CarwilBJ’s Twitter Archive—№ 27,994

The career of Damián Condori, on the verge of being Chuquisaca's governor, is an exemplar of the independent candidates winning today, and the perfect illustration of the vicious side of MAS-IPSP partisanship.
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Condori embodied the close connection between the MAS-IPSP and its rural base. So much so that he was featured in this book, "We aren't of the MAS, the MAS is ours," based on a 2013 interview.
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…in reply to @CarwilBJ
Condori rose through the agrarian union, taking on various roles or cargos and getting his political education through the national Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia (CSUTCB).
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…in reply to @CarwilBJ
This is the path I lay out in a 2018 article, by looking at another rural leader in Chuquisaca. woborders.blog/2018/07/25/binding-leaders/
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…in reply to @CarwilBJ
In the interview, Condori refers to the MAS-IPSP by its internal name "the Political Instrument." It's not that we are "of the MAS," he insisted, "the MAS belong to us and president Evo Morales is our representative. He's not the owner."
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…in reply to @CarwilBJ
"What is needed," he told researchers funded by the Vice Presidency, "is to say that we are the owners of the Political instrument, and not the [party] leaders … they are our representatives.
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…in reply to @CarwilBJ
At the time of the 2013 interview, Condori said "I am now [serving] as the right hand of the governor of Chuquisaca, Esetban Urquizu" in a community development post while still a part of the Chuquisaca rural union federation.
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…in reply to @CarwilBJ
Seemingly impressed with his performance, Chuquisaca federation FUTPOCH proposed Condori as candidate for governor. Evo Morales and the national leadership chose to renominate sitting governor Esteban Urquizu.
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…in reply to @CarwilBJ
FUTPOCH leaders refused to support Urquizu and instead back the Condori's candidacy on the party line of We Are All Chuquisaca in the 2015 election. That decision would cost him everything. The national union CSUTCB expelled Condori from its ranks in retaliation.
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…in reply to @CarwilBJ
Then in the election, Condori won 42.49% of the vote and Urquizu won 48.91%. If you know Bolivian election rules, that calls for a runoff, but…
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…in reply to @CarwilBJ
In the days before the election, third-party candidate Adrián Valeriano had dropped out and endorsed the MAS-IPSP. Despite this he received 3.81% of the vote.
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…in reply to @CarwilBJ
The MAS-nominated Departmental Electoral Tribunal (TED) passed a resolution disqualifying Valeriano's votes and ruling that the Urquizu had won a majority, thereby avoiding a runoff.
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…in reply to @CarwilBJ
Electoral observers raised eyebrows. Seven months later the Supreme Electoral Tribunal suspended the TED members who prevented a runoff.
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…in reply to @CarwilBJ
Condori joined a coalition of MAS dissidents—Román Loayza, Rebeca Delgado, Luis Alfaro, and Félix Santos —to found a new national party, Bolivia Somos Todos. A 2017 meeting of the party was disrupted by local MAS officials.
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…in reply to @CarwilBJ
Condori himself was investigated as part of the wide-ranging Indigenous Fund scandal. While never indicted, he was put under pre-trial investigative detention from December 2015 to 2017.
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…in reply to @CarwilBJ
In 2019, FUTPOCH invited Condori to rejoin the MAS-IPSP. He declined. correodelsur.com/local/20190614_futpoch-invita-a-condori-a-volver-a-filas-del-mas.html
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…in reply to @CarwilBJ
In 2021, FUTPOCH campaigned against Condori as a traitor and declared he would be a "threat to campesinos" if elected as governor. facebook.com/watch/?v=528473454825000
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…in reply to @CarwilBJ
In the March 7, 2021, election, Condori and Chuquisaca Somos Todos won a plurality. Yesterday they got their runoff, dubiously denied six years before.
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…in reply to @CarwilBJ
Since his first attempted run, Condori has been expelled from the union that formed him, denied a runoff he deserved, jailed, and maneuvered against. Today, Damián Condori is on the cusp of being elected governor of Chuquisaca.
Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 2 Favorites 2021 Apr 12 Mood -6 🙁

…in reply to @CarwilBJ
However, Condori 's opponent, Juan Carlos León of the MAS-IPSP, a former rural mayor and former head of the Agrarian Reform Institute, is sweeping over 60% of the rural (non-Sucre) vote.
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