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Weekly Report - 04 April 2012 (WR-12-14)
BOLIVIA: Evo quells remaining doubts
President Evo Morales has ended speculation. In its recent national summit, the ruling Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) unanimously selected Morales as its presidential candidate ahead of the 2014 general election. This, despite the doubts surrounding his validity to run: the 2009 constitution permits only two consecutive presidential terms, but Morales, who first took office in January 2006 and then again in January 2010, argues that, as he is serving for the first time under the new constitution, he is eligible to stand again. While the opposition has challenged this argument, its weakness in the plurinational legislature - in which the MAS has roughly a two-thirds majority - means that its case is unlikely to prosper.
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