More than 1.2 million Bolivians invalidated their vote, something that marks a historical record and reinforces its political validity despite its proscription.
The former president Evo Morales celebrated the historical result achieved by the Null votethat reached 19.2% in the presidential elections of Bolivia, after his call to protest the judicial decision that left him out of the contest. More than 1.2 million citizens invalidated their vote, an unpublished figure in the electoral history of the country.
“Our protest was felt: we voted, but we did not choose, and the people made it clear that democracy cannot be reduced to a simple administrative transit”Morales wrote in his X account on Monday, after knowing the first results.
The official computation, with 95% of the accounted vote, indicated that the null vote reached 1.2 million accessions. In comparison, in the six presidential elections since 2002, the percentage of annulled votes had oscillated between 2.4% and 3.7%, which underlines the exceptional nature of Sunday.
In parallel, the center -right senator Rodrigo Paz He obtained the greatest vote, with 32.1%, and will face the right -wing ex -president in the second round Jorge Quirogawhich reached 26.8%. He Balotage is scheduled for October 19.
Rodrigo Paz Pereira
EFE
The situation of Evo Morales in Bolivia
Morales, 65, sought to compete for a new mandate, but a judicial ruling that limits the reelections left him out of the contest. Since October he has been a small town in the Tropic of Cochabambain custody of an indigenous guard, while facing an arrest warrant for alleged trafficking, accusation that he rejects.
In Cochabambaits political bastion, the null vote reached an even greater peak, with the 32.8% of the votes and more than 400,000 votes.
The former president also maintains an open dispute with his ex -ally, the current president Luis Arcefor the control of the MOVEMENT TO SOCIALISM (MAS). That intern resulted in the fracture of the left and in the resignation of Morales to the party that led for two decades.
The political scientist Daniel Valverdeprofessor at Gabriel René Moreno University, he pointed to AFP that if Morales manages to capitalize on the protest “Probably in a medium term you can make a popular block again, your political project. “He added:”There is no doubt that he will be in force in the next time, he will be an actor. But seeing his profile, it seems that it is not to play democracy, but to obstruction, to the blockade”
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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Arce resigned to seek re -election with the most And he supported the Interior Minister, Eduardo del Castillowho received just 2.5% of the votes.
Source: Ambito
