{"id":3254,"date":"2020-10-22T14:33:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T11:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=3254"},"modified":"2020-10-22T14:33:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T11:33:11","slug":"bolivia-crucial-presidential-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=3254","title":{"rendered":"Bolivia: Crucial Presidential Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Bolivia, the Covid-19 pandemic is only one part of the turmoil that has been taking place in this country over the past year; this annual cycle of turmoil consists of a contentious election showdown, deadly looting, the overthrow of the country&#8217;s first indigenous President in a coup as his followers claim, the rise to power of a relatively unknown senator and her failed attempt to hold on to the presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last Sunday&#8217;s Presidential elections, October 18, 2020, gave the country&#8217;s citizens a chance for a fresh start as they struggle to shake off the dramatic cost of the passage of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statistics to date give 8400 deaths from Covid-19 out of a population total of 11.6 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/2e\/Mapa_Electoral_-_Bolivia_-_Elecciones_2020_-_Provincias.png\/225px-Mapa_Electoral_-_Bolivia_-_Elecciones_2020_-_Provincias.png\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><strong>Bolivia: elections October 18, 2020 by province<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The main contenders for the supreme court are former Finance Minister Luis Arce, whose contribution to economic growth is recognised under centrist President Evo Morales, and former President Carlos Meza, a centrist historian and journalist who finished second last year after Morales in the annulled elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The parties or alliances contesting the election are the&nbsp;Movement for Socialism (MAS-IPSP), which governed before 2019, Civic Community (CC), the newly formed Creemos (<em>Let&#8217;s create<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>We believe<\/em>) alliance, the Front for Victory, and the National Action Party (PAN-BOL).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The official count proceeded slowly, with less than 6.5% of the vote counted on election night. However, independent quick-counts of the vote conducted by polling firms Ciesmori and Mi Voto Cuenta on the morning of 19 October both indicated that Arce had won a majority of the vote, enough to win the election outright without requiring a runoff round. Interim President \u00c1\u00f1ez confirmed this on Twitter shortly after, with Mesa and Quiroga signaling their acceptance of the preliminary results later that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Bolivia, the Covid-19 pandemic is only one part of the turmoil that has been taking place in this country over the past year;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[820,390],"tags":[1249,779,2020],"class_list":["post-3254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-politics","tag-bolivia","tag-elections","tag-luis-arce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3256,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions\/3256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}