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Blocked From Bolivia’s Election, Ex-Leader Morales Not Sure How to Respond to Threats of Arrest
Evo Morales urges supporters to spoil ballots to challenge election legitimacy amid a party split, with up to 40% of votes expected to be invalid, analysts say.
- On Sunday, Former President Evo Morales urged supporters from his Chapare stronghold to spoil their ballots in Bolivia’s general election.
- The Bolivian Constitutional Court enforced a law preventing individuals from serving more than two presidential terms, blocking Morales’s third bid and fueling a party split with President Luis Arce.
- Last year, Morales was charged with human trafficking and accused of impregnating a 15-year-old girl, charges he describes as politically motivated.
- If no candidate receives 50% of the vote on Sunday, a run-off election will follow, even if the majority of votes are blank or spoiled.
- Amid Bolivia’s worst economic crisis, the MAS implosion benefits the right-wing opposition, which has its best chance since 2006 despite Morales’s dismissal of fears over ballot spoiling.
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Blocked from Bolivia’s election, ex-leader Morales not sure how to respond to threats of arrest
LAUCA Ñ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia's charismatic, long-serving ex-President Evo Morales told The Associated Press on Saturday that he didn't know what to do about…
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Blocked from Bolivia's election, ex-leader Morales not sure how to respond to threats of arrest
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The Bolivian government minister warned that sectors linked to former President Evo Morales want to "convulse and hinder the electoral process."
The poorest country in South America is in a severe economic crisis with soaring inflation and a crippling fuel shortage. Former president, Evo Morales, who is suspected of being a minor, is calling on the public to vote for him on a blank ballot, but many in the public are disgusted with the socialist economy promoted by the left.
Bolivians go to polls in election that could end 20 years of socialism
… to the polls in an election that could mark a … to power with the first election of Evo Morales in … followed closely by rightwing former president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga. Deeply … electoral court rulings, Bolivia’s first Indigenous president called protests that …
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