La Paz: The massive support for the ruling Al Socialism Movement (MAS) with a view to the October general elections stands out today among the issues of the week that ends in Bolivia, while the opposition is the target of numerous criticisms, Prensa Latina publishes.
This Friday, the binomial of President Evo Morales and Vice President Álvaro García Linera, candidates of the MAS for the elections of October 20 in this country, received massive support during a rally in the city of Santa Cruz (east).
Several sectors of different departments, including young people, university students, rectors of public universities, private entrepreneurs, workers and peasants participated in the act of support for the economic and social policies promoted by the current Government in its 13 years of management.
They also reiterated their support for the Bicentennial Agenda, as the MAS binomial development program for 2025 is known, in tribute to the 200th anniversary of the founding of this South American nation.
The program has 13 fundamental pillars, including eliminating extreme poverty, socialization and universalization of basic services, improvement of health, education and sports, scientific and technological sovereignty, and financial community sovereignty.
Morales reiterated his confidence in the people's support to win the October general elections and continue with the Change Process promoted since 2006 in this South American nation.
On the other hand, the opposition candidate Carlos Mesa, representative of the Community Community (CC) party receives numerous criticisms for his political past and inconsistencies in the current campaign.
In recent days, Mauricio Balcázar, ex-spokesman and son-in-law of former president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (fugitive from justice and refugee in the United States), reiterated the accusations to Mesa of receiving more than one million dollars for his candidacy for vice president in the elections of 2002.
Mesa avoided responding to that complaint and declared himself a victim of an alleged war promoted by relatives of Sánchez de Lozada, the opposition candidate for the Bolivia Dice No alliance, Oscar Ortiz, and the MAS.
This week, also the senator for the MAS, Rubén Medinacelli, rejected the statements of opposition candidates in Bolivia in favor of the capitalization and privatization of strategic companies, a process that caused losses to the country for more than 21 billion dollars.
Medinacelli described presidential candidates Carlos Mesa and Víctor Hugo Cárdenas as flatterers of that process.
Mesa stated in its Government plan presented to the Supreme Electoral Court 'no more half-industrialization, without capital or cutting-edge technology'.
A survey conducted by the company CiesMori, commissioned by the newspaper El Debe, placed Morales in the electoral preference with 39 percent for young people between 18 and 25 years of age.
His closest opponent was Carlos Mesa, with 29 percent, and Oscar Ortiz took third place with just nine percent, while the other six opposition contenders appear with a support between 3.0 to 0.3 percent.
As the Minister of the Presidency, Juan Ramón Quintana, expressed in the general elections of October, the Bolivians will choose between the permanence of the Plurinational State fully functioning or will choose the setback that would imply retaking the neoliberal formulas, turning Bolivia into a nation for dispossession, generating instability even in the region.
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