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Weekly Report - 03 September 2015 (WR-15-35)
BOLIVIA: Morales loses an ‘untouchable’ as speculation over re-election bid mounts
Last week Bolivia’s President Evo Morales announced the overhaul of the government’s indigenous development fund (Fondioc). The Fondioc, which sits under the rural development & land ministry, made headlines in February [WR-15-12] following an audit which revealed major corruption – one of worst scandals to afflict Morales’s Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) government since it first took office in 2006. Days later, rural development & land minister, Nemesia Achacollo, long considered one of Morales’s ‘untouchables’, resigned (albeit while maintaining her innocence). Her departure is widely considered an exercise in damage control ahead of attempts by the MAS to change the 2009 constitution to allow Morales to run for a fourth consecutive term in 2020.
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