Arce renounces his candidacy and calls the unity of the Bolivian left

Cornered by the economic crisis, which made it fall to the floor in the pre -electoral surveys, the Bolivian President Luis Arce declined the presidential candidacy he had officialized a few weeks ago. “Honoring the memory of heroes and martyrs, today I announce my decision to decline my candidacy for the elections. I will not be a popular vote division factor or facilitate a fascistoid right -wing project, which wants to destroy the model we have built,” he said in the central part of a televised message.

Arce justified his decision for ideological reasons, without referring to the fact that his unattractive electoral had prevented him from making a meeting of the Socialism (MAS) movement on Sunday in which the names of his vice president and applicants to parliamentary positions should be approved. It was then leaked that the social organizations that constitute the core of the MAS did not want to compete with Arce at the head. Registration of political parties lists are set for May 19.

“In my four decades of militancy on the left I was never wrong in what place I should be who should defend: always what we proudly call town,” he said. “The main enemy is imperialism and the right that sharpens its fangs when we divide,” he added. “It is not our destiny to pave fate to fascism, I deny me flatly.”

After getting off, Arce called Evo Morales to do the same. To do this he wielded two reasons. According to him, the former president is not constitutionally enabled for another re -election and, in addition, he should not divide the left. At the same time, he called to unify the ranks of this political current around “to which he is better positioned.”

He alluded to the young president of the Senate, Andronón Rodríguez, who a few weeks ago appeared first in two very media surveys. Rodríguez has just announced that he will apply on his own, with a “borrowed” match. At that time, the most was supposed to be completely in Arce’s hands. When the president of the electoral scenario left, Rodríguez could become the candidate of this acronym, the greatest in the country’s democratic history. Everything will depend on the arrangements that are woven between the domes of Bolivian social and union organizations. If they gathered, the most could be the “political instrument” of most of the left.

Evo Morales would be left, who during the last three years has fought intensely with Arce and has also collided with Andrónico Rodríguez to prevent this from participating in the elections. Morales wants to be a candidate at all costs. His unconditional have considered Rodríguez’s launch as a “betrayal” to the historical leader, since it was the one who gave the first political opportunities to the young senator, who is also a cocalero leader.

Recently the ex -president expressed his frustration for the difficulties his movement is finding to be able to participate. In addition to the judgment of the Constitutional Court that limits the number of reelections, which Morales ignores and says that it will not comply, has difficulty getting a acronym with which to run. He denounced that the parties that could “lend” do not want to have deals with him because they fear that he could lead to the cancellation of his legal existence. Recently, the Electoral Court eliminated from the registration of parties to two acronym almost without militancy, which had previously had approaches with Morales.

The Evistas have decided to arrive in a great march to La Paz, the political capital of Bolivia, to impose the registration of its leader on May 16. The Electoral Court has responded that it will not act under pressure.

It is not known what effect Arce will not continue in the electoral career on the force with which the government has so far opposed the candidacy of Morales. Nor is it known what will happen to the judicial case of Estupro that weighs against Morales, since in the last hours the Minister of Justice, César Siles, has had to urged the Prosecutor’s Office to be imputed to the former president once. Bolivian justice has a historical tendency to bow in one way or another according to political winds, which can constitute an opportunity for the three -time former president of Bolivia.