“Democracia sí, dictadura no”. Acción colectiva y nuevas derechas ante la reelección indefinida en Bolivia y Ecuador

This article compares the protests that arose in response to constitutional reforms seeking to enable indefinite reelection in Bolivia and Ecuador during the administrations of Evo Morales and Rafael Correa, respectively. Using a qualitative-comparative approach and analyzing more than 450 events published in the digital press, the article identifies and classifies the repertoires of collective action deployed by opposition actors in these countries. Based on Charles Tilly’s concepts of repertoires and contentious performances and the contributions of Donatella della Porta and Pablo Stefanoni, the text examines how forms of protest – from marches, town hall meetings, and blockades to media campaigns and constitutional litigation – articulated discourses of democratic defense and reconfigured the political field in Bolivia and Ecuador. It concludes that these repertoires not only expressed resistance to continuity but also functioned as mechanisms of ideological and social reorganization that enabled the emergence of new right-wing movements legitimized by citizenship and the defense of voting rights and democracy.