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A Bolivian judge confirmed this Monday that the former president Evo Morales is disqualified from running for the Senate in the October 18 elections, the government reported.
Justice Minister Alvaro Coimbra wrote on Twitter: “Urgent Evo Morales Disabled”, after Judge Alfredo Jaimes Terrazas confirmed the disqualification of the former president, as the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) had ordered in February.
“They deny the tutelage of Evo Morales, Democracy won”, celebrated as the lawyer Williams Bascopé, part of the legal team that opposed the constitutional protection presented by the defense of the former president.
Morales (2006-2019), a refugee in Argentina after resigning in November last year, had gone before the constitutional court of La Paz to annul the decision of the TSE and allow him to be a candidate for the central region of Cochabamba.
The TSE had denied him the right to run for not having residence in that region, where he emerged decades ago as a political leader.
“Evo Morales cannot be qualified as a candidate for senator, because he resides in Argentina”, said the lawyer Bascopé.
Neither Morales nor his party, the Movement for Socialism (MAS) issued a reaction in this regard.
The constitutional chamber of La Paz tied last week when voting on the matter. For this reason, the case passed into the hands of Judge Jaimes Terrazas, who as adjudicator, confirmed the TSE’s resolution.
Bolivia will go to elections on October 18, one year after the elections canceled due to allegations of fraud in favor of the leftist Morales.
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