LA PAZ: Bolivian President Luis Arce said yesterday that he will not run for re-election in elections this August.
In an address to the South American nation, the leftist Arce said he did not want to contribute to dividing the vote in the election and helping a right-wing candidate win.
Bolivia’s left is divided, with Arce and former president Evo Morales commanding support from different factions of the ruling and long-dominant Movement to Socialism party.
Andronico Rodriguez, the young president of Bolivia’s Senate and Morales’s heir apparent, has announced his candidacy in the August race. Morales is constitutionally prohibited from running again.