The senator Leonardo Loza, one of the closest to former President Evo Morales, He assured that Andronón Rodríguez will not join as a candidate for the vice presidency in the duo with Luis Arce, the current head of state who has not ruled out his intention to apply again.
“There are people, I do not know how they speak, they propose, they propose, make binomials, which do not correspond. ANDStoy very sure that Andrónico Rodríguez is not going to lend himself, he will not be a duo with Lucho.
Besides, Lucho, even though it is brought to Batman, to the spider man, he will not win the general elections In this country, ”said the legislator on the electoral proposals of arcism.
Arce’s government has received strong criticisms by the economic indicators that are marked by a parallel price of the dollar that has been devalued almost 80% during the last two years, as well as the shortage of that currency and the irregular provision of fuels in the domestic market.
Representatives and base leaders of the Socialism Movement (MAS) who are loyal to Luis Arce are preparing to modify the Statute of the party and choose the candidates that will tertiary in the general elections of August.
“For (candidate A) President, many social organizations are considering that our brother President Luis Arce Catacora goes,” said Vidal Gómez, spokesman for the Unit of the Arcista faction of the MAS, who is part of the intercultural.
“If we want unity and if we want to guarantee the national elections towards the Bicentennial, you have to accompany the Andronico. And that is unity, ”said Gomez, although he admitted that” many colleagues do not like “that idea for the internal fracture of the party
The proposal was backed by several legislators such as Senator Sandro Ramírez And it is an issue that is already torn and will reach the Congress of the MAS, whose acronym was under the control of loyal organizations to Arce. The event was summoned for March 21 and 22 at El Alto.
“We are working day and night for this binomial because we have to achieve success,” the president of the Paz regional of the most arcist in La Paz, Nelly Ramos, told the media, after supporting the option.
These opinions hit the Evista faction of the MAS. Loza said Andronón “knows that Arce is the worst president of history.” “I think that managing the name of the Andronic Brother is only to appear in the media or just for trying to make us fight or divide us,” he said.
In addition, Loza said: “Evo is never jealous of anyone. Andronic brother knows how Evo Morales took care of us, Actually both, one more, one less, but I feel that he protected us, took care of us, recommended us, reflected, in many cases, not only to him, but also many other leaders, with tears. Of that (Andronón) is very conscious. ”
Later, the Bolivian tycoon Marcelo Claure said he met with Andronón. He pointed out that Rodríguez represents a “hope of renewal within the MAS” And he highlighted his profile as a “democratic left leader,” distanced from more radical positions.
“I have had a long conversation with Andrónico Rodríguez and, in my humble opinion, it is the only hope of renewal within the MAS. He left me a very good impression, ”Claure said on his social networks.
Evo’s electoral option
The social organizations loyal to Evo confirmed that this will be presented in the August elections with a new political party, after losing the leadership of the MAS and indicated that at the end of March the “relaunch” will be made of a new political option.
The peasant leader Pedro Llanque explained at a press conference that the Morales related sectors will meet at a congress on March 29, 30 and 31, in the Central Department of Cochabamba, to “make known the re -foundation of the political instrument”.
This after Morales lost the leadership of almost three decades of the government, who led him to the presidency, for a constitutional ruling that ordered the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) to recognize as the new president of the party the leader Grover García, who is close to the Arce government.