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After several weeks of post-electoral chaos in Bolivia, which led to the resignation of Evo Morales, suspected of electoral fraud, the former Bolivian president is now the subject of an arrest warrant in his country, issued Wednesday 18 December by two anti-corruption judges.
With our correspondent in La Paz, Alice Campaignolle
Sedition, terrorism and terrorist financing ... These are the facts of which Evo Morales is suspected and which justify the arrest warrant issued this Wednesday by the anti-corruption prosecution of La Paz. The text orders the police " to arrest and take Evo Morales Ayma to the seat of the public prosecutor ".
The former president, after having passed through Mexico and Cuba is now in Argentina, from where he leads the presidential campaign for the MAS, his political party. If it cannot be a candidate itself, the Movement towards socialism will however present a binomial composed of a president and a vice-president in the next elections, whose date has not been set.
Political persecution
There is no collaboration planned between the Bolivian and Argentinian police, the brand new Argentinian president Alberto Fernandez being a fervent defender of Evo Morales.
The ex-president is suspected in particular of having organized blockades and the encirclement of the city of La Paz from abroad, thanks to his numerous supporters in the country. But Evo Morales claims to be the victim of real political persecution and, according to him, Bolivia has sunk into dictatorship.
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