Bolivia: Deputies close to Morales accuse Arce of fomenting internal strife in the regime

On Monday, November 7, deputies of the ruling Movement Towards Socialism party (MAS) blamed the president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, and his vice president, David Choquehuanca, for the “fracture” caused in the party.

They criticized the management of the census conflict with the opposition, which has caused an indefinite civic strike in the province of Santa Cruz.

“Today, the bench of the Movement Towards Socialism is divided and fractured, and who is responsible? We will say it with absolute firmness: our presidents, Luis Arce Catacora and David Choquehuanca.

“They are the ones who have divided. Illegally, they elect a head of the national bench.

“Also, in the style of Mrs. Jeanine Añez, they are trying to impose the directive of the Chamber of Deputies”, said MAS deputy Héctor Arce in a press conference, quoted by the newspaper Página Siete.

In particular, he has criticized the prolongation of the debate on the electoral census that has triggered an indefinite civic strike of the opposition in the province of Santa Cruz that has already accumulated 17 days.

“This debate is bland. It is already three days of discussing the census issue. It is dragging on to hide three things from the Government of Luis Arce and David Choquehuanca:

“They want to hide corruption, they want to hide the allegations of drug trafficking, and they want to minimize this fracture that there is MAS and in our organizations”, he has warned.

Héctor Arce has also lamented that in the two years of the legislature, the president of the Assembly has not discussed or debated with the opposition or given press conferences to defend the Government.

“I have not seen David Choquehuanca defend the bills or laws sanctioned. In two years, David Choquehuanca, president of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly, has not been able to elaborate on the legislative agenda, but he is very good at dividing.

“Today, he has fractured MAS in the Assembly; today, he is working to fracture our social organizations”, he said.

With information from Gaceta