(22 Nov 2024)
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La Paz, Bolivia – 21 November 2024
1. Lawmakers from the Movement to Socialism Party scuffle during session
2. Lawmakers supporting president EvoMorales scuffle with others to take over session
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rosario García, Lawmaker for the Movement to Socialism party (MAS) and supporter of President Luis Arce:
"What we’ve seen today is extreme violence. We are leaving a bad example to the Bolivian people, to the children who are watching. It’s shameful, regretful."
4. Scuffle between lawmakers, alarm blaring from megaphone
5. Floor of Congress
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jerges Mercado, Lawmaker for the Movement to Socialism party (MAS) and supporter of President Luis Arce:
"What gets off to a bad start has to end badly. We are paying the consequences of a bad start of the legislative year."
7. Lawmakers yelling at each other, one using a megaphone
8. Lawmakers locking arms in front of presidency, some yell at each other
STORYLINE:
Bolivian lawmakers of the same governing party scuffled Thursday during a session.
Supporters of former president Evo Morales tried to break the quorum, as they didn’t recognize the recently appointed president of the chamber, Omar Yujra, whom they consider a supporter of President Luis Arce.
The disagreements and tensions within the MAS (Movement Toward Socialism) have been present in the form of roadblocks to the most recent scuffles in Parliament.
Tensions have surged over the past months since supporters of Bolivia’s transformative and divisive former President Evo Morales erected crippling roadblocks aimed at rebuking President Luis Arce.
Days before the election of Yujra, Morales claimed he survived an assassination attempt after unidentified men opened fire on his car.
Arce was Morales’s former economy minister, and both are vying to lead Bolivia’s governing socialist party into next year’s elections.
The surge in tensions comes against the backdrop of a bitter rift at the highest rungs of Bolivia’s long-dominant Movement Toward Socialism party, which deepened last month when authorities announced their intention to arrest Morales on charges that he fathered a daughter with a 15-year-old girl in 2016 when he was 56 years old and president.
Morales and his supporters have decried the case as a political witch hunt to block his candidacy in the 2025 election.
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