Former president of Bolivia Evo Morales considered this Sunday that he is still qualified to be a presidential candidate in the 2025 elections despite the ruling of the Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP) which established that the president and vice president can be elected and remain in office only for two terms, continuous or discontinuous.
Morales declared on his Sunday program on Kawsachun Coca radio that he will still be able to present himself as a presidential candidate in the 2025 elections in Bolivia, since the TCP resolution responded to a “protection of freedom of expression and not of the qualification or disqualification” of former presidents. .
“Evo is still enabled, that’s my interpretationneither the state political commission nor the advisory opinion establishes any limits on discontinuous reelection,” Morales said.
He added that in the democratic history of Bolivia “there have never been limitations on discontinuous re-election” and underlined that the TCP resolution concerns “freedom of expression” and that it talks about re-election in the “consideration part” of the resolution and not in the the “resolute”.
“Evo is still qualified as a presidential candidate, they will try, what else will they do, we have to be careful, but it is intentional and it will create confusion and susceptibility,” the former president said.
The constitutional ruling establishes that in Bolivia the president and the vice president They can only be elected and hold office for two terms.both continuous and discontinuous and that indefinite re-election does not exist and is not a human right.
The TCP availed itself of a 2021 resolution of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, in which that court refuted Evo Morales’ thesis and established that Indefinite presidential re-election is not a human right.
Faced with this situation, the Movement towards Socialism (MAS) declared itself on alert in the face of the “assault” against Morales and the indigenous and peasant movement, for which “if they touch Evo, they touch everyone”.
Morales stressed that there is a “black plan” against him and indicated that he is a “victim of the government” and of imperialism and the Bolivian right that aim at the “extermination of the indigenous movement”.
The former president He ruled Bolivia for three consecutive periods and this year he confirmed his candidacy in the 2025 presidential elections.
Several opponents have reacted favorably to the TCP’s determination, such as former transition president Jeanine Áñez (2019-2020), who is in prison due to the political and social crisis of 2019 and who wrote on her social networks that the TCP ” puts an end to the Morales’ illusion of being re-elected forever.
The Movement to Socialism (MAS) is divided into two camps, some supporting Morales and others followers of the president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, due to tensions within the ruling party that began at the end of 2021 due to the demands of the former sovereign changed some ministers, which the president did not do. EFE
Source: Clarin
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