The Bolivian President Evo Morales (2006-2019) announced Wednesday that he will register his candidacy for the presidential elections of August 17 with a “borrowed” party and with “thousands and thousands” of followers, In addition, he will ask the international community to enforce the laws of Bolivia.
“The day of registration, missing two or three days (for the conclusion of the term), we will go thousands and thousands to peace,” Morales said during a meeting with related leaders from the department of Chuquisaca (southeast) in the town of Lauca ñ.
Morales said that half of the population of the Tropic of Cochabamba (center), his main political and union bastion, will accompany him for the registration of his candidacy, so he encouraged his followers to “Be enlisting.”
“Imagine, let’s see, don’t register us? Let’s invite the international community (a) That he comes to enforce national standards nothing more, we are enabled, “he emphasized.
The politician shared with the leaders some axes of his government proposal such as incentives for private investment, a tax reform and the application of social programs in addition to the Lifting of the subsidy to fuels.
“If we campaign, if they were the elections tomorrow, We would win with more than 60 %“He said.
Morales holds several meetings daily with the sectors that support him in the tropics of Cochabamba, region that has not been released since October of last year to avoid executing an arrest warrant against him.
The former governor is investigated for aggravated trafficking of people for allegedly maintaining a relationship with a minor with whom he had a child during his presidency.
Recently a judge declared Morales “rebel“For not introducing two audiences, so apart he dictated a new arrest warrantroots, the preventive annotation of their assets and the freezing of their bank accounts.
Likewise, both Morales and his followers argue that he is enabled to be again a presidency candidate, despite the constitutional judgment of the late 2023 that establishes that the re -election in Bolivia is for “One time” Still the discontinue way.
This would affect the pregibernant’s claims that led Bolivia three times (2006-2009, 2010-2014 y 2015-2019).
The groups that support the former president are armed to form an alliance that allows them present to the next national elections with a different political party to the movement to socialism (more).
Morales lost the leadership of the MAS in November, After almost three decades, for a constitutional ruling that ordered the TSE to recognize as the new president of the party Grover García, who is close to the current president Luis Arce.
The former president related sectors are planned on Friday in the Cochabamba town of Tiraque to publicize the name of the party with which they will be presented in the next elections.
The Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) This day reported that the deadline for the registration of alliances and parties that have concluded its process of legal entity is April 18, while the registration of candidacies is scheduled for the first days of May.
Evo Morales is away from President Arce from late 2021due to differences in the management of the Executive and in the management of the government.
