The former president pointed out that the right wing is attempting to return to power.

On Sunday, Former Bolivian President Evo Morales (2006–2019) said that the proposal to cast null votes in the upcoming Aug. 17 election is gaining momentum amid the possibility he may not be a candidate.

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“The people don’t make mistakes. That’s why I feel that in recent days, a proposal is beginning to grow: if Evo isn’t on the ballot, my vote is null,” Morales said from the Ivirgarzama stadium, in the Cochabamba region, where RUNASUR gathered.

Morales hopes his disqualification as a presidential candidate is “temporary” and emphasized that he will not leave the country, adding, “Those who have stolen are already packing their bags.”

The Leftist leader also stated that if he is arrested, he hopes President Luis Arce “doesn’t kill” him. Morales pointed out that “the right wing” is attempting to return to power and urged his followers to remember that “only through union struggle did we defeat the empire.”

The text reads, “With complete success and in a packed stadium in the Ivirgazama municipality, we concluded the best RUNASUR meeting on the bicentennial of our plurinational state. Long live Bolivia! Long live the peoples of the South!

On Saturday, Morales met with delegations from Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala, Chile, and Brazil to reflect on “the unity of the peoples.”

The Ivirgarzama stadium served as the venue for the RUNASUR event, where delegations arrived carrying their national flags as well as the wiphala, the flag that primarily represents Indigenous peoples.

The RUNASUR meeting concluded with a resolution to create the Intercontinental Anticolonial Movement (MIA), which also seeks to unite Indigenous communities in Africa and Asia in the fight against imperialism.

“Twenty, 30 or 40 years from now, some young people who were here today will remember that from the Ivirgarzama stadium, we launched an intercontinental movement to fight the U.S. empire and capitalism. We are proposing ways to demilitarize the world,” Morales said.

The RUNASUR assembly also resolved to demand that the headquarters of the United Nations be relocated, arguing that “the U.S. does not represent the plurality of the world’s peoples.”

Morales is currently barred from running for president due to a constitutional provision that limits reelection in Bolivia to only one consecutive term. The leftist leader, who has already governed this Andean country three times, is thus ineligible to return to the presidency.

For the first time, Bolivia’s ruling party will head into an election divided. The governing Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) is backing former Interior Minister Eduardo del Castillo as its candidate. Senate President Andronico Rodriguez will run for office under the Popular Alliance, and Morales is supporting the null vote.

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Source: EFE

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