Bolivia's President Evo Morales undergoes paternity test to settle dispute with ex-girlfriend Monday April 25,2016

 

Bolivian President Evo Morales underwent a paternity test Monday April 25,2016 to settle a dispute with an ex-girlfriend whose child he denies fathering, his lawyer said.

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.

"President Evo Morales, like any citizen and in compliance with the law, showed up and has taken the test that the judge arranged," his lawyer Gaston Velasquez said on television channel ATB.