The former Bolivian Minister of Economy Luis Arce will be a candidate for the presidency in the elections next May 3 in Bolivia, in a formula with former Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca, Bolivian former president Evo Morales reported Sunday.
The announcement of the binomial that will support the ex-president's party, the Movement To Socialism (MAS), unions and related organizations, was made by Morales in a press conference in Buenos Aires, where he has been isolated for more than a month.
Arce is "a combination between the city and the countryside to continue the process of change. Our peasant movement is not exclusive and not marginal," said Morales, who ruled Bolivia for almost 14 years until his forced resignation by the armed forces on 10 November.
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Both Arce and Choquehuanca traveled to Buenos Aires for the deliberations in which some 50 leaders of the party, trade unions and social movements participated. However, neither was present at the press conference, Agence France Press reported .
Luis Arce, 56, of La Paz, was Minister of Economy and Public Finance between 2006 and 2017, and between January and November 2019. He is considered the father of the call by some Bolivian "economic miracle," based on a model of productive community social development.
Coquehuanca, 58, was chancellor from 2006 to 2017. From that year he assumed the general secretariat of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America ( ALBA ).
Different polls assign the Morales party, the MAS, an intention to vote of 20.7%, while its immediate competitor, the former centrist president Carlos Mesa, follows him with 13.8%.
Bolivia will go to the polls on May 3 and an eventual second round is set for June 14.
Morales resigned from the presidency in the midst of the social upheaval following his victory in the first round of the presidential elections on October 20, elections that were suspended after an OAS audit found irregularities.
Before taking refuge in Argentina, he spent about a month as a refugee in Mexico.
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