Maria Elizabeth Muñoz, a Chicana activist, was a third-party candidate for Vice President of the United States

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 in the United States presidential election, 1992

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, representing the New Alliance Party

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 (NAP) as the running mate of Lenora Fulani

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. Muñoz also introduced her brother Fernando to the NAP, according to Fulani.

Muñoz had been the Peace and Freedom Party

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The Peace and Freedom Party is a minor political party in California. Its first candidates appeared on the ballot in 1966, but the national party was officially founded in 1967 as a left-wing organization opposed to the Vietnam War. The party nominated Ralph Nader for President in the 2008 U.S...

 candidate for Governor of California

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 in the 1986

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 (51,995 votes 0.7%) and 1990 gubernatorial elections

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 (88,707 Votes 1.3%). Fulani had previously tried to gain that party's nomination for President in 1988. In 1988 Muñoz ran for U.S. Senate in California on the Peace & Freedom Party ballot line, finishing third with 166,600 votes for 1.71% of the total vote.