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#BoliviaElections Apparent VP-elect David Choquehuanca laying out (in September) how the party's grassroots base demands change from the top of the party… lostiempos.com/actualidad/pais/20200925/futuro-evo-exministros-ponen-aprietos-arce-choquehuanca
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Translation: For the VP candidate, David Choquehuanca, [Evo and his cluster of exiled ministers] should not return to the MAS and President Morales should defend himself in the courts if the accusations against him are proven. …
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Meanwhile, presidential candidate Luis Arce points out that those of this cluster [entorno] who have asylum in the Mexican Embassy should receive save-conduct passes and walk freely. …
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"We, including brother Luis [Arce], have been in various places and in all the meetings; I don't know, if we had 20 meetings, we were told this in 19. They told us that the ministers of the prior administration should not return."
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"They cannot continue to be ministers, they cannot continue as ministers. And everywhere—the miners, the middle class, and everyone—they told this to us," [Choquehuanca] mentioned.
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The ex-foreign minister stated that "the grassroots base complained" that there had been arrogance and self-importance, "there was abuse, the comrades told us."
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Asked about the role that ex-president Morales will have if the MAS wins the election, Choquehuanca said that [the new government] will obey "the people, and not [certain] persons."
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He said, "We are going to give opportunity to the new generations" and that now begins "a new stage in the process of change, a second stage" that—he assured—will be different than the last.
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He admitted that various errors had been committed, but in the new administration those failings will be rectified.
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With regard to the denunciations against Morales for statutory rape [estupro], he said that, if there is proof, Morales will have to submit to justice and he said he does not know how many children the former president had during his government.
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"I think that he [Evo Morales] has more than the two [children he publicly recognizes]. … I don't know how many women he will have had [during his term]. … I have said there there is machismo, and that we have to struggle against it." said [Choquehuanca] in an interview.