Bolivia's Morales launches 4th presidential bid, defying term limit

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Bolivia's Morales launches 4th presidential bid, defying term limit

by Gonzalo TORRICOBolivian ex-president Evo Morales launched a fresh election bid Thursday ahead of polls in August, in defiance of a constitutional term limit and pending criminal charges."We will win," Morales told reporters in his political fiefdom of Cochabamba in central Bolivia in announcing his run.Morales, 65, claims to be the victim of a campaign to sideline him politically, led by incumbent President Luis Arce who was once an ally but …

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By Marlon Sorto and Mauricio Torres, CNN en Español The former president of Bolivia Evo Morales announced on Thursday an agreement with the political party Front for Victory (FPV) to run as its presidential candidate in the August elections, despite the fact that a ruling by the country's Plurinational Constitutional Court prevents him from running again. Morales spoke about the pact during a conference in the town of Lauca Eñe, accompanied by s…

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On February 20, former Bolivian president Evo Morales announced his candidacy for the presidential elections on August 17, openly defying a ban on justice, which declared him ineligible. Read

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La Paz: Former Bolivian President Evo Morales announced on Thursday that he will run in the country’s Aug. 17 general election after forming an alliance with the Frente Para la Victoria (FPV) party. “We now have a party to compete in this year’s election,” Morales told supporters in Cochabamba, openly defying a constitutional ruling that bars him from running amid an ongoing investigation into alleged child abuse. Joined by FPV leader Eliseo Rod…

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"We already have a party to participate in the elections. Now with the Victoria Front we are going to win again," said the ex-mandatario, who definitively abandoned the Conglomerated Socialism Movement (MAS) that led for almost three decades

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Despite the fact that justice prevents him from running for office, Bolivian ex-mandator Evo Morales announced with his followers that he will join the political party Frente para la Victoria (FPV) to be “one candidate” to the presidency for the Bolivian elections of August 17. With this agreement, the ex-mandatario gives the definitive door to the agitated conflict that held him united to the Movement to Socialism (MAS), a party that led him fo…