Английская Википедия:Carlos Alberto Sonnenschein

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Carlos Alberto Sonnenschein Antelo (born 28 January 1961) is a Bolivian businessman, politician, and rancher who served as senator for Beni from 2010 to 2015. A member of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement, he previously served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from Beni, representing circumscription 64 from 2002 to 2010.

Born into a wealthy upper-class family from Riberalta, Sonnenschein's early career was characteristic of many of Beni's economic elite. He held executive positions in the most relevant corporate entities handling the department's export and cattle industries and played prominent roles in the civic sector, including chairing Riberalta's civic committee as well as its major utility cooperatives and sports associations.

Having served in leadership within the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement's Riberalta affiliate, Sonnenschein won a seat representing the municipality in the Chamber of Deputies in 2002. Reelected to a second term in 2005, he survived the party's dramatic fall from grace, a decline that, by 2009, led him to join National Convergence for his final electoral bid for Senate. Despite serving a collective twelve years between his three parliamentary terms, Sonnenschein was conspicuously absent most of the time, preferring to remain in his home region than deal with the goings on at the capital.

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Early life and career

Carlos Alberto Sonnenschein was born on 28 January 1961 in Riberalta to a regionally influential family of wealthy Amazonian landowners.Шаблон:Sfn Descended from European emigrants that first settled northern Beni during the early 20th-century rubber boom,Шаблон:Sfn Sonnenschein's family comprises part of the Riberalta's economic elite;Шаблон:Sfn in the absence of the state apparatus, white-mestizo clans like Sonnenschein's exercised immense, semi-autonomous societal influence, projecting their power through the accumulation of capital and control over major local industriesШаблон:Sndprimarily the cattle ranching business.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn-lg

Owing to his affluent upbringing, Sonnenschein quickly rose to high-level positions within northern Beni's leading private and public entities. A graduate of Riberalta's prestigious Pedro Kramer School, he chaired the Northeast Chamber of Exporters from 1996 to 1998 and was vice president of its parent organization, the National Chamber of Exporters, from 1997 to 1999. In the civic sector, he directed the local electricity and telecommunications cooperatives, headed Riberalta's football and basketball associations, and was president of the Riberalta Civic Committee.Шаблон:Sfn

Chamber of Deputies

Election

Шаблон:Further Among Beni's elites, participation in politics came as a natural evolution of their regional economic influence.Шаблон:Sfn After the democratic transition, many wealthy families aligned themselves with either Nationalist Democratic Action or the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR)Шаблон:Sndthe parties most receptive to their demands and needsШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sndin effect creating a two-party system in which each front asserted its influence by proxy of competing clans; political conflicts translated to intrafamily ones,Шаблон:Sfn party membership drew more from familial tradition than ideological conviction,Шаблон:Sfn and the department's electoral bipolarity, in turn, prevented the emergence of significant counterweights to either side's socioeconomic hegemony.Шаблон:Sfn

By the turn of the century, Riberalta had established itself as an electoral bastion of the MNR,Шаблон:Sfn with the region's elites having monopolized northern Beni's most important executive and legislative positions.Шаблон:Sfn As chair of the local civic community, Sonnenschein enjoyed important political and lobbying connectionsШаблон:Sfn and by 2001, he had been named deputy leader of the MNR's Riberalta affiliate.Шаблон:Sfn When in 2002 Sonnenschein's brother-in-law, Sandro Soriano, vacated his seat in the Chamber of Deputies to run for Senate, Sonnenschein was given the opportunity to contest the 64th district, in which he easily prevailed.Шаблон:Sfn

Reelected in 2005, Sonnenschein's political career survived the dramatic decline of the MNRШаблон:Sndhit hard by the stigma of its role in the 2003 gas conflict, the party saw its worst electoral showing in its organizational history. In part, Sonnenschein's success owed to the continued degree of support afforded to the MNR in one of its traditional regions of support: the Amazon, in particularly Beni, where it won its only senator and two single-member constituency victoriesШаблон:Sndincluding Sonnenschein. Even then, Sonnenschein's personal popularity cannot be discounted as a factor, especially since, on the presidential ballot, Michiaki Nagatani took second place in the same district.Шаблон:Sfnm

Tenure

As with many parliamentarians who hail from the northeastern departments, Sonnenschein's legislative tenure showed more interest in fortifying his local presence, popularity, and influence back home than in dealing with the various congressional conflicts and crises taking place in La Paz at any given time. Though the resulting regional recognition certainly benefitted him electorally,Шаблон:Sfn it came at the cost of actual political participation. By 2009, Sonnenschein had come to be noted for the high quantity of absencesШаблон:Sndoften unexcusedШаблон:Sndhe had accumulated throughout his two terms and seven years in office.Шаблон:Sfn Year on year, he consistently topped the list of the most absentee legislators, accruing BsШаблон:Nbsp40,950 in sanctions between January and August 2007 alone.Шаблон:Sfnm In all, according to Movement for Socialism deputy Martín Mollo, Sonnenschein missed ninety-eight percent of all sessions held during the 2006–2010 congressional term, leaving his legislative record largely a mystery and making him a true unknown among journalists and staffers in parliament.Шаблон:Sfn

Commission assignments

Chamber of Senators

Election

Шаблон:Further Weakened and in continuous political decline, the MNR entered the 2009 elections on its last legs; its presidential candidate, Germán Antelo, stayed in the race for just over a month, only to abruptly step down to support National Convergence (PPB-CN), the multi-front mega-coalition backing Manfred Reyes Villa. As a result, for the first time in decades, the MNR did not participate in a national election.Шаблон:Sfn Amid the conspicuous absence of key party figures and political families from the electoral arena,Шаблон:Sfn Sonnenschein was among the few MNR legislators to successfully secure a candidacy on one of the still-competing parliamentary listsШаблон:Sndnominated by CN to contest a seat in the Senate,Шаблон:Sfn a position he won.Шаблон:Sfn

Tenure

In contrast to the rest of CN's parliamentary caucusШаблон:Sndeternally engulfed in constant infighting over the scant positions of power afforded to the minority blocШаблон:SndSonnenschein preferred to play a more laid-back role throughout his senatorial tenure, as he had done in the two previous legislatures. In a scenario where his nine opposition colleagues frequently clashed with one another over which commission they ought to chair, Sonnenschein opted to spend the few sessions he actually attended working from one of the upper chamber's many committeesШаблон:Sndpositions "nobody fights for." When, by process of elimination, he was finally due to assume a seat on the Senate's powerful directorate in 2014, Sonnenschein ceded his right to colleague Jeanine Áñez.Шаблон:Sfn When mentioning Sonnenschein in its recounting of CN's fraught parliamentary history, outlet La Razón put plainly: "Sonnenschein, who?".Шаблон:Sfn

Commission assignments

Electoral history

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Year Office Party Alliance Votes Result Шаблон:Abbr.
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2002 Deputy rowspan=2 style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color;"| Revolutionary Nationalist Movement style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color;"| MNR-MBL 8,770 45.71% 1st rowspan=2 Шаблон:Yes2 Шаблон:Sfn
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2005 style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color;"| Revolutionary Nationalist Movement colspan=2 Шаблон:CNone 6,857 43.66% 1st Шаблон:Yes2 Шаблон:Sfn
2009 Senator style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color;"| Revolutionary Nationalist Movement style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color;"| National Convergence 85,631 53.15% 1st Шаблон:Yes2 Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn-lg
Source: Plurinational Electoral Organ | Electoral Atlas

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