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<h1 class="reader-title">Socialist Presidential Candidate Arce
Wins Bolivia's Elections</h1>
October 18, 2020</div>
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<p>After midnight on Sunday, Bolivian authorities allowed
the results of the exit polls to be known. The Movement
Towards Socialism (MAS) presidential candidate Luis Arce
obtained 52.4 percent of the votes, the Citizen
Community (CC) candidate Carlos Mesa got 31.5 percent,
and the "We Believe Alliance" candidate Luis Fernando
Camacho reached 14.1 percent of the votes.</p>
<p>Bolivia's president-elect Arce thanked the people for
their support and for their peaceful participation in
the electoral process.</p>
<p>“We have recovered democracy and hope. We ratify our
commitment to work with social organizations. We are
going to build a national unity government."</p>
<p>Previously, the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS)
spokesperson Sebastian Mitchell made an official
statement regarding the absence of definitive data on
the elections. He said that mainstream media
and exit-polls companies know that Socialist
candidate Arce had already exceeded 45 percent of the
votes.</p>
<p>"Election observers do not understand if the absence of
information results from inefficiency or if the
government is implementing a strategy to win two or
three days, generate violence, and justify a military
intervention," Mitchell said.</p>
<p>The Bolivian Socialists' message was categorical and
clear: "we call on the community to avoid
provocations... let's end this nightmare we have been
living for a year."</p>
<p>A few minutes before the official information was
issued, former President Evo Morales, who remains a
political asylee in Argentina, recalled that millions of
Bolivians cast their vote peacefully and demanded that
the coup-born regime led by Jeanine Añez respect the
results.</p>
<p>“Yesterday we denounced that the authorities suspended
the presentation of the results of the exit poll
companies. That was suspicious," the Socialist leader
said</p>
<p>"Everything indicates that the MAS has won the
elections and won a majority of seats in both chambers,"
Evo added.</p>
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