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Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous president who led the country for more than 13 years, is seeking to regain power with a fifth presidential candidacy and thus fulfill
Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous president who led the country for more than 13 years, is seeking to regain power with a fifth presidential candidacy and thus fulfill his desire to extend his “process of change” until 2025, i.e. year of the 200th anniversary of the country’s Independence.
Morales was born in an Andean community into a humble peasant family. Aymara and he had just finished high school, but in the “school of life” in his youth he learned a profession from llama herder to baker, mason and trumpeter.
He then moved to Chapare, a coca-growing area in the department of Cochabamba, where he became a trade union leader, which led him to presidency in 2006 becoming Bolivia’s longest-serving president.
During his nearly 14 years in power, Morales has always boasted economic stability country and that Bolivia has recorded one of the highest and most sustained growth rates in the Americas, at over 4% for several years.
Evo Morales became President of Bolivia in 2005 with 54% of the vote, in 2009 new Constitution in which Bolivia became a multinational state, and in the same year the then president secured a second term by winning the election with over 60% of the vote.
In 2013, the Constitutional Court, in a controversial decision, upheld Evo Morales candidacy in the 2014 elections, despite the fact that the constitution he himself proclaimed allows only two consecutive terms, claiming that the state was “refounded” for the first re-election of the then president.
Political fatigue and disillusionment among many with Morales’ leadership intensified following a referendum on February 21, 2016, in which 51.3% of Bolivians rejected the indigenous leader’s refusal to participate in the elections. Constitution be able to stand in the 2019 elections.
However, after a lengthy legal dispute, in 2017 the Supreme Electoral Court authorized Morales’ fourth nomination after the ruling party Movement towards socialism (MAS) will argue that the right of the President to be elected and the right of the people to elect him must be respected, as established by the American Convention on Human Rights.
Fear that Morales will remain in power penetrated parts of Bolivian society after the elections of October 20, 2019, in which “irregularities” were recorded, causing a violent wave of protests throughout the country and complaints about election fraud in favor of the then president.
“Thank you very much for joining us,” Morales said on November 10, 2019, in a speech announcing his resignation as president after “thirteen years, nine months and 18 days” in office, which he assumed on January 22, 2006. . .
On the night of November 11. 2019 Morales left Bolivia and he spent a month in Mexico before settling in Argentina, from where he planned and directed the return of the MAS to power with the candidacy of his former Minister of Economy, Luis Arce.
In the 2020 elections, Morales sought to become a senator from the Cochabamba region, where he began his political career as a deputy in 1997, but his candidacy was rejected due to failure to meet the country’s permanent residence requirement.
Morales, as the leader of the ruling party, has always tried to influence the decisions of the state; he is even one of the main critics of Arce’s leadership.
Since the end of 2022, the split within the MAS between the “Evistas” with a radical line and the “Arcistas” or renovators associated with the President, as they identified themselves, has deepened and led to each group separately proclaiming Arce or Morales. as candidates for 2025 elections.
“They convinced me that I would be a candidate, they forced me, of course, people want, but they force me, both against Evo and against the right, against the government, against the empire,” Morales himself confirmed today.
Constitution of Bolivia sets a “one-time” limit on re-election but does not specify whether the former president is eligible to run again after a period in office, so the Constitutional Court must rule on the validity of Morales’ fifth bid.
And on August 31, President Luis Arce said that at the moment “his possible candidacy is not on the agenda.”
EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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