La Paz: Bolivia's choice in this Sunday's general election is to become an economic power or to back down like the crab, said the Minister of the Presidency, Juan Ramón Quintana, Prensa Latina publishes.
Quintana assured that with Evo Morales as president until 2025 the Plurinational State has the destiny of becoming one of the greatest powers in Latin America.
The South American nation will attend the polls this October 20 to elect 352 national authorities, president, vice president, 36 senators, 130 deputies and nine representatives before supra-state agencies, each with their respective alternates.
In dispute are the votes of seven million 315 thousand 364 people, of which six million 974 thousand 363 are entitled to vote in the national territory and 341 thousand one abroad.
On the one hand, the Movement to Socialism-Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples (MAS-IPSP) proposes a program called the Bicentennial Agenda (to be commemorated in 2025), with 13 pillars, which it defined in a national debate with all sectors of the society.
These goals are the elimination of poverty, socialization and universalization of basic services with sovereignty to live well; health, education and sport for the formation of an integral human being, scientific and technological sovereignty with its own identity.
Other objectives are financial community sovereignty without servility to financial capitalism; productive sovereignty with diversification and integral development without the dictatorship of the capitalist market.
The agenda also includes the 'sovereignty over our natural resources with nationalization, industrialization and commercialization in harmony and balance with Mother Earth', food sovereignty through the construction of knowing how to feed to live well.
Likewise, the MAS-IPSP program refers to environmental sovereignty with integral development and respect for the rights of Mother Earth in international legislation, treaties and agreements, in addition to the complementary integration of peoples with sovereignty.
In the creation of the bases to achieve these objectives, in 13 years of government, the MAS-IPSP only through the program Bolivia Cambia Evo Complies, executed between 2007 and 2018, more than eight thousand 797 works in the areas of education, sports, road , productive, basic sanitation and irrigation, as well as in social and health infrastructure.
Along with these results, Bolivia established agreements with Peru, Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil to export hydrocarbons and electricity to border areas of those nations.
Such results and economic growth that placed the country as the first in South America consecutively in the last five years, show that Bolivia reaches its general elections in a situation different from its neighboring Argentina, overwhelmed by economic, political and social instability, victim of neoliberal politics.
THE CONTRARY SIDE
According to the most recent surveys, there are three opposition groups with the possibility of maintaining their legal status in these elections, with a vote of more than three percent required.
They are a Citizen Community, represented by Carlos Mesa; Bolivia Says No, headed by Oscar Ortiz, and the Christian Democratic Party, whose candidate is the surgeon by profession and evangelist pastor of Korean origin, Chi HyunChung.
With various nuances, these three presidential candidates are shown as new faces, but in reality they constitute expressions of the neoliberalism that today fails in countries such as Ecuador, Chile, or Brazil.
All of them promise prosperity through the facilitation of individual efforts and an openness to internal and transnational investments (privatizations), minimizing the presence of the State and free trade.
From the political point of view, they suggest joining the so-called Lima Group, related to the interventionist policies of the United States in Latin America.
On the social level, they hide the purpose of privatizing health and education with the expression that they must be 'a service' that must be charged to raise their quality, contrary to the concept advocated by Evo Morales and the MAS-IPSP, who insist in considering these benefits as a right of all citizens.
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