Among the call of Evo Morales to cancel the vote and the dirty campaign on social networks, Bolivian voters define president this Sunday.
Some 7,937,138 citizens They will vote this Sunday, August 17 in the next 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 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) and 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.
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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.
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).
Source: Ambito
