The deposed president Evo Morales therefore made his choice and he wanted to make it known since his Argentine exile. Luis Arce, his ex-Minister of the Economy, will be a candidate in the presidential election of May 3 in Bolivia, announced Sunday the former head of state during a press conference in Buenos Aires.
Nuestra dupla: Luis Arce y David Choquehuanca es una combinación del conocimiento científico y el conocimiento originario milenario, la unidad del campo y de la ciudad, del cuerpo y del alma.
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Luis Arce, who will be seconded by former Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca for the post of vice-president, will be supported by the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), the party of Evo Morales, unions and sympathetic organizations, said the former president from Argentina where he has been in exile for more than a month. This candidate represents “a bridge between the city and the countryside to continue the process of change. Our peasant movement does not exclude or reject anyone, "said the man who ruled Bolivia for almost 14 years until his resignation on November 10. Above all it "is a guarantee for the national economy", he added about his ex-Minister of the Economy and Public Finance (2006-2017 and January-November 2019).
The polls give 20% to the Movement towards socialism
The two former ministers traveled to Buenos Aires where around 50 leaders from MAS, unions and other organizations debated, but neither was present at the press conference. The candidates will be officially nominated in the Argentine capital on Wednesday. Polls carried out before this announcement credit the MAS with 20.7% of the voting intentions for the presidential election in May, ahead of the other candidates. The first prosecutor was ex-centrist Carlos Mesa (13.8%).
Luis Arce, 56, from La Paz, is considered to be the father of what some people call the Bolivian "economic miracle", based on a model of social, community and productive development. After the nationalization of hydrocarbons in 2006, which coincided with an unprecedented boom in oil prices, the Bolivian economy began to grow at an annual rate of 4.9%, and extreme poverty fell by 38.2 % in 2005 to 17.1% in 2018, according to official figures.
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