但玻利维亚宪法法院却裁定他可以参选，因为新通过的宪法将玻利维亚改名为多民族玻��维亚国；因此莫拉莱斯之前担任的是另一个国家的元首。
But Bolivia’s constitutional court has ruled that he can, because the adoption of a new constitution redefined the country as the Plurinational State of Bolivia; Morales, therefore, served his first term as the head of a different state.