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TCP 0084/2017 sets aside term limits citing the American Convention

On 28 November 2017 Bolivia’s Plurinational Constitutional Tribunal sitting en banc issued judgment 0084/2017 setting aside constitutional term limits for president, vice-president, governor, mayor and councillor, citing the American Convention on Human Rights. In the causal graph this event weakens Capacity for Peaceful Transfer of Power, a driver that weakens Political Stability and Absence of Violence Gap from the Highest Governance Score — a worsening welfare path.

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On 28 November 2017 Bolivia’s Plurinational Constitutional Tribunal sitting en banc issued judgment 0084/2017 setting aside constitutional term limits for president, vice-president, governor, mayor and councillor, citing the American Convention on Human Rights.

Context

MAS legislators had brought the challenge. He was the sitting president. He did not sit as a TCP magistrate.

21 February 2016 referendum is parent. 20 October 2019 election is a child. Keep TCP 0084/2017 sets aside term limits citing the American Convention on 2017-11-28 separate from neighbouring 21 February 2016 referendum, 28 November 2017 TCP 0084/2017, 10 November 2019 resignation, 14 November 2024 TCP MAS resolution, and 31 March 2025 EVO Pueblo.

The president of Bolivia was head of state, head of government, and commander-in-chief until November 2019. A living former president can convene a party congress and call blockades. He does not sit as a TCP magistrate, a TSE precinct printer, or an OAS auditor.

Why it matters

The path is capacity for peaceful transfer: a completed court override of a referendum NO.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Evo Morales

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    verified

    TCP magistrates wrote. MAS legislators asked. He was the beneficiary candidate.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.OAS EOM Bolivia 2019 preliminary report — records TCP 0084/2017 as the 2019-ticket parentOrganization of American States · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Tribunal Constitucional Plurinacional — November 2024 MAS-IPSP leadership neighbourhoodTribunal Constitucional Plurinacional of Bolivia · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

OAS later recorded that judgment as the legal parent of the 2019 Morales ticket.

Tribunal Constitucional Plurinacional of Bolivia carries the official instrument or communique. Organization of American States records the same dated act independently.

Established: TCP 0084/2017 set aside term limits on 28 November 2017; OAS recorded it as the parent of the 2019 ticket.

Not established: A unique later human-rights coefficient, or that the 2016 NO never happened.

MAS legislators asked. He was the beneficiary candidate.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies TCP 0084/2017 sets aside term limits citing the American Convention, not a later speech about TCP 0084/2017 sets aside term limits citing the American Convention.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to TCP magistrates wrote. MAS legislators asked. He was the beneficiary candidate. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorEvo Morales
  2. contributed toFactTCP 0084/2017 sets aside term limits citing the American Convention
  3. weakensDrivers (2)Capacity for Peaceful Transfer of Power
  4. weakensIndicatorPolitical Stability and Absence of Violence Gap from the Highest Governance Score

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Factrail. (2026). TCP 0084/2017 sets aside term limits citing the American Convention. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/bo-morales-tcp-0084-2017

https://factrail.ai/facts/bo-morales-tcp-0084-2017

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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