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Weekly Report - 14 May 2015 (WR-15-19)
BOLIVIA: Another challenged victory for the MAS
“Beni’s history will begin to change,” was the response by Juan Ramón Quintana, Bolivia’s minister for the presidency and a close ally of President Evo Morales, to the result of the 3 May gubernatorial run-off in the eastern department where the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) notched up an unprecedented victory. It is worth recalling that Beni was the only one of Bolivia’s nine departments where Morales failed to win a majority vote in the October 2014 general elections. The narrow scale of the MAS victory – with just 789 votes in it – has reignited concerns regarding the electoral authorities which had already come under fire for various decisions ahead of the first round of gubernatorial and local elections on 29 March. Less surprising was the result of the other 3 May run-off in gas rich Tarija which produced a convincing victory for the local opposition.
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