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Former President of Bolivia Evo Morales (2006-2019) He left Argentina this Friday, where he has lived for almost a year, bound for Venezuela, they confirmed to Efe Alberto Fernández’s government sources, who did not specify how long he will be absent from the country.
The former president, whose party, the Movement for Socialism (MAS), won last Sunday’s elections in Bolivia, with Luis Arce As a presidential candidate, he departed from the International Airport of the Buenos Aires town of Ezeiza to Caracas.
On Monday of this week, Morales said at a press conference that “sooner or later” he will return to Bolivia and he reiterated that the judicial processes that weigh on him in his country are “part of a dirty war.”
“It is a matter of time. My great desire is to return to Bolivia,” said the former president, who if he returns to his country will have to appear before the Justice because he is accused of alleged genocide, terrorism, sedition, electoral fraud and rape, among other cases, many of them initiated by the transitory government of Jeanine Áñez, considered by Morales as a dictatorship.
The leftist politician insisted that when that eventual return to his country occurs, that He left in November 2019 after leaving the Presidency denouncing a coupHis intention is to settle in his region, the Cochabamba Tropic area, and become a farmer.
And in another appearance, this Thursday, requested the resignation of Luis Almagro as Secretary General of the Organization of American States, who will take to the International Criminal Court for the report in which the body denounced irregularities in the Bolivian elections last year.
Morales assures that the comfortable victory of the MAS in last Sunday’s elections shows that in last year’s there was no fraud.
Bolivia closed its long electoral process today with the proclamation of the triumph of the MAS, a result recognized by its main contender, Carlos Mesa, and the international community.
Arce, former Minister of Economy, and David Choquehuanca, former chancellor, were proclaimed as elected president and vice president, respectively, by the head of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), Salvador Romero, in an act in which the final results of the official count were presented.
The count gives Arce the 55.1 percent of the vote, above the 50 percent plus one he needed to win in the first round, while Carlos Mesa, from Comunidad Ciudadana (CC), obtained 28.83 percent of the votes and Luis Fernando Camacho, from Creemos, 14.
