Evo Morales challenges Luis Arce again justice and announces his candidacy for president of Bolivia

“The day of registration, missing two or three days (for the conclusion of the deadline), we will go thousands and thousands to peace,” Morales said on Wednesday, during a meeting with related leaders from the department of Chuquisaca (in Southeast of the country) in the town of Lauca ñ.

The leader of the Cocaleros producers, who ruled Bolivia between 2006 and 2019 said that half of the population of the Tropic of Cochabamba, his main political and trade union bastion, will accompany him for the registration of his candidacy, so he encouraged his followers to “Be enlisting.”

“Imagine, let’s see, do not register us? We are going to invite the international community (a) to come to enforce national norms nothing more, we are enabled,” he emphasized.

The former president shared with the leaders some axes of his government proposal such as incentives for private investment, tax reform and the application of social programs in addition to the lifting of the subsidy to fuels.

“If we campaign, if they were the elections tomorrow, we would win with more than 60%,” he said.

Morales holds several meetings daily with the sectors that support it in the Tropic of Cochabamba, a region that has not been released since October last year to prevent an arrest warrant against him.

The former president is investigated for aggravated trafficking of people for allegedly maintaining a relationship with a minor with whom he had a child during his presidency.

Recently a judge declared Morales “Rebelde” for not submitting to two hearings, so he gave a new arrest warrant, roots, the preventive annotation of his assets and the freezing of his bank accounts.

Likewise, both Morales and his followers argue that he is enabled to be a presidential candidate again, despite the constitutional judgment of the end of 2023 that establishes that Reelection in Bolivia is for “one time” Still the discontinue way.

This would affect the claims of the former ruler who led Bolivia three times (2006-2009, 2010-2014 and 2015-2019).

The groups that support Morales are steps to form an alliance that allows them to present themselves to the next national elections with a political party other than the movement to socialism (MAS).

Morales lost the leadership of the MAS in November, After almost three decades, for a constitutional ruling that ordered the TSE to recognize as the new president of the party Grover García, who is close to the current president Luis Arce.

The sectors related to the former president have planned a meeting on Friday in the Cochabambina Tiraque town to publicize the name of the party with which they will be presented in the next elections.

The Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) reported this day that the deadline for the registration of alliances and parties that have concluded its process of legal entity is April 18, while the registration of candidacies is scheduled for the first days of May .

Evo Morales has been away from President Arce since the late 2021, due to differences in the management of the Executive and in the management of the Government.