The Fearless Movement (in

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: ''Movimiento Sin Miedo''; MSM) is a defunct progressive

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. MSM was founded on March 1, 1999 and dissolved following the

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. The leader of the party,

Juan del Granado Juan Fernando del Granado Cosío (born 26 March 1953), often referred to as Juan Sin Miedo'','' is a Bolivian human rights lawyer and politician who served as mayor of La Paz from 2000 to 2004 and 2005 to 2010. A member of the Fearless Moveme ...

, was the mayor of

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from 2000 to 2010. The party won mayoral elections in 2010 in both La Paz and Oruro. MSM entered into a political alliance with the Movement for Socialism (MAS-IPSP) on September 3, 2005 in advance of the 2005 presidential election. The parties also consolidated their efforts during the 2006 election for the

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, in support of President

Evo Morales Juan Evo Morales Ayma (; born 26 October 1959) is a Bolivian politician, trade union organizer, and former cocalero activist who served as the 65th president of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019. Widely regarded as the country's first president to co ...

during the 2008 Bolivian recall election, and finally in a joint legislative slate in the 2009 general election.

Elected officials

Plurinational Legislative Assembly

Four members of MSM were elected to serve in the lower house of Bolivia's Congress when the party was in alliance with the MAS-IPSP: Javier Zavaleta, Marcela Revollo, Fabián Yaksic, and Samuel Pamuri. The last three of those were elected to uninominal seat

As part of a break between the MSM and its ally the Movement for Socialism (MAS-IPSP), the party's four deputies, elected on the MAS slate left the MAS ranks and pledged in late March 2010, "to act in accord with our political identity, with our conscience, and with the people who elected us with their vote."Ruptura MAS-MSM llega a la Asamblea Legislativa
," ''La Prensa'', 27 March 2010. However, Samuel Pamuri quickly pledged his allegiance to the MAS-IPSP by April 2010. Javier Zavaleta distanced himself from the Fearless Movement as well, culminating in his formal detachment in February 2011. MAS-IPSP deputies have repeatedly threatened to remove the remaining deputies from their seats for non-adherence to their elected slate. In January 2012, the Fearless Movement proposed that the five uninominal seats representing the city of La Paz (including Zavaleta, Revollo, Yaksic, and Pamuri, as well as Guillermo Torres of the MAS-IPSP) be subjected to a recall referendum, thereby confirming or rejecting their current party allegiances.

Municipal officials

In the departmental and municipal elections on 4 April 2010, the MSM participated in 176 contests, winning the mayor's office in 21 municipalities. Luis Revilla won the municipality of

, which marked the third time that the Fearless Movement has won a mayoral race. Also, Rossío Pimentel Flores, from the MSM, carried the municipality of Oruro, something unexpected, since the Movement for Socialism has enjoyed strong support from that city. The MSM has consolidated itself since then strongly in opposition to the ruling party.

Presidential candidacy, 2014

After President

suggested he would run for re-election in 2014,

, the leader of the Fearless Movement, led the party to challenge its former ally, the Movement for Socialism, to submit Morales' proposal to a constitutional referendum. Simultaneously, del Granado stated that the MSM would present a candidate for president. On November 11, 2013, the MSM nominated del Granado as its candidate for president in the 2014 general elections. The results gave del Grando less than 3% of the vote, causing the party to lose its legal status. As a result, many of its members founded the Sovereignty and Liberty Party (''Soberanía y Libertad'', SOL.BO) led by

Luis Revilla Luis "Lucho" Revilla (born 1972 in La Paz, Bolivia) is a Bolivian politician who has been the mayor of La Paz since 31 May 2010, succeeding Juan del Granado. Before becoming mayor, he worked over ten years for the city. He is married to Mari ...

References

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