London, UK. 20th January 2018. Bolivians protest in Parliament Square against President Evo Morales having won a Supreme Court appeal which will allow him to run for a fourth term in 2019. Earlier a referendum had voted down the constitutional change, but the government argued it had lost because of an illegal defamatory campaign against Morales. He is the country's first indigenous leader, in office since 2006, and says he needs more time in power in order to consolidate his party's programme of of social reforms. The protesters accuse him of wanting to be a dictator and abandoning democrac
London, UK. 20th January 2018. Bolivians protest in Parliament Square against President Evo Morales having won a Supreme Court appeal which will allow him to run for a fourth term in 2019. Earlier a referendum had voted down the constitutional change, but the government argued it had lost because of an illegal defamatory campaign against Morales. He is the country's first indigenous leader, in office since 2006, and says he needs more time in power in order to consolidate his party's programme of of social reforms. The protesters accuse him of wanting to be a dictator and abandoning democracy. The protest also condemned the revised penal code signed in December. Among other things this provides provision for legal abortions, but journalists fear it endangers their freedom of expression and some other professions are worried about the sanctions it provides against professional miscounduct.
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