The government party of Bolivia, the MOVEMENT TO SOCIALISM (MAS)announced Friday that his presidency candidate in the next August general elections It will be the current Minister of Government (Interior), Eduardo del Castillo.
In an impromptu statement to the media in La Paz, the president of the MAS, Grover García, presented Del Castillo and the peasant leader Milan Berna as the candidates for the presidency and vice presidency, respectively, elected by the social organizations and unions that are the basis of the official party.
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“We have our brother Eduardo del Castillo here and we have Milan Berna, the unique candidates who will strongly deepen democracy.”Garcia said.
He FURTHER initially planned that the Bolivian president, Luis Arcewill aspire to re -election, but the current president resigned on Tuesday to this intention, with a call to the “unit” from the left.
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After the decline of Arce, the official party held meetings in the last three days, amid orders from some official sectors so that the president seeks re -election.
However, this Friday, Garcia expressed his confidence that “Victory will be sure” For the MAS with the chosen binomial.
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In turn, Del Castillo thanked Arce for having trusted him at the time the conduct of the Ministry of Government, “One of the highest responsibilities in the country”.
“We have shown that youth is prepared to assume any position in our country”said the minister, who will turn 37 next December.
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Del Castillo emphasized that “The Bolivian people are asking for order”something indispensable, in his opinion, to also solve the current economic problems.
Who is the candidate?
Lawyer by profession, Eduardo del Castillo He has been part of Arce’s government since the president assumed the presidency in November 2020.
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Before the social and political crisis of 2019, the new presidential candidate served as senior officer and, as a militant of the youth of the MAS, actively participated in the protests against the interim government of Jeanine Áñez and in defense of the former president Evo Morales (2006-2019).
Already as a minister, Del Castillo poleminated several times and for different reasons with Morales and his permanence as a minister was precisely one of the reasons why the former leader of the Bolivian ruling moved from the Arce government.
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The most fragmented by the fight between Morales and Arce for the control of the party, the way of administering the government and the official candidacy for the elections of August 17.
Evo Moralesthat Bolivia ruled in three periods, insists on being a candidate despite the fact that the Constitutional Court reiterated on Wednesday that the presidential re -election is once continuously and without the possibility of a third mandate.
To this was added the decision of the president of the Senate, the official Andrónico Rodríguez, who was very close to Morales, to apply on his own in the elections.
