He exmandatary of Bolivia, Evo Moraleshis alignment with the political party announced Thursday Victory Front (FPV) in order to Present as the sole candidate of the same to the presidential elections that will be held in that country on August 17.
Morales will try to get to the presidency Although Bolivian justice prevents itsince in that country you can only hold the position during a mandate of two continuous or discontinuous periods.
Together with his followers in the tropics of Cochabamba, the politician said: “We already have the game to participate in this year’s elections!” The announcement is given a day before the MOVEMENT TO SOCIALISM (MAS)Allied to the President Luis Arcehold a congress to define the mechanisms to choose the official binomial.
Morales ceased to be the president of the MAS last year, after the judicial and electoral bodies validated a congress held in May 2024 by the sector related to Arce, designating the leader Grover García as the new leader of that party.
“With the Victoria Front again we will win the national elections (…); I want you to know that there is no conditioning, here is everything to save Bolivia”hill.
Under this framework, Morales remarks that he has the authorization to exercise the presidential position, arguing a constitutional ruling that establishes that re -election in Bolivia is for “one time” continuously or discontinuously. It should be noted that the former president was in charge of Bolivia for three periods in a row, from 2006 to 2009; 2010 to 2014 and 2015 to 2019.
The legal complications of Evo Morales
The Justice of Bolivia rejected the appeal presented by the former president’s defense Evo Morales and ratified his arrest request. His capture had been requested by a prosecutor, but now it was a resolution signed by the judge Alberto Rocabado the one that Order your apprehension for a case of aggravated trafficking of people and stupro with a minor.
As indicated by the judicial resolution signed and issued on January 27, “The First Criminal Chamber of the Departmental Court of Justice of Tarija declares inadmissible the appeal of incidental appeal filed by Juan Evo Morales Ayma’s private lawyer.”
After the rejection of the appeal by the Court, now Judge Alberto Rocabado ratified the arrest warrant against the Bolivian ex -president. He is investigated for aggravated trafficking of people, in which he is accused of having maintained a relationship with a minor with whom he would have had a child In 2016 in Tarija, while occupying the presidency of the Andean country.
In turn, in the judicial resolution it was declared The rebellion against Morales for not appearing to two precautionary hearings before the judge.
“The contested resolution being a declaration of rebellion is not susceptible to further appeal. This is because the rebellion is considered a direct consequence of the procedural attitude of the accused, who does not appear to the judicial appointment without a valid justification”points the failure.
Now, from the government of Luis Arce They ask the former president to give himself to justice, in even the Interior Minister Eduardo del Castillo He affirmed that the police already have a “Order of Operations” And they expect the defendant to leave the town of Chapare, His political and union bastion, where he has been located since November 2024, protected by hundreds of coca growers and militant peasants.
For his part, the former president declared himself as “pursued” by the Executive, which would have as an end, according to Morales himself, to avoid being enabled as a presidential candidate for the general elections of August 17.
Source: Ambito
