The ex -president must present a new party that must be approved by the Bolivian Electoral Court before the elections of August 17.
He Supreme Electoral Court of Bolivia defined that Evo Morales can be a candidate for president in the next elections. His followers continue with a caravan by land towards peacein the midst of police repression warnings. For his part, the current Bolivian president, Luis Arce already anticipated that he will not appear at the presidential elections of August 17: “I will not be a popular vote division factor.”
Óscar Hastenufelhead of the Bolivian Electoral Court, explained that the May 19 (inclusive) so that Evo Morales Present a new legally constituted political party and a series of documentation that will be reviewed to guarantee their new candidacy. On the other hand, a recent Constitutional Judgment in Bolivia prohibits exercising the presidency or vice presidency more than twice, Regardless of whether the mandates were consecutive, so every decision will have to cross a new period of judicial interpretation.
In recent months, Evo Morales was held in his home amid judicial investigations against him. There began one hunger strike and began to organize a movement of supporters in support of his figure, which guarded his house – first – and began to mobilize on foot – then – towards the city of La Pazobjective that has not yet been achieved. It was then that the possibility of a new nomination of whom he was a Bolivian president between 2006 and 2019 was consolidated.
Evo Morales Police Bolivia.jfif
Tension between the followers of Evo Morales and the Police of Bolivia
Amid the judicial provisions, the tension between Bolivia police and Evo Morales followers, that mobilize towards the Ciudad de la Paz in caravans by land to register the candidacy of the ex -president for the next presidential elections. Given this, the Minister of Government Eduardo del Castillo He reiterated that, if he appeared in the Bolivian capital, Morales will be stopped.
“All you are doing is to convulse the government headquarters”said the official, who reported that a dozen supporters of the former president “in flagrance” were arrested because they carried “police canes” and “war material.”
Evo Morales denounced that situation in his social networks: “With arrogance, superb and illegality, the government arrested more than 20 colleagues in our peaceful caravan“In turn, he asked the Electoral Court” to do not outline us in our democratic rights. “
In addition, he warned that “The Government Police not only trampled the constitutional rights of presumption of innocence and due process but also stole moneyobjects of personal use and small drums with reserve gasoline that, some colleagues, carried in their vehicles, given the lack of that fuel on the routes. “
Finally, he asked “to investigate the constants violations of the right to protest and human rights committed by the governmentcriminalizing, defamed and threatening the people with police and military forces. “
Source: Ambito
