Some 7,937,138 citizens They will vote this Sunday, August 17 at Presidential elections in Bolivia. After decades of electoral triumphs, the MOVEMENT TO SOCIALISM (MAS) It seems destined to lose his leadership, after the conflict of his two main leaders: the former president Evo Morales And the current president Luis Arce.
In most of the country, voters were able to issue their decision without major complications. The only point of tension was in the region called “The Tropic of Cochabamba”, a key bastion of Morales. The local newspaper El duty reported: “Suddenly they began to throw stones, everything was very fast and violent. I am looking for our photographer, that for all this mess we were separated.”
In the polarization climate, none of the Eight presidential candidates would exceed 25% of the votes, so a ballot dated for him October 19. To avoid this, some of the applicants should pass 50% or at least 40% but have more than 10% difference with the second. The inauguration will be specified by the November 8 and will extend until 2030.
The key to the election will revolve around the will of three districts that concentrate more than 70% of the electorate: Santa Cruz (2,071,967 voters), La Paz (2.047.825) y Cochabamba (1,443,013). The electoral definition in Bolivia is crossed by the request for abstentionism or annuling the vote he made Evo Moraleswhich claims that the rejection of the judicial ruling that made it impossible for him to be expressed at the polls around 30% of the participants.
Bolivia reaches these elections in the middle of the worse economic crisis in decades, with high inflation, shortage of fuels and prices of food fired, which generates social tension and concern for the country’s ability to sustain the growth and stability of the productive sector.
To that boycott the warnings for dirty campaign of the three main presidential candidates were added. Andrónico Rodríguezby case, he suffered the intervention of his social networks. “We regret that the dirty war and the lack of regulation in the networks allow this type of attack,” he wrote when recovering control of his accounts.
In the same way it expressed itself Samuel Doria Medina: “The dirty war has intensified in electoral silence, taking advantage of the lack of regulation of social networks in electoral campaign time. Dozens of lies circulate at the same time and every hour are invented more. There are several teams from different political sectors working against us “.
The other applicant with chances, Jorge Quirogahe loaded against Evo Morales: “The depraved fraudulent is very angry and fills me with insults and lies. […] This coward hides justice, blocks the bioceanic road and an airport to evade justice. With the next government everything will change: no one can evade justice. His time ended, his cycle ended. “
Elections in Bolivia: Who are the candidates
In total, there will be eight presidential candidates competing on August 17 in Bolivia to reach the presidency of the Nation. Among them, those that appear with the greatest solidity of the will to vote in the surveys are Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga (Free), who was president of the country between 2001 and 2002, and the businessman Samuel Doria Medina (Unit Alliance).
Among the representatives linked to the left, who appears as a possible successor of evism is Andrónico Rodríguez (Popular Alliance), a 36 -year -old cocalero leader presided by the National Senate. The official movement to socialism will apply for the former Minister of Government, Eduardo del Castillowho was Luis Arce’s official until this year.
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The statist model that applied Morales (2006-2019) and that Arce followed is exhausted, and the economic crisis, with a fiscal deficit close to the 10% of GDPgenerated fuel shortage, food shortages and paralysis of productive sectors. This tension the electoral campaign and increases polarization among voters.
The other candidates who run are the mayor of the city of El Alto, Eva Cup (Morena party); His pair of Cochabamba, Manfred Reyes (Autonomy for Bolivia); The mayor, but of Santa Cruz, Jhonny Fernández (Force of the people); and the senator and son of former president Jaime Paz Zamora, Rodrigo Paz Pereira (Christian Democratic Party).
For the first time in two decades, Evo Morales He will not be on the ballot after a ruling of the Constitutional Court that disabled him to seek re -election. Their supporters drive the vote null and threaten to boycott the elections in the Chapare region, while the internal dispute with Arce weakened the MAS and dispersed the left vote.
Arce highlighted democracy as a legacy of its management
The president of Bolivia, Luis Arcehe said that “Recover democracy” It will be the best inheritance of your government. After issuing his vote in La Paz, he said he will respect the calendar of the Supreme Electoral Court and that he will deliver the command next November 8 to the candidate winning the elections.
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About 8 million citizens were summoned this Sunday to the polls to elect president, vice president and parliamentarians. The day occurs in a context of wear for the ruling party, which faces the worst inflation in decades, lack of dollars and shortage of fuels.
Arce resigned to seek re -election with the most And he supported the Interior Minister Eduardo del Castillo, although the polls place him lagging against opponents such as Samuel Doria, Jorge Quiroga and Manfred Reyes, in addition to the leftist Andrónico Rodríguez, who appears better positioned in the surveys.
