Faced with rejection of the opposition, the controversial primary elections promoted by Evo Morales are developing in Bolivia.

Bolivians vote this Sunday controversial primary elections choose the presidential candidates for the October elections, at a poll without competition in which only one candidate is registered per party.

With the primaries, "the democratization of parties or political movements in Bolivia begins," said the president. Evo Morales to pay at a school in Villa Tunari, in the central region of Cochabamba, but his critics say differently.

According to the opposition, the ruling party encouraged the primaries to use for the fourth time in a row Morales' controversial candidacy (2000-2025). The constitutional court validated its application in 2017, although this option was rejected by referendum in 2016.

More than 1.7 million members of political parties can vote in these primaries. While the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) of Morales encouraged the vote, Major opponents will not and have called on their fellow believers not to go to the polls this Sunday.

Nine parties or alliances participate in the primaries, in which each formation has only one "binomial" composed of its candidates for the presidency and the vice-presidency.

The official duo is composed of Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia, and his vice-president Álvaro García, in power since 2006, who wish to be reelected.

The other pairs are led by former Presidents Carlos Mesa (citizen of the community) and Jaime Paz Zamora (Christian Democratic Party), former Vice President Víctor Hugo Cárdenas (Civic Solidarity Unit) and Senator Oscar Ortiz ( Bolivia says no).

Four other minority parties closed the list of participants in these internal elections, which are a mandatory step to participate in the October elections, in which the congress will also be completely renewed.

"These primaries are pure formalism, because in each party, there are already elected candidates," said the badyst and university professor at AFP. Carlos Cordero

"These are elections, therefore, atypical, but they will serve to a show of strength of President Evo Morales and his party," which boasts to have close to a million militants, did it? he declares.

The completion of the primaries, at a cost of about four million dollars, is the result of a new law on political parties promoted by MAS and approved in October.

The opposition insists that it is a useless expensebecause the primaries only serve to legitimize Morales' candidacy.

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