The former president of Bolivia Evo Morales (2006-2019) considered this Sunday that he is still qualified to be a presidential candidate in the 2025 elections despite the ruling of the Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP) which established that the president and vice president can only be elected and serve for two terms, whether continuous or discontinuous.
Morales stated in his Sunday program on Kawsachun Coca radio that he can still present himself as a presidential candidate in the 2025 elections in Boliviasince the resolution of the TCP responded with “protection for freedom of expression and not for authorization or disqualification” of the former president.
“Evo is still authorized, that is my interpretation, neither the State political commission nor the advisory opinion establishes any limitation for discontinuous re-election”Morales noted.
He added that in the democratic history of Bolivia “There have never been limitations for discontinuous re-election” and stressed that the TCP resolution is about “freedom of expression” and that speaks of re-election in the “considerative part” of the resolution and not so in the “decisive”.
“Evo is still qualified as a presidential candidate, they will try, what else will they do, we must be attentive, but it is intentional and will create confusion and susceptibility“said the former president.
The constitutional ruling establishes that in Bolivia the president and vice president can only be elected and serve for two terms, whether continuous or discontinuous, and that indefinite reelection does not exist and is not a human right.
The TCP accepted a resolution of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of 2021, in which said court refuted the argument of Evo Morales and established that indefinite presidential reelection is not a human right.
Given this situation, the Movement to Socialism (MAS) declared itself on alert in the face of “onset” against Morales and the indigenous and peasant movement, so “If they touch Evo, they touch everyone”.
Morales pointed out that there is a “black plan” against him and indicated that he was “government victim” and imperialism and the Bolivian right that seek the “extermination of the indigenous movement”.
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The former president governed Bolivia for three consecutive terms and this year confirmed his candidacy for the 2025 presidential elections.
Several opponents reacted favorably to the determination of the TCP as the former transitional president Jeanine Anez (2019-2020), who is in prison due to the political and social crisis of 2019 and who wrote on his social networks that the TCP “puts an end to Morales’ delirium of being re-elected forever”.
He Movement to Socialism (MAS) is divided into two sides, some who support Morales and others who support the president of Bolivia, Luis Arcedue to internal tensions in the ruling party that began at the end of 2021 due to the former governor’s requests to change some ministers, something that the president did not do.
