00:00A sort of rumor campaign by the political opposition about an alleged plan to postpone
00:05the August national elections led the Supreme Electoral Tribunal to repeat its commitment
00:09that the elections will be held on the scheduled date.
00:16The Supreme Electoral Court has a firm time, and again, that the general elections scheduled
00:22for this administration will be held on August 17 of this year.
00:33The rumor was based on what happened in last year's judicial elections when the elections
00:36were torpedoed by the constitutional court, which not only postponed them, but also, in
00:41the face of several lawsuits, authorized them to be held partially.
00:51We, the magistrates of the constitutional court, give our faith, we give our commitment,
00:55and we give certainty to the Bolivian people for the realization of this electoral process,
01:05for the fulfillment of this electoral process, and to process the appeals with celerity,
01:09and without the processing of these appeals meaning the postponement, or slowing down of
01:13the election of August 17 of this year.
01:20Analyst Susana Bejarano described as shameful that a state power such as the electoral tribunal
01:26asks the judiciary not to interfere, but the commitments of both give back certainty.
01:36It's already a common sense in society that the elections are going to be held, and if
01:40they were not held, it would be like lighting the fuse to a gunpowder that is already spread
01:43in the country, because as you know, the fact that there's been a lack of fuel, the inflation
01:53we are experiencing after two decades and all these situations have generated, whether you
01:57like it or not, a tension in the population.
02:03It is the opposition sectors themselves, who spread rumors about an alleged attempt by the
02:09government to extend the deadline for the elections, who encourage uncertainty by filing lawsuits
02:14before the judiciary that could affect the date of the elections.
02:17If you make a review of who are the people in the framework of those five rulings that have
02:25put that question, you are going to see elections, they are going to be suspended because now there
02:29are some rulings.
02:30Four of them are people who belong to the opposition bloc, to the anti-movement for socialism bloc.
02:34Although they are dressed as indigenous people, they have been systematically against the movement
02:38for socialism.
02:39The national elections have been officially called for next August 17th.
02:52The electoral calendar is already smooth and determines that whoever wins these elections
02:55will take office at the beginning of November of this year.
02:59The registration of candidates will take place in mid-May.
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