December 18, 2024, 4:00 AM
December 18, 2024, 4:00 AM
The alliance between the Citizen Community (CC) and the Left Revolutionary Front (FRI), It is still valid in Parliament and will end in 2025 at the end of this legislative period, said the head of the Deputies bench, Enrique Urquidi.
In recent days it was learned that the leadership of the FRI signed a pact with former president Jorge Tuto Quiroga and formed the Libre allianceto participate in the 2025 general elections. However, that political force has an agreement with former president Carlos Mesa and the Comunidad Ciudadana alliance.
“We hope that the FRI complies with the agreement signed in the TSE which establishes a death date in 2025,” the legislator told EL DEBER.
Yesterday, Quiroga and the FRI publicly ratified the political agreement with the an event in which opposition politicians such as the former governors of Santa Cruz, Rubén Costas, and of Beni, Ernesto Suárez, both leaders of Democrats, also participated.
While Quiroga’s electoral career begins with the political support of the FRI, from the Legislature, deputy Urquidi said that the alliance with CC is not diluted, and despite the dissent of many parliamentarians, The opposition bench has about 70 parliamentarians, including members and substitutes.
“We are going to continue working in the Legislative Assembly
Senate and Deputies, was made up of one hundred assembly members between starters and substitutes.
Marcelo Pedrazas, one of the deputies who came to Parliament with CC but who distanced himself from his party and became a critic of the opposition alliance and Carlos Mesa, said that the new FRI’s pact with Tuto Quiroga, puts the “death certificate” on the alliance with Mesa, who, according to Pedrazas, must explain to the country the failure of this alliance.
“Also These scenarios show us several actors who are looking for the presidential seat for 2025,” said the Chuquisaqueño deputy.
However, Urquidi assured that Citizen Community, with the leadership of Carlos Mesa, continues to be effective in Bolivian politics,
“We as the Citizen Community with the leadership of Carlos Mesa, are committed to the country, and we said it: the Citizen Community was going to play a fundamental and leading role in the 2025 electoral process in the line of seeking unity and Carlos Mesa has come working for a long time and
