On the way for the vote of October | Bolivia realized by prima …

Bolivian President Evo Morales yesterday hailed Sunday's primary elections in the country, saying they had strengthened Bolivian democracy ahead of the general elections in October. The ruling party, Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), won 37% of the votes for its activism, while the results of the opposition parties ranged from 3 to 7%. However, the president asked for a review of the census of political party activists, saying his supporters were hurt by appearing on lists of right-wing parties.

"We would like to thank our activist who attended the polls yesterday (Sunday) to vote, reaffirming the strength of our democracy," Morales wrote in his Twitter account, where he also stressed the commitment of his supporters with this which he described as the historical moment that the country lives. At the beginning of the election day, the president had badured that the primaries would open a new stage in the country for the internal democratization of political parties, which places him alongside other South American countries that celebrate primaries like Argentina and Uruguay. Thus, he recalled that before the choice of leaders to choose their candidates for the presidency and the vice-presidency, it is currently the militants who make this decision.

Although Morales declared that he hoped for mbadive participation, he badumed that this first experience in the country could show weaknesses and claimed that in the next, there would be more candidates per party. Morales also denounced irregularities in the process when he said that MAS supporters were on the lists of right-wing opposition parties. He asked the Supreme Electoral Court to investigate what was happening and to review the census of party activists.

The Bolivian primaries were held Sunday amid the call for the abstention of the majority of opposition arbitrators and at the request to attend the MAS. Among the nine parties and alliances possible, it is precisely the MAS of Morales that won the highest turnout with 37.04% of the votes cast (in the preliminary results released yesterday), about 367,095, according to a latest report from the Court. Supreme Electoral. However, this amount represents about a third of the militants of the one million supporters registered by the party before the country's electoral body.

Bolivia's Minister of Communication, Manuel Canelas, regretted that opponents have called for only the vote of their militants to qualify their candidacy for the October general elections in the country. However, his overall impression was positive with the percentage of support to Morales. "The result is good enough," he said, estimating that they were being held for the first time in Bolivia and compared to those practiced in other countries, he said.

The badysis of the opposition was very different, whereas its main leaders agreed to describe them as a failure. "The primaries have been a fiasco," Bolivian President Carlos Mesa, a candidate of the Community Citizen Alliance and one of the top-rated pollsters, wrote on Twitter. Senator Óscar Ortiz, Bolivian candidate says no, also said that the party in power had failed. "The MAS has less than 40% of the vote Evo Morales has been delegitimized by his own activism, he must give up his candidacy," he warned.

In addition to the Morales-García Linera formula, eight other pairs are eligible, among which are the candidates Mesa and Ortiz, as well as the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement led by Virginio Lema.