▲ The former president plans a march to La Paz to demand that his candidacy be registered.Photo Ap
From the Editorial
La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, November 11, 2024, p. 30
The former Bolivian president Evo Morales assured that the magistrates of the Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP) They modified the Political Constitution of the State to disqualify him from the elections and warned that he and his bases plan to carry out a march to La Paz to continue the pressure to demand that he be allowed to register his candidacy in 2025.
The accusation was made after that instance issued a ruling that reaffirms the impossibility of re-election – continuous or discontinuous – for any popularly elected position, which includes that of president and that prevents him from running again.
Yesterday (Saturday) we met in an emergency to see if I am disqualified or not, but it is interesting and they were totally wrong, because these two magistrates (Gonzalo Hurtado and René Espada) They modified the Constitution, which It is not your attributionMorales expressed on his radio program Kawsachun Coca.
According to the Bolivian media Brújula Digital, the former president stated that They have not been able to destroy me morally as we demonstrated last week by electoral atlas, they have not been able to defeat me morally, legally, or politically. They tried to kill me physically and they could not, later On Friday they say that Evo is disqualified.
Likewise, he reported that He was invited by the president of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal to a meeting. I am waiting for you to guarantee me security. If you guarantee me security, I will be in La Paz at 10 in the morning for this meeting..
The leaders of political organizations, authorities of the Executive and Legislative Branch are expected to attend to evaluate a ruling by the TCP with which it suspended judicial elections in five departments.
Despite the ruling, deputy Sandro Ramírez, close to Morales, declared that the judges cannot demonstrate that the Constitution does not express a possible discontinuous election.
We are still in emergency, we have only declared a quarter intermission (a pause), from Monday we will plan the application of the resolutions, including a march to La Paz. I ask for unity and strength from our bases and I assure you that we will win this battlehe told his followers, according to the Ap agency.
Morales was ratified as a candidate for the presidential elections by the wing of the Movement for Socialism loyal to the coca grower leader, while the other part of the party supports the re-election of President Luis Arce.