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Bolivia: Assembly backs Morales 4th term

by Our Foreign Desk

MEMBERS of Bolivia’s legislative assembly voted overwhelmingly at the weekend to approve a constitutional amendment that would allow President Evo Morales to seek a fourth term in 2020.

The measure was backed by a 112-41 vote and will now be submitted to voters in a national referendum in February 2016.

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