The Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Wednesday that he will register his candidacy for the presidential elections of August 17 with a “borrowed” party and with “thousands and thousands of followers, in addition, he will ask the international community to enforce Bolivia’s laws.
“The day of registration, missing two or three days (for the conclusion of the deadline), we will go thousands and thousands to peace,” Morales said during a meeting with related leaders from the department of Chuquisaca (southeast) in the town of Lauca Ñ, the EFE agency said.
Morales said that half of the population of the tropics of Cochabamba (center), his main political and trade union bastion, will accompany him for the registration of his candidacy, so he encouraged his followers to “be getting ready.”
“Imagine, let’s see, do not register us? We are going to invite the international community (a) to come to enforce national norms nothing more, we are enabled, ”he emphasized.
Morales shared with the leaders some axes of his government proposal such as incentives for private investment, a tax reform and the application of social programs in addition to the lifting of the subsidy to fuels.
“If we campaign, if they were the elections tomorrow, we would win with more than 60 %,” he said.
