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Bolivian court clears the way for Morales to run for fourth term
Source: Reuters
#WORLD NEWS NOVEMBER 28, 2017 / 5:37 PM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO
Bolivian court clears the way for Morales to run for fourth term
Reuters Staff
2 MIN READ
LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivia’s highest court struck down limits on re-election in the country’s constitution and election laws on Tuesday, paving the way for socialist President Evo Morales to run for a fourth term in 2019.
In September, Morales’ Movement to Socialism (MAS) party asked the South American country’s highest court to rescind legal limits barring elected authorities from seeking re-election indefinitely, arguing that these violate human rights.
“All people that were limited by the law and the constitution are hereby able to run for office, because it is up to the Bolivian people to decide,” Macario Lahor Cortez, head of the Plurinational Constitutional Court, wrote in the ruling.
In the decision, the court cited the American Convention on Human Rights, a multilateral treaty signed by many countries in the Americas.
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Bolivian court clears the way for Morales to run for fourth term
Reuters Staff
2 MIN READ
LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivia’s highest court struck down limits on re-election in the country’s constitution and election laws on Tuesday, paving the way for socialist President Evo Morales to run for a fourth term in 2019.
In September, Morales’ Movement to Socialism (MAS) party asked the South American country’s highest court to rescind legal limits barring elected authorities from seeking re-election indefinitely, arguing that these violate human rights.
“All people that were limited by the law and the constitution are hereby able to run for office, because it is up to the Bolivian people to decide,” Macario Lahor Cortez, head of the Plurinational Constitutional Court, wrote in the ruling.
In the decision, the court cited the American Convention on Human Rights, a multilateral treaty signed by many countries in the Americas.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bolivia-politics/bolivian-court-clears-the-way-for-morales-to-run-for-fourth-term-idUSKBN1DS2ZX
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