Bolivians pick between Evo Morales and change in tight vote

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South America's longest-serving leader was seeking an unprecedented fourth term in Bolivian elections on Sunday, but polls suggested Evo Morales is in the tightest race of his career.

The 59-year-old leftist, who cast his vote shortly after polls opened, was favoured to win the first round vote, but he was likely to be forced into a December runoff where he could be vulnerable to a united opposition.

But Morales also has faced growing dissatisfaction even among his indigenous supporters. Some are frustrated by corruption scandals linked to his administration -- though not Morales himself -- and many by his refusal to accept a referendum on limiting presidential terms. While Bolivians voted to maintain term limits in 2016, the country's top court -- seen by critics as friendly to the president -- ruled that limits would violate Morales' political rights as a citizen.

"He did very well those four years. ... in his second term there were problems of corruption, drug trafficking, nepotism and other strange things" that led Parra to vote against repealing term limits in the 2016 referendum. "He hasn't respected that. That is the principle reason that I'm not going to vote for Evo Morales."

 

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