Bolivia president agrees to paternity test in scandal involving ex-girlfriend
Bolivian President Evo Morales is willing to undergo a paternity test to settle a dispute with an ex-girlfriend whose child he denies fathering, news reports said on Monday, quoting his lawyer.
In a case that has plunged the 56-year-old leader into scandal, Morales had claimed he fathered a child with her which later died, before changing his story to say the child never existed.
A court ordered the leftist president to undergo a test to answer claims by his ex-partner Gabriela Zapata that he is indeed the father of her child.
“Evo Morales is a citizen who respects the law. If the authorities summon him, he will attend,” his lawyer Gaston Velasquez was quoted as saying by the newspaper Pagina Siete.
Morales took Zapata to court in March to make her prove the boy is alive.