São Paulo, SP (Folhapress)-The soap opera of the candidacy of the presidential presidency of Bolivia seems to have come to an end on Monday (19). President of the South American country between 2006 and 2019, the politician wanted to return to office in the next elections in August, but failed to try to circumvent a legal ban on the record of his plate.
According to the local Electoral Supreme Court, supporters of Evo tried to register him in the race until Monday night, but the Bolivian National Action Party), a caption that the former president recently chose to run for the claim, has no legal recognition, said a court official.
The dispute has been going on for months. Evo announced his claim to return to the Quema Palace in September 2023, shortly after misunderstandings with his political heir and current president, Luis Arce, they reach a break. At the time, the former leader said he was forced to run for the post due to attacks from the current government that, in his words, would pay attention against his life.
In the following years, Evo would lose the fight with the former ally for control of the MAS (movement to socialism). Without the leftist party that has dominated Bolivian policy since the early 2000s, the former president resorted to victory earlier this year, and finally to Pan -ball, when the first alliance broke out.
However, Bolivia’s electoral court annulled the legal entity of both parties on the grounds that they did not reach 3% of the votes in the last presidential elections in 2020.
The legal impediments of the acronyms, however, were just a detail in the face of other issues involving the candidacy. Last week, for example, the Constitutional Court has ruled that the former president cannot be a candidate for a fourth term -Bolivia’s Magna Carta says there may only be one reelection for office, something the politician has already managed to dribble when he was reappointed for the third time in 2014.
In 2019, by the way, he sought a fourth term and was first in the presidential elections, but the result was not recognized by the opposition and he ended up exaching in Mexico. Who took power interim at the time was Jeanine Añez, who was two years later arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison on the charge of organizing a coup against his former leader.
Seven months ago, Evo has been housed in the Chapare region of central Bolivia after a court ordered his arrest in January due to a case in which he is accused of raping and trafficking a teenager.
The scandal surfaced in October 2024, when Arce’s government confirmed the existence of the investigation against the former president. According to the prosecution, Evo would have raped a 15 -year -old in 2015 with the consent of his parents, who would have gathered benefits from the government -he was president at the time.
According to the prosecutor, the teenager would have had a daughter as a result of rape. According to the investigation, the victim’s parents entered her in Evo’s “youth guard” “with the sole purpose of ascending politically and gaining benefits in exchange for her minor daughter”. The former president denies the accusations.
Evo made no comment on the latest impediment to his candidacy, but his followers announced protests from this Tuesday.
Until Monday, the Bolivian Electoral Court had registered ten parties and political groups. The Court will also analyze the candidacy of the Senate President, Andronics Rodríguez, by the Popular Alliance Front, until the court decides if he has fulfilled the party rules.
Cocalem leader, Rodríguez was considered Evo’s political heir leading several polls. But it will launch former government minister Eduardo del Castillo after Arce decides not to run for reelection.
The strongest opponents to face the left block are social democratic entrepreneur Samuel Doria Medina and former right-wing president Jorge Quiroga. The group of candidates also has other former MAS Militants and center and right aspirants of lower electoral weight.
