The former president of Bolivia Evo Morales (2006-2019) said Saturday that with his new political party, which will be created in a congress with his followers this weekend, he will win the general elections of August and thus “will save Bolivia.”
“There is no plan B here, when they talk about Plan B (refer) to the Empire, the Government and the right, there is only one plan, the unique candidate is evo president (…) We will all win the elections to save Bolivia”Said the ex -president during his speech in Congress with his followers, which takes place until Monday in the central town of Villa Tunari of the Tropic of Cochabamba, his main political and trade union bastion.
In parallel, the official party Movement to socialism (More) meets in La Paz to modify its statutes and remove the article that names Morales as “born leader” of the block, who led the party almost 30 years and now resigned from his militancy and launched his presidential candidacy with Victory Front (FPV) for August elections.
“I summon you responsibly, at the head of the leaders of the political instrument (elaborate) new political thesis, new structure of the instrument and we will give birth to a new name, the real”, The former president of Bolivia pointed out.
Rouped by thousands of related related at the Villa Tunari stadium, Morales said that he, his leaders and his followers are those who are “defending true democracy.”
“Only this people will defend the economy, democracy and our beloved and beloved Bolivia,” He added.
Morales also recalled that, in his opinion, in a “illegal to unconstitutional” Plurinational Constitutional (TCP) recognized Grover García in November, related to President Luis Arce, as the new president of the official party.
For his part, Ponciano Santos, loyal leader to Morales of the Single Trade Union Confederation of Peasant Workers of Bolivia (CSUTCB), said that “the only one who can save Bolivia” from the economic situation he lives is the former governor.
“I call unity and I summon everyone not to betray our history, not betray our commander Evo and continue fighting for our homeland. We are not going to bend, nor are we going to kneel before this government on the right, much less before the empire. Traitors do not serve us “Santos said.
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The president said that 27 commissions were formed that will work on issues of lithium, economy, mother earth, tourism and policies, among others, to prepare the plan of the new political party and that the conclusions plus the name of the new block will be released on Monday.
Morales participated in the inauguration of the Congress despite the arrest warrant against him for an aggravated trafficking case of people and for which hundreds of his followers protect him in the region to prevent him from being captured.
Both meetings will be held when the most turns 30 as the main political party of representation of the popular, indigenous and peasants sectors of the last decades.
The Bolivian ruling began to divide after the political crisis of 2019 which caused Morales’s resignation to the presidency and his exile to Mexico and Argentina.
In addition Arce and Morales began to distance themselves at the end of 2021 for differences in the presidential candidacy of MAS and for government decisions.