Tension and president against Evo Morales in meeting with members of his party

Former Bolivian President Evo Morales suffered on Monday throw a chair during an event in Cochabamba to finalize preparations for his party, the Movement for Socialism (MAS), for the 2021 regional and local elections, although The former president accuses the “infiltrators” and not the dissident sectors of his formation.

The incident happened in the town of Lauca Ñ, located in one of the coca strongholds of Morales, which, after returning to Bolivia, assumed the presidency of the MAS. Cries of “renewal” or “exit” were heard among the participants against the former president and other leaders with whom he shared a table, according to the newspaper “Página Siete”.

The tension was on the rise and several chairs arrived on stage, one of which touches Morales himself, as evidenced by the images broadcast on social networks and collected by various media.

Before the incident, Morales with a message on Twitter accused the “right-wing press” of misrepresenting what happens in party meetings in which the “finger” or the supposed unilateral decision of the ex-president to define the candidates is mentioned.

Morales rejected these versions, arguing that the media reporting this “is not interested in the truth” and arguing that the MAS “has different ways of choosing candidates.”

This is not the first time the former president has been embroiled in similar tensions – last Friday he had to go into hiding to avoid attack in the Potosí department – but Morales has made an effort in recent days to avoid any recognition of division. internal.

“We denounce that the putschist right is trying to destroy the MAS-IPSP unit by sending infiltrators to generate violence,” he said on Twitter after the latest case. In this sense, he defended that the events organized throughout the country “aim at the democratic and public election” of the candidates.

Morales also accused of “distorting” the “right-wing press”: “if I’m in meetings where candidates are elected they say it’s” fuck “and if I’m not, they do it against Evo “. “They are not interested in the truth. The MAS-IPSP is the biggest party in our history and has different ways of electing candidates,” he said.

With agency information.

JPE