Government of Bolivia declares illegal maneuver for Evo Morales’ candidacy in 2025

Ap and Sputnik

La Jornada Newspaper
Thursday, November 21, 2024, p. 22

Peace. The Bolivian government declared illegal, arbitrary and unconstitutional the law promulgated this week by the acting president of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly (ALP), Andrónico Rodríguez, which ends the mandate of the controversial magistrates self-extended of the judicial body, which includes the Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP), and that ruled against the re-election of former President Evo Morales.

He argued that this is a maneuver by the evista wing of the ruling Movement towards Socialism (MAS) that seeks to enable Morales’ candidacy for the elections in 2025.

The so-called bill 075, at most, can become a draft, because they did not comply with the legislative procedureexplained the Minister of Justice, César Siles, at a press conference.

Rodríguez, president of the Senate, took advantage of his tenure as president of the ALP while the incumbent, vice president David Choquehuanca, is serving as president of the State after Luis Arce’s trip to Brazil, as established by constitutional succession, to promulgate the rule that was promoted by the opposition Citizen Community (CC) party.

The promulgated rule was approved in June by Rodríguez, also during a trip by Arce, but then the TCP declared it null not knowing that Rodríguez had the power to call the legislative session in which it was processed, a ruling that the Executive now invokes again.

When a law that restores the constitutional mandate is blocked by illegitimate officials who exercise their positions to defend the arbitrariness of a government, it is clear that the social pact no longer exists.the opposition leader and CC leader, Carlos Mesa, published in X.