The former president of Bolivia Evo Morales was excluded from the new national leadership of the ruling Movement towards Socialism (MAS), which was formed this Sunday in a congress promoted by the followers of the Luis Arce government, in the city of El Alto. “Evo Morales is the former president of the MAS instrument, there is a new president who is my person,” he indicated. Grover Garcia, elected as party leader and representative of the Single Trade Union Confederation of Peasant Workers of Bolivia (CSUTCB), an organization related to the Bolivian government.
García stated, after taking the oath as the new president of the MAS, that “democracy and discrimination have ended” and that in the next 90 days a congress will be called to change the party’s statutes and “refound” it. More than 6,000 MAS militants attended the “Héroes de Octubre” sports center in El Alto, a city adjacent to La Paz, where after three days of meetings the ruling party elected a new board.
Morales and his followers described this conclave promoted by the government as “illegal”, alleging that only the former president, as the maximum leader of the MAS, could convene it.. Saturday Morales warned that he will be a presidential candidate of his party for the 2025 presidential elections “by hook or by crook”. The MAS bloc that supports the former president called its own congress for July 10 in the town of Villa Tunariin the Tropics of Cochabamba.
