Bolivia: Evo Morales takes victory and obtains the necessary votes to avoid a second electoral round

The president of Bolivia achieves the necessary votes so that the country does not vote in a second electoral round and thus becomes the winner of Sunday’s elections, according to the count of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal with 99.99% of the vote.Evo Morales he achieved 47.07% of support, placing himself at 10.56% with respect to the opponent Carlos Mesa, who has obtained 36.51% of the ballots. The results are already final, since only 0.01% of the votes remain to be counted. The followers of Morales and Mesa have been in conflict for days in the streets of the country, even calling for two days of indefinite strike. The political uncertainty continues, and will make the demonstrations continue to take place. Despite the fact that the final results have now been known, Evo Morales had already proclaimed himself the winner of the general elections on several occasions. On the same Sunday he left the Burned Palace to speak of his victory when the votes from rural areas were yet to be known. The opposition has denounced an electoral “fraud” precisely because of these statements and have announced that the protests will continue until a second return, which was scheduled for December if no one got the necessary advantage. In addition, the opposition’s alarms went off when during the election night the Preliminary Electoral Results Transmission system stopped for more than 23 hours. When he returned, he produced a change in favor of the ruling party called “inexplicable” by many. While the demonstrations against Morales have already left eight injured, the president of the country has starred in a massive mobilization day in Cochabamba, where he has asked that he be stopped from label him a dictator and has ratified his victory.Mesa describes it as a “coup d’état” Former President Mesa assured as soon as he knew the official results with 99.99% of the votes that “the MAS had just carried out the fraud.” These statements were made in a video posted on social networks, where he added that the result is a “shameful and rude alteration of our vote” and asked his followers not to be discouraged and stay in action. Yes, minutes after posting the video During an interview on the CNN television network, Mesa ruled out that the opposition is going to ask for new elections to prevent Morales from remaining in government. “We are demanding the democratic right that they are trying to steal from us: to go to a second round,” he assures. “That, in any manual of political philosophy, is called a coup d’état. The one who is carrying out a coup, in fact, is President Evo Morales “, defended Mesa, who says that the MAS government” usurps functions “from the other powers of the State.