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Bolivian president addresses half-empty plenary

Bolivian president Evo Morales defended his policies on the nationalisation of the energy sector and support for coca farming in an address to MEPs on Monday (15 May), with the biggest centre-right group walking out in protest before his speech.

"This political moment is a moment of socialism," Mr Morales told the Strasbourg plenary, with only the left part of the forum filled with MEPs, who applauded as he spoke of his life-long fight to help the poor and discriminated in his home coun...

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