MEXICO CITY.- This Monday, during his usual morning press conference, the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardolamented the internal division between the progressive forces in Boliviaafter the Rodrigo Paz Pereira’s victoryin the second round of the presidential elections of the South American country, and affirmed that unity is essential for the transformation movements in Latin America.
“From the perspective of the progressive movements in Latin America, it is a shame that they have been divided there in Bolivia,” said the president, when asked about the Bolivian elections.
Second electoral round in Bolivia
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Claudia Sheinbaum’s reaction occurs after Sunday Rodrigo Paz Pereira won with 54.61% of the votes compared to the 45.39% that the former right-wing president obtained Jorge Tuto Quirogaaccording to the preliminary calculation of the Supreme Electoral Courtwith 97.86% of the minutes processed.
Paz Pereira’s victory ended an era of two decades of leftist governments in the Andean country.
Progressive movements in Latin America
Claudia Sheinbaum, who came to power driven by the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), defended that internal cohesion is key to maintaining popular support.
“For our movement, unity is very important. Sometimes that is minimized,” he said, warning that political fragmentation usually weakens government projects.
“Speaking politically about the transformation movement, it is very important to remain in unity because when you divide, that is when you lose strength with the people, with the people,” he added.
The president did not mention specific Bolivian candidates or parties, but her statements came after Sunday’s elections in Bolivia, in the midst of the rift between sectors of the Movement to Socialism (MAS), which governed under the leadership of Evo Morales.
Mexico has historically supported left-wing governments in the region and Claudia Sheinbaum has reiterated her support for Latin American integration from a progressive vision.
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The future new Bolivian president, Rodrigo Paz, will take office on November 8 to replace Luis Arcefrom the Movement towards Socialism (MAS), a party that has governed since 2006, except for the brief period of the president Jeanine Anez (2019-2020).
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