The former president of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) Salvador Romero is in the sights of Evo Morales, who assured that he is one of those responsible for his disqualification as senatorial candidate for the Movement to Socialism (MAS) in the general elections of 2020.
"We are going to study with the legal team to whom it corresponds, of course the former president of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (Salvador Romero) has to do a lot, but also the members of the Constitutional Chamber, some of them excused themselves, some ruled against me", he said in an interview with the Bolivisión network.
On February 20, 2020, the TSE disqualified Morales' candidacy as senator for Cochabamba for not complying with the permanent residence requirement. On that occasion, Romero explained that due to the lack of such condition, Morales and other candidates were "disqualified".
After learning of the ruling, the current State Attorney General Wilfredo Chávez, then attorney of the former president, filed a legal appeal before the Departmental Court of Justice of La Paz to revoke the decision of the TSE. However, in September of that year, the court denied Morales' request filed by his defense.
In this context, Morales assured that behind the TSE's decision there was a political intention to disqualify him, although he did not reveal names, he stated that he has a lot of information about the alleged perpetrators. He expects the judges and members of the TSE to reveal the names.
"I have a lot of uncrossed information, I hope the judges or the court will say who has instructed them to disqualify me (...) I want to know who has politically instructed them to disqualify me", said the MAS leader.
On Thursday it was known that the Plurinational Constitutional Tribunal (TCP) issued a sentence on May 7, 2021 in which it concluded that Evo Morales should not have been disqualified as a senatorial candidate, because he had the condition of political refugee and ordered the economic compensation for civil and judicial damages.
On the other hand, Morales revealed that he also has information that some militants of his party applauded the decision of the TSE to disqualify him as candidate.
"Although I have information, after hearing that they disqualified, some applauded, some danced, including some MAS militants," he added.
He added in his Twitter account that after the "coup" the government of Jeanine Áñez "suspended the Constitution to impose corruption, massacres and repression".
He warned once again that they will "set a precedent and prosecute those responsible" to never again try to prevent the political participation of other people.
Morales in November 2019 resigned from the presidency in the midst of a political crisis, left the country and went into exile in Mexico and then in Argentina for almost a year.
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