The Pachakuti Indigenous Movement (

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: ''Movimiento Indígena Pachakuti'') was an

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founded in November 2000. At the legislative elections in 2002, the party won 2.2% of the popular vote and 6 out of 130 seats in the

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and none out of 27 seats in the

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. Its candidate at the presidential elections,

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 ...

, won 6.1% of the popular vote. At the legislative elections in 2005, the party won 2.2% of the popular vote and no seats. Its candidate at the presidential elections, Felipe Quispe Huanca, won 2.2% of the popular vote.

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