Weekly Report - 13 November 2014 (WR-14-45)

With the path having been cleared for indefinite presidential re-election in Ecuador [WR-14-44], some question whether it is only a matter of time before Bolivia follows suit. This week all nine senators and 32 deputies elected on the ticket of the opposition alliance Unidad Demócrata (UD) in the 12 October general election, signed a declaration pledging not to allow President Evo Morales to stay in power a day later than “22 January 2020” – when his next five-year term ends. However, the pledge could well be in vain: the electoral authorities have just confirmed that in the October vote, Morales’ ruling Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) did in fact secure a two-thirds majority in the 166-seat national legislature, giving it sufficient support to change the 2009 constitution to allow Morales to stand again.

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