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The Revolutionary Party of the Nationalist Left (, PRIN) was a
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in
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. It was founded in 1963 by the labor leader
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and by Mario Torres Calleja and Edwin Moller in lesser roles. The PRIN seceded from the
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(MNR) in protest against
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's decision to seek a third elected term as president in 1964, rather than permit then Vice-President
Juan Lechín Juan Lechín Oquendo (18 May 1914 – 27 August 2001) was a labor-union leader and head of the Federation of Bolivian Mine Workers (FSTMB) from 1944 to 1987 and the Bolivian Workers' Union (COB) from 1952 to 1987. He also served as the 29th vi ...
to have the MNR's presidential nomination.Political parties of the Americas: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies. Greenwood Press, 1982. P. 143. The PRIN combined the left wing of the MNR and former members of the Revolutionary Workers' Party (POR). The PRIN's ideological position espouses left-wing
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, rather than
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in more traditional terms. It is critical of bourgeois influence in the main body of the MNR. Electorally, the PRIN abstained in the 1964 and 1966 presidential votes. After the
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of 1964, the PRIN was forced underground. It was also weakened because
Juan Lechín Juan Lechín Oquendo (18 May 1914 – 27 August 2001) was a labor-union leader and head of the Federation of Bolivian Mine Workers (FSTMB) from 1944 to 1987 and the Bolivian Workers' Union (COB) from 1952 to 1987. He also served as the 29th vi ...
was deported to Paraguay by the military
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, he spent many years in exile between 1965 and 1978.Political parties of the world. Longman, 1988. P. 68. The PRIN was once again suppressed in the 1970s by the military under the presidency of
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. After 1971, its position as the main party to the left of the MNR was supplanted by a new party formed by Hernán Siles, the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement of the Left (MNRI). In 1978 the Revolutionary Party of the Nationalist Left took part in an electoral coalition Leftist Revolutionary Front backing
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( Marxist Leninist Communist Party) and
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(independent) as its vice-president.Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 2. xford .a. Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. P.150. For the 1979 elections, the PRIN was the component of the
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, with the MNRI's
Hernán Siles Zuazo Hernán Siles Zuazo (21 March 1914 – 6 August 1996) was a Bolivian politician who served as the 46th president of Bolivia twice nonconsecutively from 1956 to 1960 and from 1982 to 1985. He also briefly served as interim president in April 195 ...
as the coalition's presidential candidate. Following the end of military rule in 1979, a member of the PRIN,
Lidia Gueiler Tejada Lidia Gueiler Tejada (28 August 1921 – 9 May 2011) was a Bolivian politician who served as the 56th president of Bolivia on an interim basis from 1979 to 1980. She was Bolivia's first female Head of State, and the second female republican Hea ...
, was appointed
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. Gueiler was the first woman to serve as president in Bolivia. The PRIN ran
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as its candidate on 29 June 1980, it garnered only a 01.20% vote.Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 2. xford .a. Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. P.151. Through almost two decades of existence, the PRIN has not been able to reach far beyond a role as the personal political vehicle of
Juan Lechín Oquendo ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...
, whose status as Bolivia's most charismatic labor leader was unchallenged nearly forty years after he first entered politics. A split in 1979–1980 established the Revolutionary Party of the National Labour Left (Partido Revolucionario de la Izquierda Nacional Laboral, PRIN-L); a minor socialist party with a collective leadership including Edwin Moller and the
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(''Partido Revolucionario de la Izquierda Nacional Gueiler'', PRIN-G), a defunct party led by
Lidia Gueiler Tejada Lidia Gueiler Tejada (28 August 1921 – 9 May 2011) was a Bolivian politician who served as the 56th president of Bolivia on an interim basis from 1979 to 1980. She was Bolivia's first female Head of State, and the second female republican Hea ...
.Political parties of the world. Longman, 1980. P. 33. In 1985 the Revolutionary Party of the Nationalist Left took part in an electoral coalition United People's Front backing
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) and
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) as its vice-president.


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