Bolivia: Evo Morales Will Run In 2025 Elections

Evo Morales has announced that he will run again in the 2025 presidential election. The former coca cultivator and trade unionist was already president of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019, and his candidacy follows lengthy clashes with the government (led by his own party) and with the current head of state Luis Arce, his political heir.

The candidacy was announced by Morales himself, who wrote on X-Twitter on Sunday, September 24: “Due to the government’s attacks, its plans to outlaw MAS (Movement for Socialism) and throw us out through political processes, up to physical elimination, we have decided to accept the requests of our activists and the many sisters and brothers participating in demonstrations throughout the country, and I will become a candidate for the presidency of our beloved Bolivia.”

Thus, tensions between two politicians from the same party, who were once allies, are reaching their climax (Arce was Morales’s minister of economy before becoming his successor). In recent months, Morales has gone so far as to accuse government ministers of conspiring against him by trying to implicate him in corruption. There has also been no shortage of interpersonal attacks involving the sons of two politicians who are essentially jostling for the upcoming candidacy. It is being put forward by a commission that will be formed at the MAS congress scheduled for next week.

“I’ll give it my all. We still have strength. We will honestly, honorably, and truthfully face all the attacks that we are subjected to on social networks from the President’s services. I want the Bolivian people to know. Their plan is this: if they fail to stop our next Congress in Lauca Eñe and take us out of the race, they will use a woman to attack us, just as the right-wingers did… I am very grateful to our sisters and brothers in the government, who are warning of their intentions to stop us and hand us over to the United States,” Morales explained on X-Twitter.