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Weekly Report - 09 April 2015 (WR-15-14)

BOLIVIA: Gearing up for run-off elections

The battles have already begun ahead of the 3 May run-offs taking place for the governorships of not two but three of Bolivia’s nine departments (Beni, Chuquisaca and now Tarija) following the latest results from the electoral authorities (TSE) for the 29 March departmental and local elections. This after candidates failed to win 50+1% of the vote or 40% with a 10- percentage point victory margin. The TSE results did confirm however that President Evo Morales’s Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), which having won four departments outright (Cochabamba, Oruro, Pando and Potosí) is contesting all three, remains the only party in Bolivia with a true national presence.

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