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Weekly Report - 08 January 2015 (WR-15-01)
BOLIVIA: MAS completes line-up ahead of elections
President Evo Morales and his ruling Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) have announced their final candidates ahead of the 29 March departmental and municipal elections. The choices attracting most attention were for opposition-controlled seats like the governorship of Beni (the one department out of Bolivia’s nine which the MAS lost in the October 2014 general elections). Morales might have claimed that the process of picking candidates reflected the MAS’s commitment to democracy but protests at the top-down imposition of candidates suggest another story.
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