:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/HEY23GZFTZEYVPFUV5BQ72VNZ4.jpg "The MAS leadership summoned Luis Arce to resolve the divisions generated within Evo Morales' party 1")
The leadership of Bolivia’s official party, the Movement for Socialism (MAS), asked the country’s president on Wednesday, Luis Arcea meeting to “correct” the group’s internal problems, amid lingering tensions between its activists and a call from the president for unity.
The vice-president of the MAS, Gerard Garciatold the media that the pro-government leadership is not against the government and will defend President Arce and the Bolivian Vice President, David Choquehuancasince both came to power under this political acronym.
“If our president entered (the government) through the MAS, we are waiting for our president Luis Arce to call us to a meeting with the national leadership be able to solve these internal problems that we have and stop confusing our brothers,” he said.
García reiterated his denunciations of alleged “attacks” and criticism against the former president and top leader of MAS, Evo Moralesby some authorities and lawmakers identified as part of an official faction that calls itself “revival” or close to Arce.
He also regretted that some civil servants were dismissed “for the sole fact of being seen”that is, loyal to the former president, who according to García is the “undisputed leader” of the “process of change”, as the ruling party calls the MAS governments.
“We ask President Luis Arce, we will sit down to talk so that we can correct and no longer confuse our bases,” he insisted.
In the same appearance, another pro-government leader read a statement in which the national leadership of the MAS mentions Arce’s recent statements to an international media in which he asked not to “divide” related social organizations, nor the party itself facing the upcoming general elections of 2025.
The official leadership stressed that “she makes every word and summons the first man of the State to make his speech conform to his actions”.
The leaders demanded that Arce restore the periodic political coordination meetings “which have been suspended by his authority”, to “initiate a process of rapprochement” in which it is defined whether it is still possible “to open the way to the joint search for solutions to the problems that afflict the nation.
They also demanded that “political operators” of entities such as the vice presidency be instructed to “stop dividing social organizations by offering benefits” and jobs in exchange for “attempting to attack and oust “the national management of the MAS.
They also demanded that the allegations of alleged corruption in state entities made by parliamentarians of the “evista” faction, former ministers of Evo Morales and by the former president himself be investigated. .
García said the MAS candidacy for the 2025 elections will be defined in the primaries scheduled for 2024.
Tensions within the MAS began to be felt at the end of 2021, when the “evistas” recommended Arce to make changes among his collaboratorswhich the president failed to do, and they escalated in November when the government agreed to enact a population census law that ended a strike in the Santa Cruz region.
Morales described this standard as a “historical error” and since then his criticism of the Arce government has been almost daily.
(With information from EFE)
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