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The electoral justice of Bolivia annulled the MAS congress led by Evo Morales

The plenary session of the group in Lauca Ñ had ratified Evo Morales as head of the party and had also chosen him as a presidential candidate for 2025.

  • 01/11/2023 • 06:55

The electoral justice of Bolivia annulled this Tuesday the Congress of the ruling Movement towards Socialism (MAS) led by former president Evo Morales and which designated him as a candidate for 2025, and ordered a new call. The decision was made by the Plenary Chamber of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), which thus invalidated the meeting at the beginning of October in the city of Lauca Ñ, in the department of Cochabamba. “The full chamber of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal has decided to reject the determinations of the tenth ordinary congress of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), regarding the lesson of its board of directors, the ethics court and has ordered that the current board of directors adopt measures to convene a new convocation of a congress under the determinations of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal,” reported the secretary of the full chamber of the TSE, Fernando Arteaga. In some way, the Court adopted the report presented by the Intercultural Service for Democratic Strengthening (Sifde), which had recommended not registering Morales as president of the National Directorate of the MAS-IPSP, for having failed to comply with a requirement for his election. At the Lauca Ñ meeting, not only was Morales ratified as head of the party, but he was also elected presidential candidate for 2025. President Luis Arce, Vice President David Choquehuanca and around twenty leaders and legislators close to the Government were also considered “self-expelled” from the force.