Dissatisfied right-wing voters protest in Bolivia



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Left-wing candidate Luis Arce, who is heading to a landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election, during an interview in La Paz on Tuesday.

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Left-wing candidate Luis Arce, who is heading to a landslide victory in Sunday’s presidential election, during an interview in La Paz on Tuesday.

Protests have broken out in several Bolivian cities, where Socialist Party candidate Luis Arce is heading for a landslide victory in Sunday’s presidential election.

Polls from polling stations have shown support of just over 50 percent for Arce. The figures appear to be confirmed by the official vote count. With 86 percent counted, Arce has 54 percent of the vote.

In second place, the candidate of the center Carlos Mesa gets 29.5 percent, followed by the right-wing radical Luis Fernando Camacho with 14.4 percent.

The generally faster counting process is being carried out more slowly after last year’s controversial elections, the consequences of which led to the resignation of former president and leader of Mas, Evo Morales.

“Traps!” The protesters chant in the Camacho bastion, Santa Cruz, report Bolivian media. The protesters have also gathered, among other things, in front of the headquarters of the electoral authority in Cochabamba.

“We are going through moments of uncertainty generated by a very bad management of the electoral process,” Camacho wrote on social networks.

Carlos Mesa, for his part, has admitted defeat. The UN Secretary General, António Guterres, who congratulated Bolivia for a peaceful electoral process, has asked the country’s politicians to work for national reconciliation.

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