{{For|the Kamasi Washington album|Fearless Movement (album)}} {{Short description|Political party in Bolivia}} {{Infobox political party | name = Fearless Movement | native_name = Movimiento Sin Miedo | colorcode = {{party color|Fearless Movement}} | logo = MSM logo | leader = Juan Del Granado | foundation = 1 March 1999 | dissolution = | split = Revolutionary Left Movement | successor = Sovereignty and Liberty Party | ideology = Democratic socialism<br>Progressivism | position = Centre-left<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nacla.org/blog/2014/10/12/bolivia-elections-time-evo|title=Bolivia: Elections in the Time of Evo|last=Achtenberg|first=Emily|date=29 September 2014|website=NACLA|publisher=The North American Congress on Latin America}}</ref> | headquarters = La Paz, Bolivia | international = | national = Unity Bloc | seats1_title = Deputies | seats1 = {{Infobox political party/seats|1|130|{{party color|Fearless Movement}}}} | seats2_title = Senate | seats2 = {{Infobox political party/seats|0|36|{{party color|Fearless Movement}}}} | website = | country = Bolivia| }} The '''Fearless Movement''' (in Spanish: ''Movimiento Sin Miedo''; '''MSM''') is a progressive political party in Bolivia. MSM was founded on March 1, 1999 and dissolved following the 2014 Bolivian general election. It was relaunched in July 2025.
The leader of the party, Juan del Granado, was the mayor of La Paz 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 Constituent Assembly,<ref>{{Cite news| title = Los "sin miedo" efectuaron una extensa autoevaluación: Consejo del MSM descarta una ruptura con el MAS | work = La Prensa | accessdate = 2010-09-25 | date = 2007-08-12 | url = http://www.cedib.org/anuario/contenido/agosto/12/ltext/P2.820070812.html }}</ref> in support of President Evo Morales during the 2008 Bolivian recall election, and finally in a joint legislative slate in the 2009 general election.
==Elected officials== ===Plurinational Legislative Assembly=== thumb|left|MSM poster during the 2008 referendum campaign, illustrating the party's embrace of the "process of change" and critical stance towards the successes and limitations of MAS rule. Banner text: "Yes to the process of change / Fearless Movement with Evo" 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 seats.[https://web.archive.org/web/20100126175203/http://www.laprensa.com.bo/noticias/19-01-10/noticias.php?nota=19_01_10_poli1.php] 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."<ref name="laprensa.com.bo">"[http://www.laprensa.com.bo/noticias/27-03-10/noticias.php?nota=27_03_10_alfi1.php Ruptura MAS-MSM llega a la Asamblea Legislativa] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100401133744/http://www.laprensa.com.bo/noticias/27-03-10/noticias.php?nota=27_03_10_alfi1.php |date=2010-04-01 }}," ''La Prensa'', 27 March 2010.</ref> However, Samuel Pamuri quickly pledged his allegiance to the MAS-IPSP by April 2010.<ref name="eldiario.net">{{Cite news | title = Diputado Samuel Pamuri niega militancia en MSM | work = El Diario | accessdate = 2012-01-19 | date = 2012-01-19 | url = http://www.eldiario.net/noticias/2010/2010_04/nt100420/2_11plt.php | archive-date = 2015-09-24 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150924002104/http://www.eldiario.net/noticias/2010/2010_04/nt100420/2_11plt.php | url-status = dead }}</ref> Javier Zavaleta distanced himself from the Fearless Movement as well, culminating in his formal detachment in February 2011.<ref>{{Cite news | title = Diputado Javier Zavaleta no representa más al MSM | work = Los Tiempos | accessdate = 2012-01-19 | date = 2012-01-19 | url = http://www.lostiempos.com/diario/actualidad/politica/20110211/diputado-javier-zavaleta-no-representa-mas-al-msm_112620_222333.html | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110213013914/http://www.lostiempos.com/diario/actualidad/politica/20110211/diputado-javier-zavaleta-no-representa-mas-al-msm_112620_222333.html | archivedate = 2011-02-13 }}</ref>
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.<ref name="eldiario.net"/>
===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.<ref>"[http://www.boliviaprensa.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=196:elecciones-en-bolivia&catid=13:featured-news Elecciones en Bolivia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708082017/http://www.boliviaprensa.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=196:elecciones-en-bolivia&catid=13:featured-news |date=2011-07-08 }}," ''Bolivia Prensa'', 3 April 2010.</ref><ref name=231Alc>{{Cite news | title = MAS ganó en 231 alcaldías | work = Los Tiempos | accessdate = 2010-05-21 | date = 2010-05-16 | url = http://www.lostiempos.com/diario/actualidad/politica/20100516/mas-gano-en-231-alcaldias_70869_130830.html | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110929030353/http://www.lostiempos.com/diario/actualidad/politica/20100516/mas-gano-en-231-alcaldias_70869_130830.html | archivedate = 2011-09-29 }}</ref> Luis Revilla won the municipality of La Paz, 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.<ref name="laprensa.com.bo"/>
===Presidential candidacy, 2014=== After President Evo Morales suggested he would run for re-election in 2014, Juan del Granado, 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.<ref>{{Cite news |pages = A1, A2 |title = Del Granado reta a Evo a ir a referéndum |work = Los Tiempos |location = Cochabamba |accessdate = 2010-09-25 |date = 2010-09-23 |url = http://www.lostiempos.com/diario/actualidad/politica/20100923/del-granado-reta-a-evo-a-ir-a-referendum_90933_174956.html |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120229171553/http://www.lostiempos.com/diario/actualidad/politica/20100923/del-granado-reta-a-evo-a-ir-a-referendum_90933_174956.html |archivedate = 2012-02-29 }}</ref> On November 11, 2013, the MSM nominated del Granado as its candidate for president in the 2014 general elections.<ref>{{Cite news | title = A 11 meses de comicios exsocio de Evo es el primer candidato a la presidencia | work = Opinión | location = Cochabamba, Bolivia | accessdate = 2013-11-12 | date = 2013-11-12 | url = http://www.opinion.com.bo/opinion/articulos/2013/1112/noticias.php?id=111617 }}</ref> 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.
===2025 general election=== In July 2025, del Granado relaunched the party with the intention of contesting the 2025 Bolivian general election.
== Election results ==
=== Presidential elections === {| class=wikitable style=text-align:center ! rowspan="2" |Election ! rowspan="2" |Presidential nominee !Votes !% !Votes !% ! rowspan="2" |Result |- ! colspan="2" |First round ! colspan="2" |Second round |- ! 2005 | rowspan=2 |Evo Morales (MAS) | 1,544,374 | 53.74% | colspan=2 | | '''Elected''' {{Y}} |- ! 2009 | 2,943,209 | 64.22% | colspan=2 | | '''Elected''' {{Y}} |- ! 2014 | Juan del Granado | 140,285 | 2.71% | colspan=2 | | '''Lost''' {{Nay}} |- ! 2019 | colspan=6 |''Did not contest'' |- ! 2020 | colspan=6 |''Did not contest'' |- ! 2025 | Samuel Doria Medina (UN) | 1,054,568 | 19.69% | colspan=2 | | '''Lost''' {{Y}} |}
=== Chamber of Deputies and Senate elections === {| class=wikitable style=text-align:center |- !Election !Party leader !Votes !% !Chamber seats ! +/- !Position !Senate seats ! +/- !Position !Status |- ! 2005 | Evo Morales | colspan=2 |{{small|As part of MAS}} | {{Composition bar|2|130|hex={{party color|Fearless Movement}}}} | {{increase}} 2 | {{increase}} 1st | {{Composition bar|0|36|hex={{party color|Fearless Movement}}}} | {{steady}} 0 | {{increase}} 1st | {{yes2|Government}} |- ! 2009 | Evo Morales | colspan=2 |{{small|As part of MAS}} | {{Composition bar|4|130|hex={{party color|Fearless Movement}}}} | {{increase}} 2 | {{increase}} 1st | {{Composition bar|0|36|hex={{party color|Fearless Movement}}}} | {{steady}} 0 | {{increase}} 1st | {{yes2|Government}} |- ! 2014 | Juan del Granado | 135,997 | 2.71% | {{Composition bar|0|130|hex={{party color|Fearless Movement}}}} | New | {{increase}} 4th | {{Composition bar|0|36|hex={{party color|Fearless Movement}}}} | New | {{increase}} 4th | {{no|Extra-parliamentary}} |- ! 2019 | colspan=3 |''Did not contest'' | {{Composition bar|0|130|hex={{party color|Fearless Movement}}}} | {{steady}} 0 | {{N/A}} | {{Composition bar|0|36|hex={{party color|Fearless Movement}}}} | {{steady}} 0 | {{N/A}} | {{partial|Annulled}} |- ! 2020 | colspan=3 |''Did not contest'' | {{Composition bar|0|130|hex={{party color|Fearless Movement}}}} | {{steady}} 0 | {{N/A}} | {{Composition bar|0|36|hex={{party color|Fearless Movement}}}} | {{steady}} 0 | {{N/A}} | {{no|Extra-parliamentary}} |- ! 2025 | Juan del Granado | colspan=2 |{{small|As part of Unity}} | {{Composition bar|1|130|hex={{party color|Fearless Movement}}}} | {{increase}} 1 | {{increase}} 3rd | {{Composition bar|0|36|hex={{party color|Fearless Movement}}}} | {{steady}} 0 | {{increase}} 3rd | {{no2|Opposition}} |}
==See also== *List of political parties in Bolivia
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Bolivian political parties}} {{Authority control}} Category:1999 establishments in Bolivia Category:2014 disestablishments in Bolivia Category:2025 establishments in Bolivia Category:Democratic socialist parties in South America Category:Political parties disestablished in 2014 Category:Political parties established in 1999 Category:Political parties established in 2025 Category:Political parties in Bolivia Category:Progressive Alliance Category:Progressive parties in Bolivia Category:Socialist parties in Bolivia