• America.The new elections in Bolivia will be held on May 3

Evo Morales appears in the Senate candidacy for the Movement for Socialism (MAS) for the May elections in Bolivia, on a list presented Monday after denouncing a political persecution to prevent him from registering.

Morales heads the candidacy of his party to the Senate Chamber for the Bolivian region of Cochabamba, where he began his political career as a deputy in 1997, in a list that must still be authorized by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Bolivia.

The former president and his party had denounced a political persecution to prevent the candidacy, with actions such as an attempt this Monday to detain one of the lawyers who is seized by Morales from Argentina to present the documentation to the electoral body.

Morales himself posted on Twitter that the lawyer, Wilfredo Chavez, was "safe" after "the dictatorship," as he describes the interim government of Bolivia, try to stop him to "eliminate the MAS" of the process for the elections of the 3 of May. Wilfredo Chavez wrote in this social network that he was the subject of an attempt to stop him in order to prevent him from registering the MAS candidacies.

Evo Morales has been in Argentina since last December, where he has requested refuge and from where he works as MAS campaign manager.

The possibility that he was a candidate for senator or deputy was considered for days, after raising his party from the Cochabamba region, where Morales became known as a coca-union unionist before making the leap to politics.

This Monday concluded the deadline for registering electoral lists, which the electoral body now has to review to determine whether or not they meet the requirements.

Morales' candidacy is questioned since it transcended the possibility of presenting it, since one of the requirements is to reside permanently at least two years before in the constituency for which the candidate is presented.

Evo Morales when he was president came to vote at a voting center where he was registered in the Chapare, a coca area of ​​Cochabamba, but has been out of Bolivia since November 11 he left for Mexico, where he was isolated before traveling after to Argentina.

The former Bolivian governor announced his resignation from the presidency one day before leaving the country, denouncing a coup d'etat to overthrow him after he had been declared the winner in the elections of October 20 of last year, then annulled between allegations of fraud to his favor and after reports of international organizations that warned of irregularities.

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