Morales attacks Áñez for expelling two Spanish diplomats and worsening relations with "leftist governments"

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The former president of Bolivia Evo Morales strongly condemned the decision of the Bolivian interim government to expel two Spanish diplomats on Tuesday in Buenos Aires and warned that "international rights have not been respected."

"I do not share. I strongly condemn this type of sanctions, of withdrawals. I do not know if it is oriented only to give a bad image of Bolivia or if it is oriented to break diplomatic relations with progressive or leftist governments of the world," Morales said in statements Buenos Aires.

The interim government of Bolivia on Monday declared unpleasant people to the Mexican ambassador, María Teresa Mercado; to the charge of Business of the Embassy of Spain, Cristina Borreguero; to the Spanish consul, Álvaro Fernández, and other officials and gave them 72 hours to leave the country.

The Executive of Jeanine Áñez accused them of having damaged Bolivian sovereignty by the visit of Spanish diplomats accompanied by "hooded" and "presumably armed" individuals to Mercado at his residence in La Paz last Friday. Around a dozen former officials of the Evo Morales Administration have been isolated in the Mexican residence since November, several of them accused by the Government of Áñez for crimes such as terrorism.

"The dictatorship of Áñez creates a bad image of Bolivia"

"It is not possible that the de facto government, the dictatorship of Áñez, makes a bad image of Bolivia before the international community," Morales questioned after an end-of-year toast with referents from the Bolivian community in Argentina.

The Bolivian president said that "he is surprised by this kind of attitude in international diplomacy, because international rights have not been respected."

"We repudiate, we reject, we do not share. It is one thing to have ideological differences and another thing is for someone to come to conspire, as happened with me with a US ambassador," Morales said, recalling the diplomatic questions he had with Washington during his management. The former president said that "the people will judge" the action taken by the interim government of Áñez.

On the other hand, Morales celebrated the decision of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) to dismiss the requests for cancellation of the legal status of the Movement to Socialism - Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples (MAS - IPSP).

"The MAS will always be present. To say that the MAS does not participate is to say that half of Bolivia does not participate, that the Bolivian people and the whole world know how they are trying to harm us," said the president after knowing the measure.

Later, Morales wrote in his Twitter social network account that "those who requested the ban of the MAS are the coup plotters, the undemocratic, the heirs of Banzer."

"The only thing we ask of the new members of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal is to apply the law without biasing with any party or citizen group," he said.

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