Bolivia elections - 2019-2020 - Arce Victory

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Hopefully Morales wins the Runoff. Let this be a painful lesson that MAS needs to start delivering to the Bolivian people stat, starting with running new blood.

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I'm glad we avoided the pro-Morales coup, but this is looking more and more like an anti-Morales coup...

I mean, it’s not as if Adriana Salvatierra was forced to resign. She could be acting president right now if she wanted to.

Yeah, and then accidentally die from the crossfires of the police.

This is a blatant and violent power grab by the former rulers of Bolivia, sadly there exists no militias to restore democracy in Bolivia at the moment.

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Well things seem to be heating up

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There were some last minute changes as Choquehuanca has now been demoted to VP candidate, and Luis Arce Will be the presidential candidate in the Evo-approved and now totally official MAS ballot

Morales said that Andrónico Rodriguez (30) is too young (read: inexperienced) to be president and that he is surprised that Andrónico was leading the polls. Rodriguez also didn't assists to the meeting with Evo in Buenos Aires, citing security reasons, which may have influenced the final decision

If MAS loses because of the further damage from this spat, it’s going to be on Evo for losing the country to ruin.

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What good informative journalism from the Washington Post

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‘No evidence of fraud’ in Morales poll victory, say US researchers

A row over the legitimacy of Bolivia’s longest-serving leader, Evo Morales, has been reignited after researchers in the US questioned allegations that fraud was used to help the country’s leader of 14 years win the last election.

Writing in the Washington Post, the researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s election data and science lab have entered what has become a fraught debate about Morales’s legacy and whether he was forced to step down due to an attempt to manipulate the vote or, rather, pushed out as part of a military coup.

“There is not any statistical evidence of fraud that we can find,” wrote John Curiel and Jack R Williams, both from MIT, adding that the conclusions of an audit by the Organization of American States “would appear deeply flawed”.

So the only people contesting electoral fraud are the OAS, mired in connections with the American government, and local plantation and mining barons along with their “researchers“.

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Anez still the President & I wonder if she can somehow win the special election ?

They’re in the process of purging the civil service and putting their own people in, so I don’t doubt that they have the infrastructure to conduct voter fraud enough to win.

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https://twitter.com/OVargas52/status/1263519580682625024
Posts and stories processing the same thing have been circulating a while this past week or so. Hopefully democracy can be restored from the hands of the putschists.

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Lol I am so owned
Seriously, is there any other source for the claim that Añez is attempting a military coup?

I’ll try and find a news article on this that is definitive. Most I’ve heard and seen is from editorials and twitter personalities.

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Lol I am so owned
Seriously, is there any other source for the claim that Añez is attempting a military coup?

I’ll try and find a news article on this that is definitive. Most I’ve heard and seen is from editorials and twitter personalities.

Most sources I’ve seen that are not political editorializations or newsletters from socialist groups aren’t reporting on the political happenings of Bolivia. Still, what I am seeing is that the government has still refused to let an election be held even as the Congress of Bolivia and grassroots organizations demands it to be held in a timely manner.

Such groups include farmers organizations as seen in this editorialized piece here

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https://twitter.com/americaelige/status/1271529273937899520?s=21

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Will it be an election or an election type event?

We’ll find out the day of the polls.

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https://mobile.twitter.com/KawsachunNews/status/1310726637697282049

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So the right are a bit worried they might lose?

https://twitter.com/AmericaElige/status/1315488648410755072

It is quite plausible they won’t have to rig it that bad in order to get ahead in a second round.

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https://twitter.com/KawsachunNews/status/1317279180938203136?s=20

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Today we learned it was a coup after all and that Bolivians wanted socialism back.

The US doesn't put the same effort into regime change as they used to.

This is not exactly quite right. Morales, and the majority of his party, are social democrats apart of the same international as the Democratic Party. His tenure, while providing sweeping change, made Bolivia more attractive to FDI from the Cappy Core. Out of all this, the foreign elites and comprador porky still saw it more attractive to coup them. Huh, seems very discouraging to democrats and free talking points for establishing controlled systems like Cuba, don’t it?

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Something tells me General Kalimantan is going to be in a bit of trouble very soon.

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They all are quite charming in their own way, unlike how rare it is with career politicians from upper class backgrounds.

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Uhhhh. The % of precincts counted had reached 99.96% last night, but this morning it's been going down (99.86 a few hours ago, 99.79 now). Any clue what's going on with that?

Now 99.27%. Anyone know what's going on?

If I had to guess, they’re trying to ensure that MAS won’t have a senate supermajority

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MAS, both the left and right factions, made grave mistakes appeasing the multinationals and landowners. Given that these are small splits regionally, it shouldn’t matter much.