Bolivia Election 2020 Candidates

Bolivian presidential candidate luis arce center and running mate david choquehuanca second right celebrate during a news conference monday in la paz bolivia.

Bolivia election 2020 candidates. Luis arce the socialist party candidate is getting congratulatory messages in bolivia s presidential election. Exit polls indicate socialist candidate luis arce will become bolivia s next president. Bolivian socialist candidate set to win election outright rapid count shows by reuters wire service content oct.

After midnight on sunday bolivian authorities allowed the results of the exit polls to be known. The andean country held the news spotlight as a result of the controversial presidential election in which incumbent evo morales emerged as the winner after a nearly 24 hour vote count freeze. The movement towards socialism mas presidential candidate luis arce obtained 52 4 percent of the votes the citizen community cc candidate carlos mesa got 31 5 percent and the we believe alliance candidate luis fernando camacho reached 14 1.

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Bolivia s socialist candidate luis arce is set to win the country s presidential election without the need for a run off an unofficial rapid count of the vote indicated which would usher the. Luis arce of the movement for socialism mas party was elected president in a landslide winning 55 of the vote and securing majorities in both chambers of the plurinational legislative assembly the results of the election superseded the disputed. Amid concerns of election fraud protests broke out across the country.

After a preliminary organization of american states oas election. Bolivia s special election keeps getting more complicated. Luis arce the candidate for the party of bolivia s former socialist president evo morales could win next month s election in the first round with opposition to him.

The peaceful vote signaled an end to a year of electoral uncertainty but the victor.