Electoral body says Morales is leader of MAS until new directive is recognized

He Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) of Bolivia indicated this Wednesday that the former president Evo Morales (2006-2019) remains the leader of the ruling party Movement for Socialism (MAS) until the new leadership is confirmed, which was elected at a party congress promoted by sectors linked to the Government of Luis Arce Last Sunday.

According to the TSE member Tahuichi Tahuichi Quispethe council chaired by Morales continues for 27 years “current and recognized” by the electoral body, until a new one is registered and recognized.

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For your part, Gustavo Ávilaalso a member of the electoral body, informed in statements to the media that the report of the congress of ADVANCE which took place from May 3 to 5 in the city of The tall by the block loyal to Arce, it will be known in 15 days and the validity of the new guideline will be determined.

After these announcements, the ‘arcist’ sectors warned this Wednesday that “will mobilize“If the new MAS president is not ratified, Grover Garcia who replaced Morales, and his leadership.

Mario Seña, secretary general of Single Confederation of Peasant Workers Unions (Csutcb), an organization close to the Government, declared that “the population is in emergency” is that “there will be some demonstrations”if the Electoral Body does not recognize Grover García as the new official leader.

Former President Morales described “illegal“the conclave and warned that he will give a strong”legal battle“In order not to be relegated to party leadership, he also declared that he will be a presidential candidate in the 2025 presidential elections.”For the good or for the bad”.

Organizations loyal to the former president planned their own MAS congress for July 10 in Villa Tunariat the Tropic of Cochabambapolitical and union stronghold of Morales, and they also expect the TSE to follow this appointment.

The new president of MAS, Grover García, called a new congress in three months, to change the party’s statutes and “met again” for what “never again be in the hands of a single person”, as President Arce had already pointed out at the beginning of last Friday’s conclave.

While Morales accused this Sunday President Arce, who was his Economy Minister, of having a plan to “enlarge”in power and said that the president“offered to the magistrates of the Plurinational Constitutional Court an extension of his mandate until 2027″to help you with this“flat”.

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Arce and Morales have been away since 2021 and last year the division in the ruling party deepened, due to the holding of a national congress in which, in the absence of the president and his loyal sectors, the former president was confirmed as leader of the MAS and It was named “single candidate”for the 2025 elections.

Arce did not attend that meeting because he considered that social organizations, the party’s base, were not properly represented.

Tensions rose after the TSE decided to cancel the 2023 congress and instruct the convening of a new consensual one, something with which both pro-government factions also did not agree.

Source: Elcomercio

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