La Paz.- The
Bolivian Minister of Government (Interior),
Roberto Ríos, warned this Saturday that sectors linked to the
former president Evo Morales (2006-2019) want to “convulse and obstruct the electoral process” this Sunday, so he asked people to “not get carried away by those attempts to generate chaos”.
In a press conference, the minister said that there are “intelligence reports” from the Police indicating that groups of supporters, “identified with Mr. Evo Morales,” are trying to harm the general elections.
“We cannot allow these people to threaten security in our country, but also to threaten the political right that we citizens have, which is to elect our authorities through voting,” he said.
Ríos also alerted “the international community” about these alleged attempts to “obstruct” the development of the electoral process.
«We ask the brothers and sisters of the Cochabamba Tropics not to be carried away by these attempts to generate chaos in the democratic process», said Rios.
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Ríos also reported that police presence will be doubled in some regions of the country and that “different contingency plans” will be applied.
Evo Morales invites to vote null
Bolivia’s President Luis Arce on Thursday appointed the new high military command of the Armed Forces with the mission of “maintaining peace and governability” in the country and also urged Bolivians to go to the polls this Sunday so that “a transition of Government takes place after a long time in a peaceful and democratic manner.”
For his part, former President Morales, as he
cannot run as a candidate for President because he does not have a party and due to a constitutional disqualification, called his followers and the entire country two weeks ago to vote null in rejection of the “right” and the Arce government which, according to him, will be favored in the electoral process.
Morales renounced his membership in the ruling
Movement for Socialism after losing his nearly 30-year leadership of the party he also founded and is distanced from Arce due to differences in the management of the Government and the MAS presidential candidacy.
Bolivians are called to the polls this Sunday to elect the president, vice president, and Parliament for the 2025-2030 period, amid a severe economic crisis marked by a lack of dollars, fuel shortages, rising inflation that has increased the cost of essential goods, and harsh criticism of Arce and the MAS administration for the “failure of the economic model”.
