Supporters of Bolivia's main opposition presidential candidate, former president Carlos Mesa, confront security forces standing guard outside the hotel where the Supreme Electoral Tribunal has its headquarters to count the election votes, in La Paz, on October 21, 2019.
Still, he claimed an outright victory late Sunday, saying the uncounted votes would be enough to give him a fourth term. He told supporters at the presidential palace that "the people again imposed their will." Mesa, who had warned earlier that there could be "manipulation of the vote to impede a second round" of voting, called on citizens and civic groups "to conduct a battle in defense of the vote."
Michael G Kozak, acting assistant secretary at the US State Department's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, said on Twitter that "the US rejects the Electoral Tribunal's attempts to subvert Bolivia's democracy by delaying the vote count." "There is a heightened risk of social unrest at the moment," Rodrigo Riaza, a research analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Economist Intelligence Unit, said earlier in the day.
Following a boom in commodities prices, Morales paved roads, sent Bolivia's first satellite to space and curbed inflation. Stadiums, markets, schools, state enterprises and even a village bear his name.
Well yeah, because his party has mess up the votes!! even the OAS has talk about his concern about this election!
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