Only three presidential candidates were present in the second debate organized by the Supreme Electoral Court. Eduardo del Castillo, Pavel Aracena and Rodrigo Paz Pereira took the opportunity to speak to the voters. Andrónico Rodríguez did not arrive, as he had advanced hours earlier through a letter signed by the delegate of Popular Alliance. The other four applicants to the Presidency chose to participate in other activities before going to the debate.
“Swe are not in the best situation And worse, when five candidates on the right are not encouraged to discuss their proposals, when you have to talk about economic issues, ”admitted the official candidate, Eduardo del Castillo who was raffled as the first to make use of the floor.
The second panelist was the DNA candidate, Pavel Aracena, who launched his criticisms of the absent and said they will present what he called as the plan to prepare the arrival of investments.
“ANDn democracy we should be debating all, but, well There are people who work only with political calculationwe know what we have to do and we will do it, with a lot of responsibility, our entire government plan is serious, ”he said in his first words.
The PDC candidate, Rodrigo Paz Pereira, son of the former president, Jaime Paz Zamora (President 1989-1993) closed, closed, who regained surveys in the last monthcooperated by its candidate for vice president, Edman Lara, who drags the vote of the youngest, because they consider it new in the political scene.
“In the end, it is the population that allows you to be here, In addition, those who have asked for this debate are not, And that it was in danger of being carried out, therefore to the all -support Supreme Court, to carry a democratic process according to what corresponds, ”he said.
Popular Alliance, on behalf of Andrónico Rodríguez sent a letter to the TSE announcing his absence to the debate. The candidates Samuel Doria Medina, Jorge Tuto Quiroga and Manfred Reyes Villa scheduled campaign closure acts. Jhonny Fernández, who was on Tuesday afternoon at El Alto for his campaign closure, chose to go to an interview in a television channel before going to the presidential debate.
