The former president of Bolivia Evo Morales (2006-2019) was excluded from the new national leadership of the ruling Movement towards Socialism (MAS), which was formed this Sunday in a congress promoted by groups following the Government of Luis Arce, in the city from El Alto.
“Evo Morales is the former president of the MAS instrument, there is a new president who is my person,” said Grover García who was elected as leader of the party and is a representative of the Single Trade Union Confederation of Peasant Workers of Bolivia (CSUTCB), an organization related to the MAS. Arce Executive.
García stated, after being sworn in as the new president of the MAS, that “the ‘democracy’ and discrimination have ended” and that in the next 90 days a congress will be called to change the party’s statutes to “refound” it.
Faced with warnings from sectors close to Morales to block roads in protest against the political meeting of groups related to Arce, García argued that “the mobilizations are against the people, against the families and it is not correct.”
For his part, Arce assured on social networks that “never again should our political instrument be used to satisfy the aspirations of a person or a group; “Never again should our social organizations be relegated from their own political project.”
More than six thousand MAS militants attended the Héroes de Octubre sports center in El Alto, a city next to La Paz, where – after three days of meetings – the ruling party elected a new board, leaving Morales out.
Morales and his followers described this conclave promoted by the Government as “illegal”, alleging that only the former president – as the maximum leader of the MAS – could convene it. The day before, Morales warned that he will be his party’s presidential candidate for the 2025 presidential elections “by hook or by crook,” during a message to his followers in the Cochabamba region.
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