Evo Morales denounces an attempted coup d'etat …

The President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, denounced that ean attempted coup d'etat is underway Orchestrated from the right. In turn, he stated that the country is in state of emergency and makes a call on international organizations to defend democracy Bolivian Wednesday afternoon, a Massive march for the Bolivian president, who copied downtown La Paz. The opposition also organized its biggest protest in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. final final exam which seems oriented towards confirm the victory in the first round of Socialist Movement (MAS), avoid ballot papers. The Organization of American States (OAS) he asked the government to go beyond the outcome of the elections call of the ballot papers.

Evo Morales felt that the opposition protests motivated by the delay in the dissemination of the final results were part of an attempted coup d'etat. "How does it express the coup d'etat? They do not let count the elections.They set fire to state institutions such as the infrastructure of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal in the departments (provinces)," he said. declared Morales, of the burned palace, seat of the Bolivian government. So, he evoked the attacks suffered in recent days by the electoral bodies in some provinces like Chuquisaca and Potosí. It is in these places that delays in handing over the minutes extending the final examination have been recorded. "I'm sure that with the votes of rural areas we will win in the first round"Said the MAS chief. He called on his supporters to remain in the state of emergency and not to respond to the provocations of the Bolivian right and international.

Hundreds of peasants, miners, natives, trade unionists and state officials traveled to the Plaza Mayor of San Francisco with the Bolivian flags and the Official Movement for Socialism (MAS), in support of Morales. The leaders who spoke they demanded respect for their votes in support of the president, they issued warnings against the right of the opposition, supposed to ignore Morales' victory in the first round. "The workers, the peasants, the inhabitants of the urban neighborhoods, those who voted for Evo, will defend this process and will do it peacefully, with massive concentrations in which all the sectors are located," said the deputy minister of Coordination of social movements, Alfredo Rada. There were moments of tension between those who walked and some citizens who nodded or whistled, although the incidents did not turn to adults.

The opposition questions the outcome of the elections for the interruption of loading of provisional calculations Sunday night, when the exam reached 84%. However, in 2014, the same system had reached 70% on polling day; and in 2016 to 80%. The provisional results of Sunday's election showed a difference between Morales and Carlos Mesa, of the opposition party Citizen Community (CC)7.87 percent. On Monday, when the control was reactivated, the difference was exceeded by 10,000 points and he gave the victory without a vote.

This motivated mobilizations and call for an indefinite strike in several regions of Boliviaconvened by the collective of civil society organizations from nine departments. The event began to take shape in Santa Cruz de la Sierra (900 km east of La Paz), but it spread to Potosí and Cochabamba. he Committee for the Defense of Democracy, which brings together civic spaces across the country, also announced the civil resistance to the possible victory of Morales and his adhesion to unemployment. The offices of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal were at the center of the demonstrations and some of their premises were set on fire.

For his part, the candidate for the presidency of the CC, Carlos Mesa, second in the preliminary results, called permanent mobilization in defense of the vote. "We will be mobilized (…) until it is recognized that the second round this must be done because that is what the Bolivian people legitimately voted, "said Mesa, who also summoned the other seven candidates who participated in the election to form a bloc of unity. "Defending democracy." "That our beloved country does not enter the path of dictatorship to which President Morales wants to lead us," he said.

The OAS Electoral Observation Mission (EOM) in Bolivia considered that the best option was to Realization of the ballot to resolve the tight choicesaid the spokesman for the organization. "In the event that, after the calculation, the margin of difference is greater than ten percent, it is statistically reasonable to conclude that it will be for a very small percentage.Because of the context and problems highlighted by this electoral process, it would always be best to call a second round", said the director of the Department of Electoral Cooperation and OAS Observation.

At the request of Bolivian Foreign Minister Diego Pary, the OAS agreed to do an analysis of the electoral process. They will be responsible for checking the count and the entire process, as well as the statistical aspects and the chain of custody. But they cautioned that the findings should be binding on all parties.