Conflict erupted after Luis Arce and ex-president Evo Morales both showed interest in the party’s presidential nomination

Bolivia’s president Luis Arce has been expelled from his own party, amid a bitter struggle with the former president, Evo Morales, to lead the party into the 2025 election.

According to a resolution passed at the congress of the Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas) on Wednesday, Arce “expelled himself” from the party by not appearing at the meeting yesterday in the department of Cochabamba.