Popular Consensus ( es, Consenso Popular, CP) was a
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political party
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founded in 2009. CP founder Óscar Ortiz Antelo was President of the Senate of Bolivia from 2008 to 2010. In the
2009 national election, the party formed an electoral alliance with the
National Unity Front, the Consensus Alliance for National Unity, behind the candidacy of
Samuel Doria Medina for president. During the
2010 regional election it was involved with the
All for Cochabamba and
We are all Chuquisaca alliances, and supported the candidacy of
Rubén Costas
Rubén Armando Costas Aguilera (born 6 October 1955) is a Bolivian politician and the prefect and then governor of Santa Cruz Department in Bolivia from 2006 to 2021, and also the leader of the Democrat Social Movement (MDS).
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for governor of Santa Cruz. In Pando, the party narrowly lost to the
Movement towards Socialism in state elections, and thus formed the principal opposition. CP was replaced by the
Social Democrat Movement ("Demócratas") in August 2013.
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Political parties established in 2009
Political parties disestablished in 2013
Defunct political parties in Bolivia
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