The Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP) of Bolivia decreed, on Friday night, a constitutional ruling in which it indicates that “indefinite reelection does not exist and that it is not a human right.” Several Bolivian political actors reacted to the measure, especially the detractors of former president Evo Morales (2006-2019), who seeks a new reelection for 2025.

Disseminated by local media, Constitutional Ruling 1010/2023 establishes that in Bolivia the president and vice president can only be elected and serve a mandate for two periods, whether continuous or discontinuous.

This year a sector of the ruling party Movement for Socialism (MAS) proclaimed Evo Morales as the sole candidate for 2025, however the Lauca Ñ congress where Morales was elected is in question by the Electoral Court, which indicates that there were irregularities in the process and ordered its repetition.

In recent months Evo Morales has had a conflict with the current president of Bolivia Luis Arce, who has described Morales as “his main opponent” due to constant criticism of his government.

Former President Morales stated that the sentence is proof of “complicity” of the magistrates in the “black plan” against him carried out by the Government of Luis Arce. He added that the “neoliberals are uniting to try to outlaw” the ruling MAS party with the aim of “eliminating us politically and even physically.”

The TCP relied on a resolution of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of 2021, in which said court refuted Evo Morales’ argument and established that indefinite presidential reelection is not a human right.

The Inter-American Court also published at the time, “the authorization of indefinite presidential re-election is contrary to the principles of a representative democracy and, therefore, to the obligations established in the American Convention on Human Rights and the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man”.

With this measure, Evo Morales would be disqualified from a future election, because he has already governed the Executive for three periods, 2006-2009, 2009-2014 and 2014-2019, and in his last attempt he denounced electoral fraud against him that resulted in a political crisis. In 2017, a ruling by the TCP enabled Morales to run again in the failed 2019 elections in the country, alleging that re-election is a human right, although the Bolivian Constitution only allows for two terms of office.

This situation caused former presidents and politicians to react to the sentence by pointing out that they put an “end to Evo Morales’ delirium of being re-elected forever,” as pointed out by former interim president Jeanine Áñez, who is in prison due to the political and social crisis after the failed elections. 2019 elections.