Indian students of the Swaminarayan Gurukul pray after demonstrating a ritualistic bath called Magh Snan for the media during the auspicious Hindu calendar month of Magh in Ahmedabad, India, Jan. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
Arce, whose popularity has plunged as inflation surges and fuel shortages paralyze the country,last week and nominated his senior minister, Eduardo del Castillo, as the MAS party candidate.
A stern-faced lawyer and loyalist of Arce who oversawover the last year, Del Castillo has struggled to summon the kind of support enjoyed by Morales and Rodríguez.Divisions are also splitting the vote on the right, which has left the anti-MAS movement without a clear front-runner to seize on what could otherwise be the opposition’s first real shot at victory after almost two decades of left-wing rule.
According to the list published Tuesday by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, the successfully registered opposition candidates include Samuel Doria Medina, 66, a former cement tycoon notorious for his multiple unsuccessful presidential bids.There’s also Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, who promoted market-friendly reforms as president from 2001-2002 after serving as vice president to the late military dictator, Hugo Banzer, in a government accused of widespread human rights abuses.
“Morales is out of the race,” Tahuichi Tahuichi, a member of the board, declared on Tuesday.
Morales’ disqualification, though controversial, had been expected. His recently formed political faction, “Evo Pueblo,” lacks official party status, the electoral tribunal said, while an allied party that planned to host his candidacy failed to meet other legal requirements.National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, Juneau, Alaska (1,595 square feet)
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