Evo Morales, about the presidential election in Bolivia: “elections without legitimacy. The vote will be ranked first”

Former President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, removed from the presidential race and targeted by an arrest warrant, denounced an election on Sunday. “Lack of legitimacy”, declaring that the vote, which he encouraged during the campaign, will win.

Evo Morales is targeted by an arrest warrant. Photo EPA EFE

On Sunday, nearly eight million voters voted to choose a successor to Luis Arce, who does not apply for a new term, in a country immersed in a serious economic crisis and could tip right after 20 years of socialist governments, according to AFP, quoted by Agerpres.

After voting in his chaplain, in the center of Bolivia, where he withdrew from October, the former Left President to decline that “This vote will demonstrate that this is elections without legitimacy.”.

“For the first time in history: If there is no fraud, the voting vote will be ranked in the first place“, Said Morales, expressing regret on”Choices without a people, a democracy without deep bolivia ”.

Dressed in a white shirt and sandals, the former Bolivian head of the state voted surrounded by dozens of supporters who, holding hands, formed a security cord around him.

Evo Morales, targeted by an arrest warrant

Morales, the first Bolivian president of indigenous origin, who was in power from 2006 to 2019, is targeted by an arrest warrant in a file in which he is accused of raping a minor, an accusation he rejects.

However, wishing to run for a fourth term, he was disqualified by the Constitutional Court, which limited the number of presidential mandates to two.

The Millionaire of the center-right Samuel Doria Medina, 66, and the former right-handed president Jorge Quiroga, 65, are in the first places in the polls, of the eight candidates registered in the race.

The poll would also renew Bicameral Parliament of Bolivia