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Bolivia – A Change in the Terms

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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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/world/americas/bolivia-evo-reelection.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FBolivia&action=click&contentCollection=world&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=3&pgtype=collection

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