“We require leaderships that rewrite political history “Andrónico Rodriguez, the young head of the Bolivian Senate decided to run as a candidate for president for the elections of August 17. In this way, the left that has been majority in that Andean country is no longer divided by two factions, those of Evo Morales, its historical leader, and Luis “Lucho” Arce, the current and unpopular head of state. A third option has emerged in the middle of disputes within the movement to socialism (MAS). “Unity without polarizations”Rodríguez asked. Analysts glimpse two possibilities against that claim: the deepening of The internal war in the most or a decent exit of the conflict that allows the ruling party to be an alternative at the polls to the right.
Rodriguez was proclaimed in the city of Oruro, in the west zone of Bolivia. Before saying “I accept” before your followers, The polls placed it first, with 20%, above the businessman Samuel Doria Medina and Morales himself, Expadrino de Rodríguez, who maintains his determination to compete in August despite not having an electoral structure after breaking with the MAS, the party he founded, and creating Evo Pueblo, which has not been authorized to participate in the elections.
“If someone wants to get away, … It will only be an instrument of the empireit will only facilitate how to try to divide, so first it is unity and unity, ”said former Cocalero direct on the step that Andrónico has taken, as he is usually called.” Today you gave a blow, you betrayed the man who put you on this political path, you betrayed that man who gave you confidence and that gave you the opportunity to travel along this path, “he said with more vehemence a deputy” Evista. “
For the followers of the current president and former Evo, the emergence of a new internal line within the more is not good news. The deputy of the most Gloria Callizaya accused Andronico of “not thinking about the people, but in their personal interests.” Both the senator and Morales “They are playing with the destination of the country“. Callizaya expressed the discomfort of those who support the possible candidacy of the current Bolivian president.
Empty words
The only consolation they have at times that the aspirations of “lucho” to be reelected have been reduced to insignificance, according to the surveys, Andronic’s play does not favor Morales either. The former president claimed “unity” on the left. At this point in the controversy, the word is repeated by the three factions and has ceased to have special meaning.
“Lucho” is sentenced to an electoral beating. Morales, in the event that it could be presented, would be widely defeated in a second shift. Part of the Bolivians do not want to see it again in the burned palace, the executive headquarters. His figure has worn out by several factors. One of them was his fight to all or nothing with Arce on the ways of managing the economic crisis derived from the exhaustion of a hydrocarbon extraction model that had begun in 2006. The current government exhumed a complaint against Morales for abuse to a minor and trafficking in persons who had begun during the provisional management of Jeanine Áñezone of the participants of the coup against Evo in November 2019. While Rodríguez prepared his acceptance of the presidential candidacy, a new request to capture Morales for the judicial case was activated in La Paz after that order had been annulled by another court.
Until the irruption in Andronón’s electoral scene, the most inexorably marched to a historical defeat in August. Morales has not only broken with Arce but with Álvaro García Linera, the intellectual who served 14 years as vice president. Different figures of the Latin American left tried to mediate without luck among the Bolivian leaders faced. Rodríguez was pointed out as Evo’s “natural” successor. At this time the responsibility of avoiding disaster at the polls of the MAS falls on his back. The intention of presenting itself as a synthesis of the expressions in struggle runs however the danger of failing early. “It has no word, he broke all its principles,” said another “Evistic” deputy, Daniel Rojas.
THE RIGHT REACTION
The curious thing about his candidacy is that it is at the same time observed by the right as an undercover maneuver to replace Morales in power. “We all know that Andronón Rodríguez is the spoiled child of Evo Morales, Evo formed it politically,” said Citizen Community Legislator (CC), Alberto Astorga. “ This spawn of Evo is the new existential enemy. We will defeat you, “said another deputy of that sector, José Manuel Ormachea
The right also sustained the need for a “unit” to access the presidency. It lacks renewal figures and also leadership. Its referents are still Doria Medina, former president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga and Manfred Reyes Villa. In that area of the ideological spectrum, the Marcelo Claure, a millionaire who tries to look in Elon Musk’s mirror.
