{"id":478833,"date":"2025-08-17T08:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/evo-morales-says-he-does-not-support-any-presidential-candidate-in-the-bolivian-elections\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T08:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:55:13","slug":"evo-morales-says-he-does-not-support-any-presidential-candidate-in-the-bolivian-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/evo-morales-says-he-does-not-support-any-presidential-candidate-in-the-bolivian-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Evo Morales says he does not support any presidential candidate in the Bolivian elections"},"content":{"rendered":"La Paz.-<\/strong> Former Bolivian President Evo Morales<\/strong> assured this Sunday that he does not support any candidate and that he has no agreement with any political party for the general elections that will take place this day.\n\nMorales (2006-2019) <\/strong>arrived early at the town of Villa 14 where he will vote, located in the Cochabamba Tropics, his political and union stronghold, with a marker in hand to “vote null”.<\/strong>\n\n\n

You may be interested in:<\/strong> Evo Morales is out of the Bolivian elections<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nA group of his followers made a corridor for him to enter a hall where he conducts his Sunday program on Radio Kawsachun Coca and placed a necklace made with coca leaves.\n\n“Until two weeks ago there were possibilities but there was intimidation, threat and persecution”, said the former president regarding alleged agreements with other political groups for him to be a candidate.\n\nThe former president also said that his call to the Bolivian people is to vote null, because without him on the presidential ballot there is no candidate “that represents the people” of Bolivia.\n\nThe Minister of Government (Interior), Roberto R\u00edos, warned the day before that sectors linked to former President Morales want to “convulse and obstruct the electoral process” this Sunday, so he asked people “not to be carried away by those attempts to generate chaos”.\n\nMorales has been entrenched since October 2024 in the Tr\u00f3pico de Cochabamba and surrounded by hundreds of his followers who want to prevent an arrest warrant from being executed against him for an aggravated human trafficking case.\n\nMorales and President Luis Arce have been estranged since the end of 2021; the former president renounced his membership in the ruling Movement for Socialism (MAS) after losing the party leadership after almost 30 years.\n\nA constitutional disqualification left Morales out of the presidential race, who also tried to register for the elections with a “borrowed” party but it did not have legal status before the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE).\n\nIn Bolivia, 7,567,207 people over 18 years old are eligible to elect the president, vice president, and members of the Legislative branch for a five-year term, and another 369,308 citizens will be able to vote abroad.\n\nThe elections are taking place amidst a severe economic crisis, marked by a lack of dollars, fuel shortages, and the worst inflation in decades.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

La Paz.- Former Bolivian President Evo Morales assured this Sunday that he does not support any candidate and that he has no agreement with any political party for the general elections that will take place this day. Morales (2006-2019) arrived early at the town of Villa 14 where he will vote, located in the Cochabamba […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":478834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[17969],"class_list":["post-478833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-evo-morales"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20z7","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/2025-08-03T035432Z-1985526791-RC24ZFAQF8JY-RTRMADP-3-BOLIVIA-ELECTION-VOTE-MORALES.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/2025-08-03T035432Z-1985526791-RC24ZFAQF8JY-RTRMADP-3-BOLIVIA-ELECTION-VOTE-MORALES.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}