A mob stoned and booed this Sunday the candidate for presidency Andronón Rodríguez after casting his vote in the political and trade union bastion of the former president Evo Moraleswhere he is considered a “traitor” for moving away from the former governor and postulating these general elections on his own.
Rodríguez came to vote at school José Carrascoin the municipality of Entre Ríos located in the Tropic of Cochabambathe fief of Morales (2006-2019) in the central region of Cochabambawith a delay because there was previously a minor explosion near that electoral enclosure.
When the president of the Senate also prepared to talk to the journalists who covered the vote, the people who were in the enclosure began to throw stones, according to EFE.
Before the attack, the candidate no longer made statements and left the Electoral College soon, on whose doors he was waiting for a vehicle that was also impacted by the stones, while the mob shouted “traitor.”
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The atmosphere in Entre Ríos It is tense, because Rodríguez He went to vote there was an explosion near the enclosure.
Witnesses reported to local media that a strong rumble was heard in the backyard of the school José Carrasco AND Special Force Police of Fight against crime (FELCC) arrived at the scene to take statements and investigate the incident.
Juan Carlos Camperothe prosecutor who has the case, reported to local media that “there is no material or personal damage” and added that “the vote is carried out normally.”
Rodríguez36 years, he is the best position candidate in the surveys, located between the third and fourth place, below the opponents Samuel Doria Medinaof the Unit Alliance, and the former president Jorge ‘Tuto’ Quiroga (2001-2002), from the Free Alliance, who could play an unprecedented second round.
The candidate of the Popular Alliance was considered the political heir of Evo Moralesbut decided to run on his own and the ex -president described him as “traitor.”
The candidate for the presidency of Bolivia Andronón Rodríguez for Alianza Popular voted this Sunday, in Entre Ríos (Bolivia). | Source: EFE | Photographer: Juan Carlos Torrej
Morales He does not participate in these elections for a constitutional provision that prevents him from returning to run because he already ruled the country in three periods and does not have a political party, so he promotes the null vote.
The campaign for the vote was intense in the tropics of Cochabamba And the people in Entre Ríos He warned that if that option is not a majority in that area, it will burn the electoral polls.
Elections in Bolivia
More than 7.5 million people The polls in Bolivian territory are called to choose the president, vice president, and the parliamentarians of the Legislative and others 369,308 citizens They will vote abroad.
The elections are developed in the middle of a strong economic crisis, marked by the lack of dollars, fuel shortage and the worst inflation in decades.
