2023-10-04 21:22:55
Former Bolivian president Evo Morales (EFE/Jorge Abrego)
The different commissions that debate in the national congress of the government Movement towards Socialism (MAS) ratified this Wednesday the presidential candidacy of former president Evo Morales (2006-2019) for the 2025 elections in Bolivia. Furthermore, the president, Luis Arce, was expelled from the party, in the middle of the dispute with his former ally and now his adversary.
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On the second day of the MAS meeting, which is rejected by Arce, and the main social, indigenous and union organizations because they consider that it does not properly represent them, the Political, Economic, Organic and Inspection commissions presented their resolutions.
“Resolves to declare our brother commander Evo Morales Ayma, candidate of the Bicentennial 2025-2030, as the sole candidate of the MAS-IPSP,” the Politics commission stated in its resolution, a determination that was replicated by the other committees.
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Likewise, they ratified Evo Morales as the main leader of the Movement towards Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the People (MAS-IPSP).
On the other hand, this Wednesday he determined the “self-expulsion” of the president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, and his vice president, David Choquehuanca, for not attending the national congress of the ruling party.
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“The self-expulsion of Luis Arce Catacora and David Choquehuanca for not attending the MAS-IPSP congress is acknowledged,” read one of the members of the party’s Organic Commission.
The Political Commission also determined that no alliance can be made with other political parties ahead of the 2025 elections.
During the reading of the determinations of each of the commissions, the attendees chanted “Evo, Evo” and “always loyal, never traitors.”
Regarding the complaints once morest several MAS officials and militants for transfuge and treason, these were sent to the Disciplinary and Ethics Court to determine the sanctions that will be applied, such as expulsion from the party.
The president of Bolivia, Luis Arce (EFE/STR)
The congress, which takes place in the town of Lauca Ñ, in the Tropic of Cochabamba, Morales’s political and union bastion, opened another front of division in the ruling party between “evistas”, loyal to the former president, and “arcistas”, close to Arce.
This Monday at the opening of the event, Morales defended during his speech that the MAS is a “movement” that was born from “discriminated” social sectors destined “for extermination,” such as the indigenous people.
He questioned how many elections traditional left-wing parties “without indigenous people” have won in Bolivia and considered that the “attacks” on the official congress were not due to “fear of Evo Morales” but rather due to “fear of the indigenous movement.”
“Unfortunately, some internal and external groups do not accept that the indigenous movement leads this revolution, that is our crime,” he added.
Evo Morales intervenes on Tuesday at the congress of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) in Lauca Ñ (EFE/Jorge Abrego)
While in a meeting in La Paz, which took place at the same time that the MAS congress was inaugurated, Arce said that it was “an attack on social organizations that are actually being stripped of their own political instrument, there is “a disrespect for social organizations, that foundational character is not taken into account.”
Arce and Morales are estranged amid the internal tensions in the ruling party that began at the end of 2021 due to the former president’s requests to change some ministers that the president has ignored.
Likewise, this MAS congress held in Lauca Ñ announced the “self-expulsion” of Luis Arce and the country’s vice president, David Choquehuanca “for not attending” the meeting. Along with them, the MAS also ordered the expulsion of “several members of the ruling party in the Legislative Assembly” among departmental assembly members and other militants.
For his part, Morales regretted on his social networks the decision of “some brothers”, in reference to Arce and Choquehuanca, not to attend the MAS congress. According to the former president, with this decision the absentees “exclude themselves.”
(With information from EFE)
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