Exit polls suggest Evo Morales’ left-wing party has made a spectacular political comeback in Bolivia’s presidential election, although official results are yet to come.
Two private polls suggest that Morales’ Movimento El Socializo (Mass) candidate, Luis Ars, won more than 50% of the vote on Sunday, with his closest rival, former center president Carlos Mesa, receiving about 0%.
The former finance minister under Moreles claimed victory in a late-night broadcast from Ars la Paz. “We’ve captured democracy and we’ve got hope from above,” said the 57-year-old UK-educated economist, widely known as Lucho.
Ars had vowed to end the uncertainty in his divided country since October 2019, when as a result of anti-suffrage claims against his party, people staged street protests, the presidential election was canceled and Morles was forced out of the country by security forces. Was. Its supporters call it a racist, right-wing uprising.
“We will rule for all Bolivians … we will bring unity to our country,” Ars said. Celebrity fireworks erupted around La Paz as news of the predicted victory spread.
Morales, who ran the election again despite living in exile in Argentina. Conducted “A big victory” for his party. Bolivia’s first indigenous president, a key member of Latin America’s left-wing pink tide who ruled from 2006 until his dramatic fall last year, tweeted, “Sisters and brothers: the will of the people prevails.”
Even Nemesis of Moreles, right-wing interim president Jeanine Inez admitted that the left side had come to the top. “We don’t have an official count yet, but the data we do show that Mr Ars [has] … Won the election. I congratulate the winners and call for Bolivia and democracy to prevail. ” Tweeted.
Latin American leftists, hoping Ars’s clear victory would help revive their fortunes, celebrated the result. “Bolivian people viva! Viva democracy! ” Tweeted Glacier Hoffman, President of the Brazilian Workers’ Party (PT).
Venezuela’s dictatorial leader, Nicolas Maduro, Tweeted: “A great victory! The people of United and Awake, Bolivia have used their votes to defeat the revolt against our brother Evo. ”
If confirmed, the victory would represent a sensational political battle for Mass, which was besieged last year when its leader was forced to leave the country after trying to secure an unprecedented fourth term as president.
Jim Schultz, founder of the Bolivia-based Democracy Center, said the kind of mandate he had when Iwo was first elected in 2005 was back.
It was a tedious reprimand for the outgoing Rousseau interim government, which came to power after the deportation of Morales. “It tells us that there is no widespread political support for writing in Bolivia – not even close,” Schultz said.
“Writing was given a chance to rule and it proved that he was only interested in his own power and self and hated the country’s indigenous and poor. They showed that they have legitimacy as they violate real human rights. And by overseeing liberation and becoming incapable and corrupt in their rule. And the people will not come. “
An exit poll indicated that the Arsenal had won a landslide victory in five of Bolivia’s nine divisions. The poll said Arsસેne received more than 65% of the vote in La Paz, 63% in Cochabamba, 62% in Ororo and 51% in Potos.
It may be several days before the official result is confirmed. On Monday morning, election officials said 34% went to Ars with about 15% of the vote count and about 44% went to Mesa.
Opponents of Mass’s claim are little more than puppets for the exiled former president of Bolivia, whom they suspect will now try to return home. But Arsસેnez publicly tried to distance himself from Morales during the campaign, and on Monday allies said the man who was preparing to become Bolivia’s next president was out of sight.
“Certainly, Evo will not interfere in the government of Brother Louis Ars,” said David Appa, a mass leader in the plateau city of El Tolo, above La Paz. “Kamaraj Evo Morales was the main element in his time, the main protagonist … [But] Now we believe that our partner should rest, while Brother Louis Ars takes the lead. “
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