The Bolivian Constitutional Court confirmed that Evo Morales cannot present himself as a candidate in the elections.

Bolivia's Constitutional Court issued a ruling this Friday confirming that the re-elections in the country are once continuous or uninterrupted, por lo que el exmandaterio Evo Morales (2006-2019) would be Obstacles for Presidential candidates in 2025.

El auto constitucional, signed by judges René Espada and Gonzalo Hurtado, establishes that elected authorities in the legislative, executive and judicial branches “are exercised for two terms only, sean estos continuos or discontinuos sin possibility de ampliarse. un tercer mandate”.

This responded to a recurso de complementación submitted by the legislators on the promulgation of the 2009 Constitution and brought forward by Morales, busca. “Evitar de cualquier mode la permanencia de un mandatorio.”en el caso de los Órganos Legislativo (y) Ejecutivo por más de diez años en total”.

This affects Morales' intentions to run for president again, as he has ruled Bolivia three times (2006-2009, 2010-2014 and 2015-2019).

Similarly, the provisions of the Constitutional Court apply to the magistrates of the judicial power, who can be re-elected once by popular vote, and their mandate cannot be extended for electoral votes.

To determine the resolution “ninguna autoridad electa que hubiera superado dos candidadas anteriores, podrá” candidate y menos exercer” los cargos de vice-presidente, Presidente del Legislativo, Presidente de la Cámara de Putados y del Senado”.

This week, Senator Andrónico Rodriguez, afín al bloco officialista de Morales, fue He was elected the chairman of the Senate for the fourth time in a row.

El putado opositor Jose Carlos Gutierrez, one of the lawmakers who filed the petition, said. Ephesus que el auto constitucional es una “clarification” spread in the case of any misma año pasado finale.

A December 2023 constitutional ruling in Bolivia established that the president and vice president can only be elected for two terms and serve either continuously or intermittently, and that indefinite re-election does not exist and is “not a human right”.

“Okay What left Evo Morales alone in Bolivia? y dejar de pretender conseguir el poder por la fuerza, enfrentar a la Justicia como un civil cualquiera, porque él no va a poder ser presidente nunca más en su vida”, Gutierrez emphasized.

Interviewed this week Ephesus little Lauca ÑMorales reiterated that he “legally has the constitutional, national, international capacity” and that the government's intention is to “make Evo está inhabilitado” through justice.

The official Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) is divided into two factions, one supporting Morales and the other the Bolivian president. Luis ArceDue to internal tensions in the official party starting in the final of 2021.

This tension has increased in the past few weeks with road blockades demanding that Morales' supporters, who have been detained in the center of the country for 24 days, stand up. Investigating sexual violence and human traffickingademás por el respeto al congreso de 2023 que le le le le claimed “candidato único” para los selectios de 2025.

El bloque de Arce and el de Morales also face scrutiny from the MAS, whose survival as a party depends on the next session where the Morales-led directive is renewed.