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Weekly Report - 28 September 2017 (WR-17-38)
BOLIVIA: MAS revives re-election debate
The Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) is working its way through the different options of seeking to remove the constitutional limits on presidential re-election to allow President Evo Morales to run again in 2019 for a fourth consecutive term. Following its surprise defeat in the February 2016 referendum on whether to change the constitution (approved in 2009 under Morales), the MAS filed an appeal before the constitutional court (TCP) on 18 September against the articles in question. The move has predictably been slammed by a handful of prominent opposition figures and is likely to subject the TCP to considerable scrutiny.
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