his closer relations with Morales. Ultimately, however, challenges to Copa's presidency failed to manifest, and she was ratified as head of the Senate in early 2020, whereas Montes was replaced as first vice president by Senator Omar Aguilar. Montes was not nominated for reelection in either 2019 or the rerun general elections of 2020. Nonetheless, at the end of his term, he remained in the Legislative Assembly, where he continued to exercise public functions as a minor official into 2021. Commission assignments Chamber of Senators Directorate (First Vice President: –) Territorial Organization of the State and Autonomies Commission Departmental Autonomies Committee (Secretary: –) Plural Economy, Production, Industry, and Industrialization Commission Energy, Hydrocarbons, Mining, and Metallurgy Committee (Secretary: –, , ) Rural Native Indigenous Peoples and Nations and Interculturality Commission Cultures, Interculturality, and Cultural Heritage Committee (Secretary: –) Ideology and personal life Montes belongs to the second generation of COB leaders whose ideological formation derives from the paramount labor activists of the day, namely: , Juan Lechín, , , , and Oscar Salas. In his youth, Montes was a member of Guillermo Lora's Revolutionary Workers' Party. Although distanced from it by the time of his assumption as leader of the COB, he nonetheless retained the "Trotskyist principles" he acquired as a member of the party. During his tenure as head of the COB, Montes also participated in sports organizing. In 2010, he was elected president of the board of directors of Club 31 de Octubre – Huanuni. The team, later renamed to , attained legal status in 2012. It is owned by the Huanuni mining district and represents the approximately 5,000 mineworkers employed by the Bolivian Mining Corporation. Electoral history References Notes Footnotes Bibliography External links Senate profile Vice Presidency . Senate profile Chamber of Senators . Archived from the original on 16 November 2019. 1960 births Living people 21st-century Bolivian politicians Bolivian football chairmen and investors Bolivian miners Bolivian people of Quechua descent Bolivian politicians of indigenous peoples descent Bolivian senators from Oruro Bolivian Trotskyists Executive Secretaries of the Bolivian Workers' Center Movement for Socialism (Bolivia) politicians People from Rafael Bustillo Province Quechua politicians