Evo Morales to visit Argentina on March 8

The former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales Ayma, will come back to Argentina afterwards 8 March. This will be the first visit to the country after the return to power of his party, the Movement for Socialism (MAS). after winning by the hand of Luis Arce in the presidential elections, with 55% of the votes.

The Bolivian leader will visit this Tuesday at 2:30 p.m., in one flight to Buenos Aires.

The last time Evo Morales was on Argentine soil was the November 9, when he dismissed him from President Alberto Fernández and accompanied him to the border of the Horacio Guzmán International Bridge, which links the two countries and which links the Bolivian city of Villazón. It was after staying in Argentina during 11 months in exile with the former vice-president, Alvaro Garcia Linera, following the institutional collapse which ejected him from power.

For the efforts led by Alberto Fernández, Evo Morales Yes García Linera was able to emigrate safely from Bolivia, while political violence escalated as a result of the crisis unleashed between MAS supporters and the opposing political forces that occupied the interim presidency of Bolivia led by Jeanine Añez.

The Argentine president’s political decision to help Evo Morales motivated three MAS deputies to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize. “Our democracy owes you a lot”, They indicated during the presentation of the candidacy.

Evo Morales’ visit to Argentina takes place in a special context. Four months after the resumption of power from MAS, some 7.1 million registered Bolivian citizens will again participate in the elections. This time, the elections will concern the nine departments (provinces) and the mayors of the 336 communes of the country, among other positions, in elections marked by the confrontation between the ruling party and the opposition and the rules to prevent the pandemic from spreading. coronavirus moving forward.

According to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), political organizations participating in local elections registered 20,000 candidates for some 5,000 public positions.

So far, Morales, in his role as MAS chairman and campaign manager, has set the bar very high. He hopes that the ruling party win the majority of departmental governments and “more than 300 municipalities“.

However, the numbers predicted by the intention to vote polls, in which Morales does not believe, are less generous, although the MAS will almost certainly have more governors than the opposition parties and a large majority of municipalities. One possible scenario is that Luis Arce rules with several governors and many municipalities aligned with the ruling party, but with opponents at the head of the main departments and municipalities, a scenario which is certainly not new for the MAS.

In Bolivia, the wounds are still open. The consequences of the coup and the accusations of human rights violations during interim Jeanine Áñez mark the political climate, where the antagonism between the ruling party and the opposition remains open.

Meanwhile, the MAS has progressed in recent months and regained ground. In February, he won votes in the Bolivian Legislative Assembly to approve the presidential decree granting amnesty and insult “for humanitarian reasons” to more than a thousand people “persecuted” by the de facto government led by Jeanine Áñez, including former president Evo Morales.

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