Jeanine Añez, who claimed the interim presidency, says former President Evo Morales can't run in a new election, but his party can.
Former Bolivian President Evo Morales cannot run as a candidate in any new elections, but his political party can, the country’s interim leader said Thursday.
Much of the opposition to Morales sprang from his refusal to accept a referendum that would have forbidden him from running for a new term. Añez also announced she would recognize Venezuela’s U.S.-backed opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, as that country’s legitimate leader, joining the U.S. and 50 other countries in repudiating socialist President Nicolás Maduro, an ally of Morales.
“If this is seen by the indigenous social movement as an effort by the old elite to restore the old order in Bolivian society, I think that is a recipe for tremendous political conflict,” said Kenneth Roberts, professor of government at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.
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