Deputy Rolando Cuéllar (MAS) went into a tailspin against the head of his party, Evo Morales. He said that the former president “has no political or moral authority” to request or channel the demand of the coca producers of the Chapare to remove the Minister of GovernmentEduardo Del Castillo, from the Cabinet of the Head of State, Luis Arce.
“Evo Morales does not have powers to be suggesting which ministers he likes or not; he does not have the political authority or the moral authority to be demanding dismissals,” said Cuéllar, one of the ruling party legislators. who belongs to the renewal wing of the MAS that questions the former president for having left the country during the political crisis of 2019.
Leaders of sectors affiliated with the Six Federations of the Tropics of Cochabamba demanded Del Castillo’s dismissal over the weekend and threatened to block roads until President Arce finishes by dismissing him. Evo Morales, In his Sunday radio program, he said that he will seek a meeting between the “general staff of the Cochabamba tropics” and Maple.
“If a blockade is warranted, we will all do it in unity, comrades, to remove that minister who harms the Bolivian population, not only to the Cochabamba tropics”, said the leader Francisco Córdoba in the expanded one on Saturday in which Evo Morale participateds.
“We listened to colleagues who are very well informed and raised their requests. One, for example, is why the Minister of Government has support from the right and is in the different written media. So the question is what is going on then? I just want to say that, in my term as president, I said that the minister questioned and censored by the right is the best minister”, Morales said Sunday in his Sunday program that is broadcast through Kawsachun Coca.
Del Castillo was questioned on May 31 in the Legislative on citizen security in El Alto. His report was validated, but the MAS could not get two thirds of it to be able to censor him and if that had been the result, Arce should have removed him. The opponents assured that they voted blank and warned of the existence of division in the caucus.
Cuellar stated that Evo is a “confrontational” person at this moment in the country” and assured that “it should let President Luis Arce govern.” “When he was president for 14 years, social organizations asked him for change of the cabinet and Mr. Evo Morales never paid any attention to them”.
“Mr. Evo Morales does not have the morals to be wanting to convulse the country with a blockade; we strongly reject. Here, the national government, the president, Luis Arce, and David Choquehuanca are the ones who are going to decide when they are going to change a minister”, stressed the controversial deputy.
The MAS Ethics Committee announced Cuéllar’s expulsion from the party a month ago, but the legislaturer was proposed as vice president of the Santa Cruz parliamentary brigade in the failed election this Monday. The legislator ensures that he is an authority elected by vote.
Regarding Morales’ warnings, the minister of the presidency, María Nela Prada, indicated that the president is always open to listen to the positions of the social organizations that are part of the government. Of course, he did not set a date for that meeting.
The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Freddy Mamani, encouraged a “high-level” meeting to discuss “the suggestion” by Evo Morales regarding Minister Del Castillo. In this case, he assured that “the meetings of the Government with the social organizations are permanent”.
“There is a suggestion; it is not a decision made. Of course, the final decision (on the permanence of Minister Del Castillo) is made by our brother president, if it will change or not. No one can interfere.”assured the authority of the Legislature.
Morales and legislators from Chapare such as Senator Leonardo Loza (MAS) athey assured that the party is totally united and that the versions about a possible division are encouraged by “right-wing” parties and by the media.
