The previous president of Bolivia and chief of the ruling social gathering Motion In direction of Socialism (MAS), Evo Morales (2006-2019), accused the Bolivian Ministry of Authorities on Thursday of “violently attacking and persecuting” his supporters.
The previous president referred to the assembly of political organizations referred to as for this Wednesday by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), which was preceded by clashes between Morales’ supporters and people near the Bolivian president, Luis Arce, each teams made up of members of the MAS.
“What’s the job of the Ministry of Authorities? To handle its individuals, however now we now have to handle the Ministry of Authorities”Morales mentioned at a press convention within the metropolis of La Paz.
The previous president mentioned that on Wednesday public servants got here out with tomatoes, firecrackers and bazookas to assault his followers, who he mentioned numbered greater than 3,500 individuals.
«The day earlier than yesterday, the Ministry of Authorities knowledgeable me that they need to deliver dynamite and firecrackers, and that Evo shouldn’t be allowed to attend the assembly.»Morales added.
Later, by way of a publish on X, he denounced that “not a single particular person has been arrested” for the assaults suffered by his supporters.
“Our sisters and brothers who accompanied us to the assembly of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal have been violently repressed by teams of vandals despatched by the Authorities of Luis Arce and guarded by the Police”he added.
He additionally recalled that in Could of this yr he noticed a helicopter flying over his residence within the central area of the Cochabamba Tropics, a area that’s his political and union stronghold, and mentioned that it was individuals from the Arce Authorities.
“There’s fixed persecution within the tropics,” he added.
The day earlier than, each Morales supporters and Arce supporters gathered across the TSE headquarters and engaged in fights involving insults and blows with sticks, in addition to chants of help for his or her leaders with the fixed use of firecrackers.
The assembly of political organizations culminated within the afternoon with the unanimous determination to ask the Plurinational Legislative Meeting (ALP) that the presidential main elections be suspended, to present precedence to the judicial elections that ought to have been held in 2023.
Morales didn’t agree with this determination, didn’t signal the joint declaration and left the assembly place surrounded by his supporters.
Arce and Morales have been estranged since late 2021 and their variations deepened final yr because of the holding of a nationwide social gathering congress by which, within the absence of the president and his loyal sectors, the previous president was ratified as chief of the MAS and was named “sole candidate” for the 2025 elections. EFE (I)
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