Evo Morales won 35% of the votes in opposition-disputed primary elections – 01/28/2019

The President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, had this Sunday the 35.25 percent of his party's votes in the first primary elections held in the country, which were heavily questioned by the opposition, considering them an unnecessary expense as only one leader could be voted per group.

At the same time, voter turnout has been low, with more than 1.7 million activists they only voted about 400,000.

The ruling party, Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), was the most voted with a big difference compared to its eight competitors. who received support in surveys of less than 7 percent.

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The main leaders of the opposition have reached percentages of about 5%, such as former Bolivian President Carlos Mesa and Senator Oscar Ortiz. Other smaller rivals, such as former Vice President Víctor Hugo Cárdenas and former President Jaime Paz Zamora, earned respectively 4.12% and 3.78%.

MAS had called for participation, while alliances such as Citizen of the community from Mesa and Bolivia says no Ortiz had announced that he would vote only the minimum number of activists needed to qualify his candidatures.

The President of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Bolivia, María Eugenia Choque, badured after communicating to the media preliminary results that there were "challenges and challenges" with regard to participation.

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Antonio Costas, a member of the electorate, for his part declared that "to be the first time that an event would take place voluntarily", since the vote is mandatory in elections such as those taking place in Bolivia, "interesting."

Hull and Costas agreed that the decision to vote matched each party.

This vote for activists to vote on the candidates of their parties had the support of the decision, while the opposition denounced a useless expense (about $ 3.9 million).

At the same time, The opposition claims that these elections were promoted by the ruling party as a tool allowing Evo Morales to obtain a fourth candidacy for the presidency.after the ruling of the Constitutional Court of Bolivia, which established the right to indefinite re-election.

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The opposition claims that the country's constitution must prevail, which limits consecutive terms to two, and a referendum that deprived Morales of the possibility of eliminating this limit.

The Constitutional Court has already approved for a third term Evo Morales, in power since 2006, it being understood that the latter did not count because, in 2009, Bolivia was consolidated from the Republic to the Plurinational State.

Source: EFE