Evo Morales warns that he will be a presidential candidate “by hook or by crook”

The former president of Bolivia and leader of the ruling party Movement for Socialism (ADVANCE), Evo Morales (2006-2019), announced this Saturday that he will be his party’s presidential candidate for the 2025 presidential elections.”For the good or for the bad”, during a message to his followers in the region of Cochabambaits political and trade union bastion.

Morales guaranteed that he is qualified to be a candidate, despite the Plurinational Constitutional Court The Bolivian government issued a decision in December stating that elections would be held indefinitely “It is not a human right”.

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This decision indicates that a person can be president of the country for only two terms, continuously or discontinuously.

The former president governed for three periods: from 2006 to 2010, from 2010 to 2014; and from 2014 to 2019.

“So far we are legally and constitutionally qualified to be president, this is not up for debate. What they are doing is seeing how with self-extensions they look for how to eliminate, how to disable me. This is the fight and they can’t do it”, stated Morales.

The former president also said that he has the support and “is defended” per “left-wing governments in Latin America”, and appointed as his allies the presidents Lula da Silvafrom Brazil, and Nicolás MaduroFrom Venezuela.

He also added that if they don’t want to qualify him as a candidate “for the good” to be “for evil”And that this will be achieved with“mobilizations”.

In turn, social sectors linked to the former head of state come together to take measures against the congress of ADVANCEpromoted by the Government of Luis Arcewhat happens in the city of The tall and will end on Sunday.

Morales appealed to his followers to “mobilize” against the congress of sectors close to the president and ordered them to “get ready to take to the streets”.

The bloc that supports Morales called its own congress of the ruling party for July 10th, in the city of Villa Tunariat the Tropic of Cochabamba.

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Arce and Morales have been apart since 2021, and last year their differences deepened due to the holding of a national party congress in which, in the absence of the president and his loyal sectors, the former president was ratified as leader of the MAS and appointed “single candidate”for the 2025 elections.

The president did not attend this meeting because he considered that social organizations, the basis of MAS, were not properly represented.

Tensions increased after the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) decided to cancel the 2023 congress and instruct the convening of a new consensus, something with which both pro-government factions also did not agree.

Source: Elcomercio

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