Bolivia elections - 2019-2020 - Arce Victory

[Former President tack50]

Great! Now there needs to be a purge. Hopefully MAS will realize that establishing lasting socialism on a large scale without doing anything "authoritarian" is impossible.

Yes, Evo went from 61% to 47% in the past two elections because he wasn’t authoritarian enough. If he’d been more repressive he could have gone even higher.

I mean, technically yes? See: Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, etc

Of course the "real" approval would crater, but the election results would show Evo winning 99.9% or whatever

It would also be awful for the Bolivian people

[Former President tack50]

Great! Now there needs to be a purge. Hopefully MAS will realize that establishing lasting socialism on a large scale without doing anything "authoritarian" is impossible.

Yes, Evo went from 61% to 47% in the past two elections because he wasn’t authoritarian enough. If he’d been more repressive he could have gone even higher.

I mean, technically yes? See: Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, etc

Of course the "real" approval would crater, but the election results would show Evo winning 99.9% or whatever

It would also be awful for the Bolivian people

The best of all was Nasser: he managed to get 100.0% (rounded). Even among authoritarians I think it's quite a feat to get re-elected 7,000,000 for vs. 65 against.

I tend to prefer Saddam Hussein myself, who managed to get exactly 100% of the vote, with 100% turnout.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Iraqi_presidential_referendum

There is also the Liberian election of 1927, where the winner won 243000-9000; thanks to getting an insane 1680% turnout