Percy Fernández

Percy Fernández Añez (14 February 1939 – 1 September 2025) was a Bolivian civil engineer and politician.

Life and career

Fernández was born in Santa Cruz de la Sierra on 14 February 1939. He was elected vice-president of the Public Works Committee of Santa Cruz, of which he was later its president. And a couple of years later, he was the first President of the Regional Development Corporation of Santa Cruz.[1]

He was Elected President of the Pro Santa Cruz Committee in 1983, and re-elected the following year, he led the preparation of the first Departmental Governments and Decentralization Bill.[2]

Fernández was elected Senator of the Republic in 1989. And then elected by popular vote Mayor of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, a position he would hold for three consecutive terms, between 1990 and 1995 (January 1990 – October 1991; January 1992 – October 1993; January 1994 – October 1995). He was elected City Councilor from 1996 to 2004. Again Mayor, for five years from January 2005 to January 2010 and re-elected on 4 April 2010, until 2015.[3]

As a candidate of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR), he was the winner of the elections in 1989, 1991 and 1993, while in 2005 he was a candidate of the Broad Front Together for All (FAJPT) and in 2010 he formed his second citizen group, called Santa Cruz Para Todos (SPT), being elected on 4 April as mayor with 52% of the votes.[4]

In 2015 he was reelected for what would be, constitutionally, his last term from 2015 to 2020, a term that was extended by law after the political crisis of 2019 and that he could not finish for health reasons (being in risk groups for COVID-19).[5]

Fernández died on 1 September 2025, at the age of 86.[6]

References

  1. ^ Administrator. "Percy Fernández Añez". www.santacruzparatodos.org (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
  2. ^ Deber, El. "El drama humano de Percy Fernández, así se ve hoy el exalcalde de Santa Cruz de la Sierra | El Deber". eldeber.com.bo (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 September 2025.
  3. ^ "Percy Fernández alcalde cruceño por quinta vez". hoybolivia.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 September 2025.
  4. ^ "Percy Fernández alcalde cruceño por quinta vez". hoybolivia.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 September 2025.
  5. ^ "Angélica Sosa asume la Alcaldía de Santa Cruz de manera interina". Los Tiempos (in Spanish). 2 April 2020. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
  6. ^ Sierra, María Silvia TrigoDesde Santa Cruz de la (2 September 2025). "Bolivia: Murió Percy Fernández, el seis veces alcalde y "constructor" de Santa Cruz de la Sierra". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 3 September 2025.
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