EL ALTO, Bolivia (AP) — Barred from appearing on Sunday’s ballot, former leftist president Evo Morales has launched a scrappy campaign for a presidential contender with no name, no face and no formal platform.

The contender’s known as “Nulo” — Spanish for the null-and-void vote.

Nulo has a reliable base in Bolivia, where voting is compulsory. For many years, voters disillusioned with Morales’ increasingly high-handed attempts to prolong his presidency over three consecutive terms defaced their ballots or left them blank.

Supporters of Morales to declare their votes null

But with the coca-farming union leader disqualified from the race and seeking to distance himself from the unpopular President Luis Arce and other leftists associated with Bolivia’s worst economic crisis in four decades

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