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He final vote count confirmed this Friday to Luis Arce, from the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), as the winner of the presidential elections in Bolivia, after five days of scrutiny.
He computation gave Arce 55.09 percent of the votes, over 50 percent plus one of the votes he needed to win in the first round.
He former president Carlos Mesa, from Comunidad Ciudadana, obtained 28.83 percent of the votes and Luis Fernando Camacho, from Creemos, on 14.
Chi Hyun Chung, from the Front for Victory, got 1.55 percent of the votes and Feliciano Mamami, of Pan-Bol, 0.52 percent.
The final count confirms Luis Arce as president-elect of Bolivia, awaiting the formal proclamation that the country’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal has scheduled in the afternoon, at a ceremony in La Paz.
Arce was already recognized as the winner by Mesa, the interim government of Jeanine Áñez and a large part of the international community, while Camacho said he would wait for the final count.
“We will not disappoint the trust of the people”
“Thank you my dear Bolivia!”, Arce reacted on his social networks.
“We receive this democratic mandate with great humility. Now our great challenge is to rebuild the homeland, regain stability and hope for all Bolivians “, said the president-elect, who promised We will not disappoint the trust of the people.
Thank you my darling #Bolivia! We receive this democratic mandate with great humility. Now our great challenge is to rebuild the Homeland, to regain stability and hope for all Bolivians. We will not disappoint the trust of the people. https://t.co/GSidBDdi7I
– Luis Arce Catacora (Lucho Arce) (@LuchoXBolivia) October 23, 2020
The end of a complex year
The leader of Creemos concentrates his vote in Santa Cruz, the largest and most populated region in Bolivia, as well as the economic engine of the country, where civic organizations with an important social weight have announced that they will not recognize the result and have called a strike for this Saturday against what they consider electoral fraud.
The elections were held last Sunday with a roll of about 7.3 million voters and a 87 percent share, with the vote that is mandatory for residents in the country and voluntary abroad.
The electoral body has recognized the slowness of the count, having given priority to the certainty of the result over the speed of the computation.
The elections to elect president, vice president, senators and deputies are repeated in Bolivia practically a year after those of October 20, 2019 were annulled, between allegations of fraud in favor of then-President Evo Morales, who had been declared the winner for a fourth consecutive term and who resigned, denouncing that he was forced to leave power by a coup.
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