Evo Morales offers to sit out Bolivia’s next election if he can finish term

MEXICO CITY—Evo Morales, the exiled former president of Bolivia, said he is willing to sit out the country’s next presidential election if he can finish the last few months of his term and, together with the opposition, name a new electoral authority to oversee a fresh vote to choose a new leader.

In an interview Tuesday Nov. 19 with The Wall Street Journal, the former Bolivian leader laid out what he said was a compromise solution to end the country’s political crisis, which began when the opposition and international observers accused…