Zacarías Colque
Zacarías Colque | |
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| Member of the Chamber of Deputies from Potosí circumscription 38 | |
| In office 18 January 2015 – 3 November 2020 | |
| Substitute | Eunecia López |
| Preceded by | Richard Cordel[α] |
| Succeeded by | Gladys Chumacero |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | Zacarías Colque Matías 8 February 1967 Movement for Socialism |
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Zacarías Colque Matías (8 February 1967 – 24 September 2022) was a Bolivian agricultural worker, politician, and trade unionist who served as a member of the
Movement for Socialism, Colque built his career in northern Potosí's rural trade syndicates. The party's long-established alliance with the agrarian sector
facilitated Colque's entry into politics, first as a member of the Caripuyo Municipal Council and much later as a parliamentarian.
Early life and career
Zacarías Colque was born on 8 February 1967 in
agricultural worker before becoming active in the regional's peasant labor movement.[6]
Colque progressively climbed the ranks of northern Potosí's agrarian trade syndicates, starting at the local level as general secretary of a small union in Huanacoma, then at the municipal as executive secretary of Caripuyo's sectional workers' center. These positions opened the door to more prominent roles, and he topped off his union career as executive secretary of the Unified Syndical Federation of Native Workers of Northern Potosí.[6][7]
Chamber of Deputies
Election
As a leader in Potosí's agrarian syndicates, Colque represented a confluence of
Movement for Socialism (MAS-IPSP) facilitated Colque's entry into politics.[6][8] Having served as president of the MAS's branch in Caripuyo, he achieved his first elective position locally, serving as a member and eventual president of the Caripuyo Municipal Council.[4][7]
Absent from ensuing election cycles, Colque returned to the political scene in 2014, with his nomination for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies. He ran to represent the MAS in Potosí's circumscription 38, encompassing the department's northern provinces. In one of the bastions of electoral support for the party, Colque won without any significant competition.[6]
Tenure
In office, Colque focused his parliamentary term on
native culture[9] and occupying positions on committees related to the topic. He held a seat on the Planning Commission's Indigenous Jurisdiction Committee and chaired both the Indigenous Peoples and Nations Committee and the Cultures Committee, the former for two terms and the latter for one.[10] As with the vast majority of legislators who entered parliament in representation of MAS-aligned groups, Colque was not nominated for reelection, reflecting the party's practice of renewing its electoral lists to make way for new leaders from allied social sectors.[11][12] He died shortly after leaving office, on 24 September 2022.[13]
Commission assignments
- Plural Economy, Production, and Industry Commission
- Rural Native Indigenous Jurisdiction Committee (2015–2016)[14]
- Rural Native Indigenous Peoples and Nations, Cultures, and Interculturality Commission
- Amazon Region, Land, Territory, Water, Natural Resources, and Environment Commission
- Amazon Region, Land, and Territory Committee (2017–2018)[18]
Electoral history
| Year | Office | Party | Votes | Result | Ref. | |||
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| Total | % | P. | ||||||
| 2004 | Sub. Councillor | Movement for Socialism
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2,358 | 91.83% | 1st | Won | [19][β] | |
| 2014 | Deputy | Movement for Socialism
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25,954 | 71.98% | 1st | Won | [20] | |
| Source: Plurinational Electoral Organ | Electoral Atlas | ||||||||
References
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Notes
- ^ Redistribution; circumscription 40.
- ^ Presented on an electoral list. The data shown represents the share of the vote the entire party/alliance received in that constituency.
Footnotes
- ^ "Padrón electoral biométrico y militancia: Zacarías Colque Matías". yoparticipo.oep.org.bo (in Spanish). La Paz: Plurinational Electoral Organ. 28 July 2022. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
- ^ Romero Ballivián 2018, pp. 18, 24.
- ^ Smink, Veronica (30 July 2015). "Bolivia y la paradoja de Potosí: El departamento más rico con la población más pobre". BBC Mundo (in Spanish). London. Archived from the original on 1 August 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
- ^ a b Chávez, Franz (17 December 2004). Written at La Paz. "Bolivia: Children under threat". Inter Press Service. Rome. Archived from the original on 9 February 2023. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
- ^ Burgoa Rosso 2017, p. 127.
- ^ a b c d Romero Ballivián 2018, p. 168.
- ^ a b "Zacarías Colque Matías". vicepresidencia.gob.bo (in Spanish). La Paz: Vice Presidency. Archived from the original on 22 October 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
- ^ do Alto, Hervé (2011). "Un partido campesino en el poder. Una mirada sociológica del MAS boliviano". Nueva Sociedad (in Spanish). No. 234. Archived from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
- ^ Chamber of Deputies [@Diputados_Bol] (13 May 2019). "La Cancillería de Bolivia realiza el evento 'Año Internacional de las Lenguas Indígenas'" (Tweet) (in Spanish). La Paz. Archived from the original on 19 October 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2023 – via Twitter.
- ^ For citations, see § Commission assignments.
- ^ Romero Ballivián 2018, p. 252.
- ^ "Lista Final de Candidaturas Habilitadas de las Organizaciones Políticas y Alianzas: Movimiento al Socialismo" (PDF). oep.org.bo (in Spanish). La Paz: Plurinational Electoral Organ. 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 March 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
- ^ Chamber of Deputies (26 September 2022). "Q.E.P.D. Zacarías Colque Matías" (in Spanish). La Paz. Archived from the original on 13 August 2023. Retrieved 13 August 2023 – via Facebook.
- ^ "La Cámara de Diputados conformó sus 12 Comisiones y 37 Comités: Gestión Legislativa 2015–2016". diputados.bo (in Spanish). La Paz: Chamber of Deputies. 29 January 2015. Archived from the original on 17 July 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
- ^ "La Cámara de Diputados conformó sus 12 Comisiones y 37 Comités: Gestión Legislativa 2018–2019". diputados.bo (in Spanish). La Paz: Chamber of Deputies. 1 February 2018. Archived from the original on 14 February 2018. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
- ^ Chamber of Deputies [@Diputados_Bol] (27 January 2016). "La Cámara de Diputados conformó sus 12 Comisiones y 37 Comités: Gestión Legislativa 2016–2017" (Tweet) (in Spanish). La Paz. Archived from the original on 23 November 2022. Retrieved 22 November 2022 – via Twitter.
- ^ "La Cámara de Diputados conformó sus 12 Comisiones y 37 Comités: Gestión Legislativa 2019–2020". diptuados.bo (in Spanish). La Paz: Chamber of Deputies. 24 January 2019. Archived from the original on 28 January 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
- ^ Chamber of Deputies [@Diputados_Bol] (1 February 2017). "La Cámara de Diputados conformó sus 12 Comisiones y 37 Comités: Gestión Legislativa 2017–2018" (Tweet) (in Spanish). La Paz. Archived from the original on 23 November 2022. Retrieved 22 November 2022 – via Twitter.
- ^ "Elecciones Municipales 2004 | Atlas Electoral". atlaselectoral.oep.org.bo (in Spanish). La Paz: Plurinational Electoral Organ. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
- ^ "Elecciones Generales 2014 | Atlas Electoral". atlaselectoral.oep.org.bo (in Spanish). La Paz: Plurinational Electoral Organ. Archived from the original on 9 February 2023. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
Bibliography
- Burgoa Rosso, Lenny Gisel (2017). Las Mujeres en la Asamblea Legislativa y Gestión Parlamentaria (Thesis) (in Spanish). La Paz: Universidad Mayor de San Andrés Facultad de Ciencias Sociales.
- OCLC 1050945993 – via ResearchGate.
External links
- Parliamentary profile Office of the Vice President (in Spanish).
- Parliamentary profile Chamber of Deputies (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 7 July 2020.
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