The New Republican Force (

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: ''Nueva Fuerza Republicana'', NFR) is a center-right

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...

in Bolivia. It is mainly based in the department of

Cochabamba Cochabamba ( ay, Quchapampa; qu, Quchapampa) is a city and municipality in central Bolivia in a valley in the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cochabamba Department and the fourth largest city in Bolivia, with a population of 630 ...

History

The NFR was founded in 1995. After the Assembly for the Sovereignty of the Peoples' (ASP) success in the 1999 municipal elections in Cochabamba, the NFR offered ASP leader

Alejo Véliz Alejo Véliz Lazo (born February 9, 1957) is a Bolivian politician and activist. He is a member of the ASP party. Véliz is a former executive secretary of the Federación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Cochabamba (FSUTCC), and form ...

and other peasant activists top candidate positions and won them over. At the legislative elections in 2002, the party won 26.5% of the popular vote and 27 out of 130 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and two out of 27 seats in the Senate. Its candidate at the

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Manfred Reyes Villa Manfred Armando Antonio Reyes Villa Bacigalupi (born April 19, 1954) is a Bolivian politician, businessman, and former military officer. He was elected mayor of the city of Cochabamba five consecutive times, and became the elected Prefect of ...

, won 20.9% of the popular vote. After the election, the party joined the multiparty coalition of president

Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada Sánchez Bustamante (born 1 July 1930), often referred to as Goni, is a Bolivian businessman and politician who served as the 61st president of Bolivia from 1993 to 1997 and from 2002 to 2003. A member of the Revolu ...

of the

Revolutionary Nationalist Movement The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement ( es, Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario , MNR) is a centre-right conservative political party in Bolivia and was the leading force behind the Bolivian National Revolution from 1952 to 1964. It influenc ...

(MNR). In October 2003, the NFR decided to leave the coalition and Reyes Villa and the other three NFR ministers resigned. This deprived the president of his congressional majority and forced him to resign. In the 2005 general elections the party received 0.7% of the popular vote and failed to win a seat. Its presidential candidate was Gildo Angulo Cabrera. In September 2009, the NFR participated in the formation of a broad oppositional coalition called

Plan Progress for Bolivia – National Convergence Plan Progress for Bolivia – National Convergence ( Spanish: ''Plan Progreso para Bolivia–Convergencia Nacional''; acronym: PPB-CN) was a coalition that was Bolivia's largest national opposition political party following the 2009 general elect ...

(PPB-CN). The coalition's candidate in the 2009 presidential election was NFR's leader Reyes Villa.Nuevo frente amplio se denomina Convergencia Nacional PPB-CN
," ''fmBolivia'', 5 September 2009.

References

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