US EditionBolivia's electoral court bans ex-leader Morales and suspends a key a candidate
- Bolivia's top electoral tribunal disqualified former President Evo Morales and suspended another leftist candidate on May 20, 2025, in La Paz ahead of the August 17 election.
- The tribunal acted following a constitutional ban on more than two presidential terms, amid a power struggle fracturing Morales' Movement Toward Socialism party.
- Morales vowed to contest the ban legally and socially, while the suspended candidate denounced the decision as a political attack threatening democracy during a polarized crisis.
- Morales warned that Bolivia would experience turmoil if he were barred from running, while Rodriguez described the suspension as politically motivated, amid growing economic challenges and worsening fuel scarcity under the increasingly unpopular President Arce.
- The disqualifications have intensified political instability and may draw out contested elections, reflecting a judiciary weakened by partisan influence.
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Three months before the presidential elections in Bolivia, ten candidates have officially registered at the Supreme Electoral Court. No more: President Luis Arce and former President Evo Morales.
Bolivia: Electoral Tribunal Upholds Disqualification of Evo Morales' Presidential Candidacy
Less than three months before the general elections in Bolivia, former President Evo Morales (2006-2019) has promised to conduct a legal and social battle to reverse his disqualification and run for president again, after the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) upheld his disqualification. At his stronghold in The Chapare, Morales declared to Radio Kawsachun Coca that he is not going to renounce his presidential aspiration and condemned the institu…
Left-wing ex-President Evo Morales has not been allowed to vote. The feud with the incumbent and former companion Luis Arce continues to sharpen.
Less than three months after the general elections in Bolivia, former President Evo Morales (2006-2019) has promised a legal and social battle to reverse his disqualification and run for president again. READ ALSO TSE of Bolivia leaves presidential candidacy of Andronico Rodríguez on hold From his bastion in Chapare, Morales declared on Radio Kawsachun Coca that he does not renounce his presidential aspiration and denounced a political maneuver …
The judicial challenges prevented the registration in the Bolivian elections of former President Evo Morales and Senate President Andronico Rodríguez, the two left figures with the most support in the polls. Rodríguez’s situation is pending consideration by the Electoral Tribunal; Morales’s is final. The party with which the former president tried to register had already lost his legal personality, so the electoral authorities did not even allow…
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Bolivia's electoral tribunal bans ex-leader Morales and suspends a key candidate, drawing backlash
Bolivia’s top electoral tribunal on Tuesday disqualified former President Evo Morales from running in the August presidential vote and suspended the candidacy of the other main leftist contender, immediately vaulting President Luis Arce’s governing socialist party into the ranks of front-runners despite its unpopularity.
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