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For 12 years at the command of Bolivia, Evo Morales has set the record for the country's longest president and admits that his biggest problem is to be an addict. Supported by the Constitutional Court and also by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, he obtained the right to run for a fourth consecutive term next year, unlike the 2016 referendum in which Bolivians rejected the re-election bill. Of the president.
To stay at the head of the state, Morales uses an indefinite reelection, a procedure identical to that already used in Venezuela by Hugo Chávez and in Nicaragua by Daniel Ortega. His critics denounce the authoritarian nature of the government and the legal maneuvers that help it retain its position.
"It's the same pattern.Morals changed the power structure and concentrated on itself.Control the executive, the legislature, the judiciary, the police and the armed forces," said the director of the Inter-American Institute for Democracy, Carlos Sánchez Berzaín.
The Constitutional Court relies on the American Convention on Human Rights to suspend restrictions on re-election and give the president the right to stand for re-election, while not complying with the popular referendum .
Bolivians from different cities go to La Paz on Wednesday (5) to go to La Paz. new candidacy of Evo Morales to the presidency – Photo: Aizar Raldes / AFP
The op position denounces as a coup d'etat the intention of Morales to seek another term. Protesters demonstrate in the streets, block roads and borders and encourage a general strike with greater membership in opposition-led departments. Thus, the dangerous scenario for clashes already recurring in Bolivia is defined.
Nominations will always be confirmed at the party primaries scheduled for January 27th. In his favor, the president has an annual growth of 4.9%, according to data from the World Bank. The poverty rate, however, remains around 37%.
The latest opinion poll done by the Institute Markets and Samples Institute shows former President Carlos Mesa of the Center-Left Alliance Citizen Community, five points ahead of the president, in the running for the Movement for Socialism (MAS). .
But the biggest obstacle to Morales's opposition remains his fragmentation: he is pulverized between two former presidents, a former vice president, five indigenous peoples and two women. The president uses this division and the state apparatus to fuel his potential vice.
Sandra Cohen – Photo: Art / G1
