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    Socialist Presidential Candidate Arce Wins Bolivia's Elections Archived Message

    Posted by sashimi on October 19, 2020, 9:18 am

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    The Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) won with 52.4 percent over the
    parties that were backed by the right-wing interim regime.


    After midnight on Sunday, the Bolivian authorities officially
    announced that the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) presidential
    candidate Luis Arce obtained 52.4 percent of the votes, the Citizen
    Community (CC) candidate Carlos Mesa got 31.5 percent, and the "We
    Believe Alliance" candidate Luis Fernando Camacho reached 14.1 percent
    of the votes.

    Bolivia's president-elect Arce thanked the people for their support
    and for their peaceful participation in the electoral process.

    "We have recovered democracy and hope. We ratify our commitment to
    work with social organizations. We are going to build a national unity
    government."

    Previously, the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) spokesperson
    Sebastian Mitchell made an official statement regarding the absence of
    definitive data on the elections. He said that mainstream media and
    exit-polls companies know that Socialist candidate Arce had already
    exceeded 45 percent of the votes.

    "Election observers do not understand if the absence of information
    results from inefficiency or if the government is implementing a
    strategy to win two or three days, generate violence, and justify a
    military intervention," Mitchell said.

    The Bolivian Socialists' message was categorical and clear: "we call
    on the community to avoid provocations... let's end this nightmare we
    have been living for a year."

    A few minutes before the official information was issued, former
    President Evo Morales, who remains a political asylee in Argentina,
    recalled that millions of Bolivians cast their vote peacefully and
    demanded that the coup-born regime led by Jeanine Aņez respect the
    results.

    "Yesterday we denounced that the authorities suspended the
    presentation of the results of the exit poll companies. That was
    suspicious," the Socialist leader said

    "Everything indicates that the MAS has won the elections and won a
    majority of seats in both chambers."
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    -- https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Socialist-Presidential-Candidate-Arce-Wins-Bolivias-Elections-20201018-0018.html

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