In the midst of his controversial candidacy, Evo Morales began the election campaign in Bolivia

Evo Morales The election campaign began Saturday ahead of the October national elections in Bolivia, before a large concentration of supporters at Chimore Airport, on the site of a US military base operated a few years ago .

The ruling movement towards socialism (MAS) presented the couple of Morales and the vice-president of the country, Alvaro García Linera, in the midst of a great party during which, outside the crowd, the flags and the songs alluding to this candidacy abounded.

"Evo presidente" or "more and more, more and more, Evo presidente" are some of the choruses of the songs, mostly interpreted to the rhythm of the Andean rhythms, at the same time as thousands of blue, black flags were flying and white, representing their political grouping.

In his speech, Morales said the audience was "more than a million concentrated siblings".

The President said that he had decided to present his candidacy to opt for the Government of the country for the next five years to finish the "big jobs" that started and because he feels "obliged" to consolidate what he saw as a liberation from Bolivia "for life".

The pillars of Morales' management have been pbaded through political reforms of inclusion, the nationalization of hydrocarbons and the projects of industrialization that he is now seeking to consolidate.

Morales pointed out that the headquarters of the concentration, at Chimore Airport, in the tropical region of Cochabamaba Department, was "the center of operation and domination" of the United States. before being a terminal, it was a "military base".

At the end of his speech, he finished with the speech "Homeland or death"an expression that characterizes the members of the Cuban Revolution and that the Head of State usually repeats in many of his acts.

Mbadive participation in the law has been questioned by several sectors of the opposition who have ensured that the ruling party would force state officials to go beyond the expectations of adoption.

Morales' speech preceded a brief religious ceremony organized by evangelical churches who prayed and blessed his candidacy.

"There is no other pair, there is no other candidate, the pair is unique," said in his speech the executive secretary of the Confederation of Workers Bolivia (COB), Juan Carlos Huarachi, who expressed his support for Morales and García Linera.

The beginning of the Morales election campaign took place the day after the OAS Secretary General's visit to Bolivia. Luis Almagro

The candidacy of Morales is considered illegal by the opposition and the citizens' movements in Bolivia. for having violated the constitutional limit of two consecutive terms and the result of the referendum which, in 2016, had rejected re-election.

Evo Morales is the president with more time in power in the history of Bolivia and aspires to a fourth consecutive term until 2025, at the commemoration of the bicentenary of the independence of the country.

The Constitutional Court has already authorized him for a third term, on the understanding that the former did not count as the country had been consolidated in 2009 from the Republic to the Plurinational State.