The ex -president participated in a concentration in the population of Entre Ríos, in the tropics area of the Central Region of Cochabamba.
The former president of Bolivia Evo Morales (2006-2019) He was proclaimed this Saturday as a presidential candidate For the elections planned for August 17, although he still does not announce the new political party with which he will apply.
The ex -president participated in a concentration in the population of Entre Ríos, in the tropics area of the Central Region of Cochabamba, the main trade union and political bastion of Morales, where hundreds of its supporters arrived.
“We are convinced that we are going to win the elections this year, so they are so afraid, so much anger, so many defamations (…) United we are invincible, mobilized, unattainable, “said the former governor.
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The ex -president was already proclaimed as a candidate for the presidency of the Andean country on March 31, after a National Congress in which his political group ‘Evo Pueblo’ was created, after losing the leadership of the official Movement to Socialism (more) and having renounced his militancy.
Morales said today that his followers not only support him, but “defend the cultural democratic revolution” to tell Bolivia and the world that “the right will not return.”
The former president does not yet announce with which political party he will register To postulate in the elections, but he told their related ones that “don’t worry.”
“For security reasons I don’t want to tell you about the acronym, but the acronym is guaranteed to participate in these elections,” he said.
The concentration of the hundreds of Morales followers was carried out in Entre Ríos, one of the populations of cocalero origin whose federation Mamoré Bulo Bulo leads the current president of the Senate, Andrónico Rodríguez, close to Morales, but who was absent in the spot.
Several analysts and politicians consider Rodríguez a virtual presidential candidate And, although he ruled out that possibility, there are sectors that proclaimed him while Morales’s followers launched strong criticism reiterating that his leader is “the only” candidate in his sector.
The Prosecutor’s Office of Bolivia investigates the ex -president for aggravated trafficking of people, in which he is accused of having had a relationship with a minor with whom he would have had a child in 2016 in the southern region of Tarija, when he exercised the presidency.
In October, the arrest warrant against Morales was issued; however, The police do not execute it to date.
Meanwhile, the Bolivian ex -president has not left the tropics of Cochabamba since November last year, dozens of followers have permanent vigils to prevent their apprehension.
The Bolivian ruling began to divide after the 2019 political crisis that caused Morales’s resignation to the presidency and his exile to Mexico and Argentina.
After Morales lost the leadership of the MAS; The official party was in the hands of the leader Grover García, related to President Luis Arce.
Arce and Morales began to distance themselves at the end of 2021 due to differences in the presidential candidacy of MAS and for government decisions.
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