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Weekly Report - 30 October 2014 (WR-14-43)
BOLIVIA: Wasting no time
With the dust yet to settle on the 12 October general elections (the supreme electoral court [TSE] has not even announced the final results), the first candidacies have been launched ahead of the regional and municipal elections which are expected to take place in March 2015. In the general elections, President Evo Morales and his Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) won in eight of Bolivia’s nine departments (losing only in Beni). Yet it remains to be seen how far the MAS, which has yet to confirm its candidates for key seats, will replicate this victory at a local level given the traditional strength of local opposition outfits able to exploit the tendency of voters to distinguish between local and national priorities.
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