2023-12-31 01:29:20
The Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP) of Bolivia annulled the indefinite presidential reelection in the Andean country, which means the disqualification of Evo Morales for the 2025 elections.
In Constitutional Ruling 1010/2023, approved this Friday, December 29, they point out that indefinite presidential reelection does not exist and “is not a human right.”
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Thus, it establishes that the president and vice president of Bolivia cannot exercise a mandate more than twice, continuously or discontinuously, like senators, deputies or judicial authorities.
This makes it impossible for Evo Morales to run in the 2025 presidential elections, as was his intention.
The politician, leader of the Movement towards Socialism (MAS) party, governed for three continuous periods between 2006 and 2019.
The ruling was made in application of an advisory opinion of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights that in 2019 and annuls a ruling that the TCP itself issued in 2017.
A ruling and a referendum
The Political Constitution of the State of Bolivia establishes that no one can govern the country for more than two consecutive terms.
In February 2016, a referendum was held to approve or reject the constitutional modification project to reverse this and allow both the president and vice president to govern for more terms.
The “No” won with 51.30% of the votes.
Evo Morales was unaware of the result and in 2017, the Constitutional Court authorized him to run again because it considered that his human rights were violated.
Last September, Evo Morales announced that he wanted to run in the 2025 elections. With this new ruling, those aspirations are nullified.
Everything happens in the middle of a battle between Evo himself and the current president of the country, Luis Arce, who went from being his main pupil and ally to “worst enemy”, in the words of Morales.
The former president denounced on successive occasions that Arce intended to disqualify him for the next elections.
“End point to Evo’s delirium”
Evo Morales has not yet commented on this new sentence.
However, different opposition spokespersons applauded the TCP’s decision.
One of the first was former president Jeanine Añez, who said on the social network
“He set up the 2019 electoral fraud, violated the Constitution and the #21F Referendum to perpetuate himself. He must answer to justice for his crimes, instigation of violence and power vacuum,” he added.
Former president Jorge Quiroga also spoke out on the matter, emphasizing that “re-election is not a human right.”
“Evo: you had 3 mandates, you used 2, you owe us 1, no MORE, never MORE,” wrote Quiroga, alluding to Evo’s party, Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS).
Luis Fernando Camacho, governor of the state of Santa Cruz and currently in prison accused of his role in the fall of Morales in 2019, also spoke out through a letter distributed by his political group, Creo.
“With this TCP ruling, we Bolivians ensure that no apprentice tyrant will ever appear again who tramples on the vote, ignores a referendum, commits fraud, with the sole intention of perpetuating himself in power. “Democracy always triumphs, dictators are surpassed and judged by history.”
Although there have been no incidents so far, Evo Morales’ followers threatened strong responses in the street if the disqualification took place.
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