Bolivian National Congress, 1993–1997
# Bolivian National Congress, 1993–1997

The 1993–1997 Bolivian National Congress was a meeting of the Bolivian legislature composed of the Chamber of Senators and Chamber of Deputies. It met in La Paz from August 1993 to August 1997 during the presidency of Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada.

The Congress was elected as part of the general elections on 6 June 1993.

## Congressional presidential ballot

As no candidate reached the required popular vote majority, the newly elected Congress elected the president on 6 August.

Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR) was the only candidate voted on and was elected with the support of Solidarity Civic Unity (UCS) and the Free Bolivia Movement (MBL). All other parties abstained.

| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada | Revolutionary Nationalist Movement | 97 | 100.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | 97 | 100.00 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 97 | – |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 157 | 61.78 |
| Source: Morales |||||

## Leadership

### National Congress

* President: Víctor Hugo Cárdenas (MRTKL), from 6 August 1993

### Chamber of Senators

* President: Juan Carlos Durán (MNR), until August 1996
   * Raúl Lema Patiño (MNR), from August 1996

### Chamber of Deputies

* President: Guillermo Bedregal Gutiérrez (MNR), until August 1994
   * Javier Campero Paz (MNR), until August 1995
   * Guillermo Bedregal Gutiérrez (MNR), until August 1996
   * Jorge Felix Prestel Kern (MNR), from August 1996

## Composition

### Chamber of Senators

1993–1997 members of the Chamber of Senators:

| Senator | Department | Party |
| - | - | - |
| Domingo Enrique Ipiña Melgar | Chuquisaca | MNR |
| Gastón Encinas Valverde | Chuquisaca | MIR |
| Julio Garrett Ayllón | Chuquisaca | MNR |
| Andrés Soliz Rada | La Paz | CONDEPA |
| Guido Rafael Capra Jemio | La Paz | MNR |
| Javier Tórrez Goitia | La Paz | MNR |
| Enrique Sánchez de Lozada | Cochabamba | MNR |
| Benedicto Juvenal Castro | Cochabamba | MNR |
| Joaquín Aguirre Lavayén | Cochabamba | ADN |
| Freddy Tejerina Rivera | Oruro | MNR |
| Jorge Rosso Mendieta | Oruro | UCS |
| Reynaldo Peters Arzabe | Oruro | MNR |
| Gonzalo Valda Cárdenas | Potosí | MIR |
| Valentin Abecia | Potosí | MNR |
| Wálter Zuleta Roncal | Potosí | MNR |
| Leopoldo López Cossío | Tarija | MIR |
| Luis Lema Molina | Tarija | MNR |
| Raúl Lema Patiño | Tarija | MNR |
| Jorge Landívar Roca | Santa Cruz | ADN |
| Juan Carlos Durán | Santa Cruz | MNR |
| Osvaldo Monasterio Áñez | Santa Cruz | MNR |
| Guillermo Richter Ascimani | Beni | PCB (ML) |
| Miguel Majluf Morales | Beni | MNR |
| Wálter Guiteras Denis | Beni | ADN |
| Elda Escalante Arzadum | Pando | ADN |
| Juan Carlos Riss Cecin | Pando | MNR |
| Leopoldo Fernández | Pando | ADN |

### Chamber of Deputies

1993–1997 members of the Chamber of Deputies:

| Deputy | Department | Party |
| - | - | - |
| Alvaro Vera Corvera | Chuquisaca | ADN |
| Gastón Moreira Ostria | Chuquisaca | ADN |
| Jacinto Aramayo Barja | Chuquisaca | MNR |
| Jaime Ponce Caballero | Chuquisaca | UCS |
| José Rubén Mogro Zeballos | Chuquisaca | MNR |
| Enrique Toro Tejada | Chuquisaca | ADN |
| Luis Morgan López Baspineiro | Chuquisaca | MIR |
| Maria del Rosario Barriga de Yáñez | Chuquisaca | UCS |
| Miguel Antoraz Chalup | Chuquisaca | MNR |
| Miguel Urioste Fernández de Córdova | Chuquisaca | MBL |
| Omar Montalvo Gallardo | Chuquisaca | MNR |
| Pastor Velászquez Chaure | Chuquisaca | MBL |
| Víctor Enrique Urquidi Hodgkinson | Chuquisaca | MNR |
| Alfredo Romero | La Paz | MNR |
| Benjamín Miguel Harb | La Paz | PDC |
| Daniel Santalla | La Paz | CONDEPA |
| Douglas Ascarrunz Eduardo | La Paz | MNR |
| Edith Gutiérrez de Mantilla | La Paz | CONDEPA |
| Eduardo Paz Rada | La Paz | CONDEPA |
| Emesto Machicao Argiró | La Paz | MNR |
| Fernando Kieffer Guzmán | La Paz | ADN |
| Germán Quiroga Gómez | La Paz | MNR |
| Gonzalo Ruiz Paz | La Paz | CONDEPA |
| Guido Riveros Franck | La Paz | MIR |
| Guillermo Bedregal Gutiérrez | La Paz | MNR |
| Jorge Albarracin | La Paz | CONDEPA |
| Mauricio González Sfeir | La Paz | MNR |
| Jorge Medina Pinedo | La Paz | CONDEPA |
| Juan Antonio Malky Zalaquett | La Paz | UCS |
| Juan del Granado | La Paz | MBL |
| Luis Vasquez Villamor | La Paz | MIR |
| Maria Teresa Paz Prudencio | La Paz | MNR |
| Michael Meier Finkelstein | La Paz | UCS |
| Nicomedes Sejas Terrazas | La Paz | MRTKL |
| Paulino Quispe Tozola | La Paz | MNR |
| Ramiro Barrenechea Zambrana | La Paz | Eje |
| Raúl Froilan Tovar Piérola | La Paz | UCS |
| Remedios Loza | La Paz | CONDEPA |
| Ricardo Paz Ballivián | La Paz | CONDEPA |
| Roberto Vega Hermosa | La Paz | CONDEPA |
| Víctor Choque Loza | La Paz | MNR |
| Alberto Werner Gasser Vargas | Cochabamba | MNR |
| Alfonso Ferrufino | Cochabamba | MBL |
| Armando de la Parra Soria | Cochabamba | PCB (ML) |
| César Fernando Vargas Mercado | Cochabamba | UCS |
| Daniel Julio Uriona Suárez | Cochabamba | UCS |
| Eudoro Galindo | Cochabamba | PDB |
| Guido Diógenes Camacho Rodríguez | Cochabamba | ADN |
| Hector Cartagena Chacón | Cochabamba | UCS |
| José Ramiro Arispe Arispe | Cochabamba | MNR |
| Laureano Rojas Alcocer | Cochabamba | MNR |
| Luis Enrique Soria Jáuregui | Cochabamba | MNR |
| Luis Gonzales Quintanilla | Cochabamba | MIR |
| Luis Orlando Jordán Balderrama | Cochabamba | MNR |
| Maria Lourdes Zabala Canedo de Rodríguez | Cochabamba | MNR |
| Mario Galindo Decker | Cochabamba | UCS |
| Oliverio Iriarte Lafuente | Cochabamba | MNR |
| Tito Hoz de Vila | Cochabamba | ADN |
| Víctor Edgar Cabrera Quezada | Cochabamba | CONDEPA |
| Carlos Marcelo Fernández Irahola | Oruro | ARBOL |
| Carlos Raúl Bohrt Irahola | Oruro | MIR |
| Guillermo Sola Eugenio | Oruro | MNR |
| Juan Javier Gerardo Tamayo Richard | Oruro | ADN |
| Juan Martínez Chávez | Oruro | MNR |
| Lizandro García Arce | Oruro | CONDEPA |
| Maximo Teran García | Oruro | UCS |
| Mirtha Patricia Quevedo Acalinovic | Oruro | MNR |
| Norman Antonio Sahonero Araujo | Oruro | UCS |
| Walter Sauciri Nunez | Oruro | MNR |
| Abad Nina Molló | Potosí | MNR |
| Aida Luz Moreno De Claros | Potosí | MNR |
| Alejandro Lucio Felipez Bustamante | Potosí | UCS |
| Angel Rosendo Moscoso Meléndez | Potosí | CONDEPA |
| Arturo Centellas Miranda | Potosí | MNR |
| Claudio Miranda Muñoz | Potosí | MNR |
| Daniel Arturo Oropeza Echevarría | Potosí | ADN |
| Francisco Checo Condori | Potosí | MBL |
| Hugo Adolfo Baptista Orgaz | Potosí | UCS |
| Jebner Zambrana Roman | Potosí | MNR |
| Juan Manuel Decormis Benavides | Potosí | MNR |
| Luis Antonio Fernández Fajalde | Potosí | MBL |
| Luis Sanabria Taboada | Potosí | UCS |
| Nestor Zamora Muñoz | Potosí | ADN |
| Ruggero Seborga Prieto | Potosí | UCS |
| Sergio Medinacelli Soza | Potosí | MIR |
| Walter Villagra Romay | Potosí | PCB (ML) |
| Wilson Antonio Lora Espada | Potosí | ADN |
| Yerko Andrés Kukoc del Carpio | Potosí | MNR |
| Claudio Salinas Martínez | Tarija | MNR |
| Enrique Zelaya Ayllon | Tarija | MNR |
| Hugo Carvajal Donoso | Tarija | MIR |
| Imel Copa Velasquez | Tarija | MNR |
| Javier Campero Paz | Tarija | MNR |
| Jorge Gonzalo Barrientos de Ugarte | Tarija | UCS |
| Mario Arce Tórrez | Tarija | ADN |
| Martha Linares de Olivera | Tarija | MNR |
| Rafael Canedo Trigo | Tarija | ADN |
| Adela del Rosario Prado de Barbonari | Santa Cruz | MNR |
| Edil Sandoval Morón | Santa Cruz | MNRI-Siglo XX |
| Erwin Saucedo Fuentes | Santa Cruz | MBL |
| Fernando Bowles Rizzo | Santa Cruz | UCS |
| Guido Nayar | Santa Cruz | ADN |
| Guillermo Capobianco Rivera | Santa Cruz | MIR |
| Hormando Vaca Díez | Santa Cruz | MIR |
| Ismael Morón Sánchez | Santa Cruz | MNR |
| Jerjes Justiniano Talavera | Santa Cruz | ASD |
| Jorge Felix Prestel Kern | Santa Cruz | MNR |
| Justo Yepez Kakuda | Santa Cruz | CONDEPA |
| Luis Osman Landívar Bowles | Santa Cruz | UCS |
| Mario Rueda Peña | Santa Cruz | MIR |
| Neisa Roca Hurtado | Santa Cruz | ADN |
| Pedro Luis García Capriles | Santa Cruz | MNR |
| Ronald Nieme Méndez | Santa Cruz | MNR |
| Silvio Aramayo Cruz | Santa Cruz | MNR |
| Antonio Majluf Morales | Beni | MNR |
| Carlos Suárez Mendoza | Beni | MNR |
| Elena Velasco de Urresti | Beni | ADN |
| Elias Asbún Tobías | Beni | MNR |
| Hugo Yabert Lozano | Beni | MIR |
| Jorge Kohler Salas | Beni | MIR |
| Luis Enrique Monasterio Chávez | Beni | UCS |
| Luis Zambrano Ibáñez | Beni | MNR |
| Simón Guido Roca Villavicencio | Beni | ADN |
| Adolfo Áñez Ferreira | Pando | ADN |
| David Bautista Sánchez | Pando | ADN |
| Emigdio Flores Calpiñeiro | Pando | MIR |
| Felipe Bigabriel Villarreal | Pando | MNR |
| José Luis Padilla Mejido | Pando | MIR |
| Napoleón Landívar Ruiz | Pando | UCS |
| Ruth Becerra Villalobos de Leverenz | Pando | MNR |
