Evo Morales overturned the ballot and is about to be re-elected; miracle?

[Akrapovic]

Bolivia's president would win in the first round, says 95% scrutiny of Sunday's general election minutes, according to the electoral body.

The rapid minutes count (Trep), resumed at the end of Monday afternoon, gave Morales (59 years old) 46.87% and the opponent Carlos Mesa 36.73% with 95.30% of verified records, and put the leftist president on the verge of avoiding a second round with his main rival.

However, a climate of suspicion prevailed because the Plurinational Electoral Body (EPO) suspended the vote counting on a fast Trep count on Sunday night, which was resumed after almost 20 hours of paralysis.

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Even when half the votes had been scrutinized, the candidate Carlos Mesa obtained 42.61% of the votes, against 42.45% of Evo Morales.

    To avoid questioning, Foreign Minister Diego Pary and the OAS veterans "agreed to establish a permanent support team in the process of official vote counting" of the elections, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia reported on Twitter.

The agreement follows a public call from Pary to foreign agencies and embassies in the country to follow the count "so that the process concludes with all the necessary transparency", after the opposition candidate and former president Carlos Mesa accused the government of "mani[CENSORED]ting ”The result of the elections to avoid a ballot.

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Hours later, the OAS tweeted that "rejects the interruption of the final count" in the region of Potosí, where protests began against the electoral tribunal, accused of lack of transparency. The protests then extended to La Paz (west), Santa Cruz (east) and other smaller cities.

Mesa, who ruled between 2003 and 2005, denounced to the OAS observers that the electoral body "arbitrarily interrupted" the count and demanded that "in the course of the day we know the final result that is none other than that of a second round" .