[2] The Popular Christian Movement differed somewhat from other official parties in that it sought – and to a degree maintained – contact with peasant union organizations.
The Popular Christian Movement, like other parties organized from the presidential palace, served to give some politicians a start in national politics.
José Ortiz Mercado, for example, who became a major figure in the Alfredo Ovando Candía administration (1969–1971), was a Popular Christian Movement member of the National Congress from Santa Cruz Department elected in 1966.
[3] For all practical purposes, the MPC died with the accidental death of General René Barrientos Ortuño early 27 April 1969 and has had no political power in decades.
[4] In 1978, the Popular Christian Movement took part in an electoral coalition Nationalist Union of the People backing Juan Pereda Asbún.