Thursday 11/21/2024 08:15 p.m. m.
Supporters of the former president of Bolivia Evo Morales (2006-2019) will meet on Friday to define the direction of this sector of the ruling party in view of the 2025 elections and before the Bolivia’s economic situation, resented by inflation, lack of dollars and fuel for which they blame the Government of Luis Arce.
The meeting is scheduled in Lauca Ñ, population of the Tropic of Cochabamba (center) which is the political and union bastion of Morales, where legislators from the ruling Movement towards Socialism (MAS) related to the former president, mayors, leaders and former leaders of the party will arrive to agree on actions against the Government.
The peasant leader Omar Ramírez told EFE this Thursday that the meeting will serve “to take a course towards the upcoming electoral contests after a constitutional ruling ratified the disqualification of the presidential candidacy of Morales and another that removed him from the leadership of the ruling MAS, after almost three decades.
However, Morales considers that he is qualified to be a candidate and remains a leader of the MAS because these sentences were carried out by the judges of the Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP), which he considers “illegal” given that their functions were extended by one year.
Ramírez said that in recent months “some political mistakes” were made, which is why he considered it necessary for the new “fight” scenario is established based on the suggestions that the social sectors propose on Friday.
The leader considered that a “serious mistake” was to “follow Arce’s game” during the recent 24-day road blockade by raising that protest in exchange for the dialogue that the Government offered, but which ultimately did not prosper.
Morales supporters blocked roads for 24 days to demand that the Executive withdraw the judicial proceedings for statutory rape and human trafficking against the former president, which they considered part of political persecution.
Given this, the Government denounced attempts at destabilization by Morales loyalists, and the Police unblocked the roads, capturing a hundred people in the process during clashes in which police officers and journalists were injured.
Likewise, Arce and several of his ministers have indicated that Morales is trying to shorten the president’s term in an attempt to return to power.
On the other hand, Ramírez said “we have to mobilize” due to the economic problems that Bolivia faces.
“In the face of so much oppression, in the face of so much devastation of the economy, In the face of so many acts of corruption, the Bolivian people are forced to mobilize,” he remarked.
This day hundreds of union members mobilized in La Paz to demand that the Government take effective measures against the increase in food and lack of dollars, protests that have been constant in several cities in Bolivia.
The differences between Arce and Morales, distanced since the end of 2021have worsened in recent weeks due to the internal struggles between both official leaders regarding government decisions, control of the MAS and the presidential candidacy of that party.
