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Sorry for continuing the conversation in here since the OP was a coward and closed the thread because all he was looking for was sympathy when things weren't going his way but feel free to disregard my reply completely. I just didn't want you to misunderstand my position.
I really am not defending him. I don't belong to any political party and I usually vote for candidates from center, left or right, as long as they're not extremists and they convinced me. I don't even know if there really was election tampering but if there was, it's no excuse for hanging a "Sorry, democracy has been canceled due to election tampering" sign and seize power.
If there was election tampering, there should have been a proper investigation, conducted by a third party, preferably a foreign delegation, and depending on the outcome, new elections should have been run or not.
What happened was way different. A political party used the military, on a presumption of fraud, the excuse of "civil unrest" to exile a seating president and seize power. It's a trick as old as the world and that has been used in coups all over Africa and South and Central America, as well as some of Asia.
My point was only that the nature of democracy is challenged by elections fraud, just like by military coup and that agreeing politically with one side or the other doesn't make one outcome more democratic than the other. They're both terribly wrong and new elections should have already been called for and organized if the new government cared about democracy.
Anyway feel free to ignore me but I just wanted to clarify that I don't stand for Morales, or defend him, or even believe him to be innocent. I just stand for democracy.
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its ok, just a few things, the idea that single political party was behind the hole movement is pretty wrong, and you just gotta see how many parties ran and are now running for the upcoming election, and yeah elections are called and they will take place the first week of May, that was the earliest they could be organized, and the new head of the electoral system is a highly respected and well trained person, who has held this position in the past, when Morales was first elected, and also been the head of Human Rights and institutions that push for democratic advancement in central america.
offcourse i know that there are people outside or inside Bolivia who were and are and will try to take advantage of this situation, but also cannot see that there is a single individual, political party or ideology behind the public unrest that ultimately made Morales resign is just wrong. from workers unions to company heads, indigenous groups to city folk, left and right leaning political groups, they were all part of the generalized protest at all levels of society, that's why i will never consider this a coup, the bulk of the protest came from everyday people and they were for the most part peaceful protest.
the main fuel behind these protest was and is the defense of democracy, Morales ignored the result of the referendum that denied him the possibility of re-election, despite saying that he would accept the results, thanks to his party majority in the different levels of power, he cleaned the judiciary and electoral power of anyone who would oppose him and finally him and his party DID commit electoral fraud during the 2019 elections to perpetuate him and his party, at that point a fair election was impossible to be held and ultimately he ran away from his potential crimes, just like the president before him did, ironically.
If the preservation of democracy is your main concern, then you should be happy, Bolivia's democracy is today much stronger and safer, that under Morales.
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