a small town in the La Paz Department, Bolivia, La Paz Department in Bolivia. It is the seat of the Pucarani Municipality, the first Municipalities of Bolivia, municipal section of the Los Andes ...

. In the 2015 regional election, prominent peasant leader (and former head of the CSUTCB)

Felipe Quispe Felipe Quispe Huanca "Mallku" (Quechua language: "condor"), (22 August 1942 – 19 January 2021) was a Bolivian historian and political leader. He headed the Pachakuti Indigenous Movement (MIP) and was general secretary of the United Union Conf ...

ran for governor of La Paz Department with the MPS. Indigenous intellectual and MAS-IPSP dissident Felix Patzi defected from his alliance the MPS to run with SOL.bo and win the race for governor. Overall, the party won fifteen mayor's races, but failed to win re-election in any of the municipalities it won in 2010. It elected mayors to govern Ancoraimes,

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Charaña Charaña is a high elevation town in the altiplano of the La Paz Department in Bolivia. It is the seat of the Charaña Municipality, the fifth municipal section of the Pacajes Province. Charaña is east of the border with Chile. History Ch ...

, Callapa, Mocomoco,

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, Desaguadero, Chulumani,

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, Colquencha,

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, Tito Yupanqui,

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, and

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. With fifteen mayors, it ranked third among Bolivian political parties in the number municipalities it controls, far behind the MAS-IPSP. In December 2015, three MPS mayors—Beatriz Arce of Guaqui, Wilfredo Acarapi of Desaguadero, and Martín Villalobos of Charaña—announced their support for President Evo Morales and received national government funds for projects in their towns.

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