“We will initiate all legal actions to find out who gave the order to disqualify us. For memory, truth and justice, the people have the right to know the truth. We do not intend to collect compensation. Our demand was for justice and not for money”he stressed on his social networks.
At this point, he clarified that “never” requested compensation for what happened and assured that the Supreme Electoral Tribunal acted “politically” at that time to prevent him from participating in the elections. And he added: “In 2020, the coup right disqualified us and tried to outlaw the Movement for Socialism (MAS)”. He also accused the electoral body of “attempt against the right of the people to choose freely”.
The Constitutional Court of Bolivia agreed with Morales by declaring unconstitutional the disqualification of his candidacy for senator in 2020, according to the known sentence. The decision, which was issued last May, proves that the Supreme Electoral Tribunal violated the rights of Morales by preventing him from presenting his candidacy as a senator in the elections that were held a year after he had had to give up his 2019 electoral victory and was forced to leave the country under pressure from the Armed Forces.
That move was a coup who ejected from power Jeanine Añezof the extreme right and for months imprisoned for multiple charges -among them, sedition, corruption and violation of the Constitution and human rights. His de facto government lasted only one year, after which Luis Arce, also a leftist president, took office, comfortably victorious in the general elections.
Morales, who had exiled to Argentina after the political pressure suffered by the unfounded accusations of electoral fraud in the 2019 elections, he had been registered by the MAS as first candidate for senator for the department of Cochabambathe main fiefdom of the MAS.
However, the TSE ordered -after a demand presented by the then second vice president of the Senate, Carmen Eva Gonzales Lafuente– what Morales did not meet the relevant requirements to present a candidacy for, among other reasons, having pending criminal proceedingshis status as an asylum seeker in our country and his official residence in Boliviawhich was La Paz and not Cochabamba, according to the plaintiff.
Source: Ambito
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