Bolivia's electoral court bans ex-leader Morales and suspends a key a candidate, drawing backlash
The decision targeted the two strongest leftist challengers to President Luis Arce's governing socialist party : Morales, Bolivia's first Indigenous president who governed the country from 2006 until his ouster in 2019, and Andrónico Rodríguez, the young Senate president.
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