The Constitution of Bolivia stated that a person can only run for one term as president. However,
President Evo Morales went to the Constitutional Court so that he could run for
a fourth term in office.
After Mr. Morales was elected in
2005 he called a Constitutional Assembly, which
provided him with what he needed to run for two more terms. Then, in 2016, a referendum allowed him to
run for a third term.
However, in 2017 he presented his
case to the Constitutional Court, and the
court ruled that it was a human right violation to have a term limit as to how
many times a person can run for the office of a president. Therefore, they threw out the time
limit. The country no longer has a term limit as to how many times a person
could run for the presidency.
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