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Former president Evo Morales received a chair hit to the head during a tense meeting of his party, the Movement for Socialism (MAS), which he leads after returning to Bolivia after the inauguration of Luis Arce in November. The incident occurred on Monday night in the town of Lauca Ñ, in Cochabamba (the former president’s political and union stronghold), in the middle of a debate for the selection of candidates for the next sub-national elections in March. “Out, out, out!” and “Renovation, renovation!” were some of the cries that were heard amid the exaltation of the mass. Last Friday another similar event occurred in the Department of Potosí, to the extent that Morales had to hide and another of his collaborators had to disguise himself to avoid attacks. “We denounce that the coup right is trying to destroy the MAS-IPSP unit by sending infiltrators to generate violence in our members, whose objective is the democratic and public election of our candidates for sub-national elections,” Evo Morales wrote on Twitter.
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