Reply #11: An MNR Move to Hold onto Power? [View All]

[CHIMO]

Okay, the chess game of these "tal vez" December elections in Bolivia is getting pretty complicated to follow. However, there is another theory floating about that could well be plausible – What is underway is a skilled move by the on-its-deathbed MNR to hold on to power. Here's how it works:

To be clear, a scenario by which the MNR takes the Presidency through suspension of elections will be greeted about as warmly by Bolivia's social movements as Baptist fundamentalists might welcome a transvestite bishop. If the MNR really is pondering such a move it must be carefully weighing how much turmoil it is willing to provoke in order to retake power. I can't imagine anyone sane being willing to do this to Bolivia. But political ambition has trumped sanity in more countries than this one.

http://www.democracyctr.org/blog/2005/09/mnr-move-to-hold-onto-power.html