2023-09-24 19:35:53
The former president regretted that Arce, who was his Minister of Economy during his Government, has not moved forward.
The former president of Bolivia Evo Morales confirmed this Sunday his candidacy for the 2025 presidential elections and pointed out that he was “forced” to make this decision so he is going to “battle”, amid the division within the ruling party, the Movement to Socialism (MAS).
“They have convinced me that I am going to be a candidate, they have forced me, of course people want to, but they are forcing me, both against Evo, the right, the Government, the empire,” said Morales (2006-2019) in his program on the local radio Kawsachun Coca.
The MAS leader also added that there is a “dirty” campaign against him, since the opposition calls him a “drug trafficker”, but the Government of President Luis Arce and Vice President David Choquehuanca point to him as the “king of cocaine.” , so these situations “forced” him to be a candidate and “battle.”
“We are not going to give up and we are going to be in this tough democratic battle, now to build proposals, I have a meeting with businessmen, I welcome the proposals coming, we must build the post-bicentennial agenda,” Morales said.
The former president regretted that Arce, who was his Minister of Economy during his Government, has not advanced “anything at all” of the agenda they carried out with 13 pillars towards the country’s bicentennial.
“We still have strength,” he said.
Once again, the former president denounced that the Arce Government has a plan to defenestrate him “with political processes” and that they even want to “eliminate” him physically, so he decided to accept what his militancy asks for.
“We are going to confront with truth, dignity and honesty all that aggression that we suffered on social networks from the Ministry of the Presidency,” he stressed in a subsequent message on X (formerly Twitter).
Morales’ announcement comes just a few days before the national congress of the MAS is held, from October 3 to 5 in the tropics of Cochabamba, one of its political strongholds, which has also been a source of dispute among the ruling party.
Arce’s allies or “arcistas” have tried to have this congress held in the city of El Alto, adjacent to La Paz, and to renew the leaders of the ruling party, starting with Morales himself.
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