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The Supreme Electoral Tribunal gave narrow, technical reasons for the decisions as the window closed for candidates to register their political parties.and finance minister, President Arce, has fractured their dominant Movement Toward Socialism party, or MAS, forcing Morales to break off and create his own political party.

Arce, whose popularity has plunged as inflation surges and fuel shortages paralyze the country,last week and nominated his senior minister, Eduardo del Castillo, as the MAS party candidate.A stern-faced lawyer and loyalist of Arce who oversaw

over the last year, Del Castillo has struggled to summon the kind of support enjoyed by Morales and Rodríguez.Divisions are also splitting the vote on the right, which has left the anti-MAS movement without a clear front-runner to seize on what could otherwise be the opposition’s first real shot at victory after almost two decades of left-wing rule.

According to the list published Tuesday by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, the successfully registered opposition candidates include Samuel Doria Medina, 66, a former cement tycoon notorious for his multiple unsuccessful presidential bids.

There’s also Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, who promoted market-friendly reforms as president from 2001-2002 after serving as vice president to the late military dictator, Hugo Banzer, in a government accused of widespread human rights abuses.DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) —

said that he expects hundreds of thousands of self-driving Teslas will be on the road requiring no human intervention by the end of next year and that he is committed to staying as CEO of the company for at least another five years.The billionaire also said in a pair of interviews on Tuesday that he has no regrets about leading the job-slashing Department of Government Efficiency under the Trump administration. He downplayed any damage to the Tesla brand from that role, saying demand for Teslas has experienced a “major rebound.” That’s potentially a big development given that the latest public sales figures from Europe and U.S. show steep declines in sales for several months running.

“We’ll probably have hundreds of thousands, if not over a million, Teslas doing self-driving in the U.S.,” Musk said in an CNBC interview Tuesday, adding that passengers won’t need to pay attention to the road. “Like you’re asleep and you wake up at your destination.”His comment about sticking around as CEO was made earlier in the day at the Qatar Economic Forum hosted by Bloomberg.