“Compelled by the government’s attacks, its plan to ban the MAS-IPSP and defenestrate us with political processes, including physically eliminating us, we have decided to accept the requests of our militancy and of so many sisters and brothers who attend rallies throughout the country to to be a candidate for the presidency of our beloved Bolivia”said Morales on the social network X (ex Twitter).
The former president (2006-19) stated that he is going to “give everything he can” and that he will face “with truth, dignity and honesty” what he described as “aggression” on the part of the Ministry of the Presidency on social networks. “We still have strength,” he asserted.
“I want the Bolivian people to know the plan they have, if they are not going to be able to stop the Ordinary Congress of Lauca Ñ (a town in the department of Cochabamba) and disqualify us, They are going to use a woman to attack us, just like the right did“Morales said.
In this way, he made reference to a complaint that the government of de facto president Jeanine Áñez had filed in August 2020 against Morales for statutory rape, sexual abuse and human trafficking.
However, Noemí MC, 19, reported in a letter to the Ombudsman’s Office that she was forced to say that she had a romantic relationship with the former president.
Furthermore, Morales’ announcement occurred before the MAS national congress was held, from October 3 to 5, which will take place in the tropics of Cochabamba, despite the dispute with the leadership of the government that intended to hold it in the city. from El Alto, near the capital La Paz.
Complaints against the Government of Luis Arce
Yesterday, the dome of FURTHER, close to Morales, accused the government of pressuring the Supreme Electoral Tribunal through leaders to try to challenge the party congress.
The head of the ruling party insisted on his criticism of the Minister of Government, Carlos Del Castillowho in June had been censured by the Plurinational Legislative Assembly (ALP, parliament), with votes from sectors of the MAS, and was then reinstated by President Arce.
“I am very grateful to our sisters and brothers who warn us from the Ministry of Government of the intentions they have to arrest us and hand us over to the United States. We are going to fight. We are heirs of the struggles of our ancestors who have taught us to never give up,” he stated. .
And I add: “We are never going to give up, sisters and brothers! United we are going to save our beloved Bolivia again!”
“I’m going to be a candidate”
Also today, in his program on local radio Kawsachun Coca, Morales said: “They have convinced me that I am going to be a candidate, they have forced me, of course, the people want to, but they are forcing me, both against Evo, the right, the Government, the empire.”
The former president regretted that Arce, who was his Minister of Economy during his government, has not advanced “anything at all” on the agenda they carried out with 13 pillars towards the country’s bicentennial (in 2025), and assured that the Executive has a plan to defenestrate him “with political processes” and that they even want to “eliminate” him physically.
Also denounced a “dirty” campaign against himsince the opposition calls him a “drug trafficker” and the government points him out as the “king of cocaine,” he said.
For months, tensions between “evident” sectors of the MAS and the “arcist” wing, related to the Arce government, have been public.
After a series of crossed statements, the former president had assured that “Lucho (Arce) is responsible for the administrative leadership of the State” and he “is responsible for the leadership of the political movement.”
“We are both like a team,” he declared in support of the president and when asked about his eventual presidential candidacy he had assured that it was not “time for that debate.”
“I want to be president? but of the Bolivian Football Federation,” he joked.
But the next month, Morales accused the current administration of creating a plan to imprison himdenounced that followers of his sector are “harassed and denigrated” and questioned “the operators of divisionism, betrayal and opportunism.”
Days before that statement, the leadership of the ruling MAS had announced that Maple He should look for another label if he wants to go for re-election.
Yesterday, the vice president, David Choquehuanca, He stated that the country is “tired” of fighting and that the people can get angry, and called for reflection to achieve unity.
“The country is already tired of the fights we have, brothers. If we continue like this, the people may get angry at the political class,” he said at the Ordinary Congress of the Single Trade Union Federation of Peasant Communities of Tarija.
The crossings began with criticism from Morales – who maintains control of the party structure – of the economic situation, which alienated both sectors, which the local press calls “evistas” and “renovators.”
The division had its correlation in the Legislative Assembly, where in some cases the sector referenced in Morales voted alongside the opposition.
Source: Ambito
