Bolivian Constitutional Court annuls re-election for an indefinite period and disqualifies Evo Morales from the 2025 elections

The Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP) of Bolivia annulled the indefinite presidential re-election in the Andean country, which means the disqualification of Evo Morales for the 2025 elections.

In Constitutional Instruction 1,010/2023, approved this Friday, December 29, they point out that presidential re-election for an indefinite period does not exist and “is not a human right”.

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Thus, it establishes that the president and vice-president of Bolivia cannot serve a mandate more than twice, continuously or discontinuously, as senators, deputies or judicial authorities.

This makes it impossible for Evo Morales to run in the 2025 presidential elections, as was his intention.

The politician, leader of the Movement to Socialism (MAS) party, governed for three consecutive periods between 2006 and 2019.

The decision was taken in application of an advisory opinion from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights that in 2019 and annuls a decision that the TCP itself issued in 2017.

A sentence and a referendum

The Political Constitution of the State of Bolivia establishes that no one can govern the country for more than two consecutive terms.

In In February 2016, a referendum was held to approve or reject the constitutional amendment project. to reverse this and allow both the president and vice president to govern for more terms.

The “No” won with 51.30% of the votes.

Evo Morales He didn’t know the result and in 2017 the Constitutional Court authorized him to run again. considering that their human rights have been violated.

Last September, Evo Morales announced that he wanted to run in the 2025 elections. With this new decision, these aspirations are nullified.

Everything happens amid a battle between Evo himself and the country’s current president, Luis Arce, who went from being his main student and ally to “worst enemy”, in Morales’ words.

The former president denounced on successive occasions that Arce intended to disqualify him from the next elections.

“End point to Evo’s delirium”

Evo Morales has not yet commented on this new phrase.

However, several opposition spokespeople applauded the TCP’s decision.

One of the first was former president Jeanine Añez, who said on social media “This puts an end to Evo Morales’ delusion of being re-elected forever.”

“He set up the 2019 electoral fraud, violated the Constitution and Referendum #21F to perpetuate himself. He must answer to justice for his crimes, instigation of violence and lack of power,” he added.

Former president Jorge Quiroga also spoke about the subject, highlighting that “Re-election is not a human right.”

“Evo: you had 3 mandates, you used 2, you owe us 1, not MORE, never MORE”, wrote Quiroga, alluding to Evo’s party, the Movement to Socialism (MAS).

Luis Fernando Camacho, governor of the state of Santa Cruz and currently in prison accused of his role in the fall of Morales in 2019, also spoke out through a letter distributed by his political group, Creo.

“With this TCP failure, We, Bolivians, guarantee that no apprentice tyrant will ever appear again who tramples on the vote, ignore a referendum, commit fraud, with the sole intention of staying in power. “Democracy always triumphs, dictators are overcome and judged by history.”

Although there have been no incidents so far, Evo Morales’ followers threatened strong responses in the streets if the disqualification occurred.

Source: Elcomercio

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