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Weekly Report - 18 February 2016 (WR-16-07)
BOLIVIA: Scandal shakes up re-election referendum campaign
A new influence-trafficking scandal implicating President Evo Morales has cast further doubt on his chances of victory ahead of the 21 February referendum on whether to change the constitution to allow him to run for a third consecutive presidential term in 2019 (under the 2009 constitution). With Vice President Alvaro García Linera admitting last month that official corruption – most notably that uncovered a year ago in the government indigenous development fund (Fondioc) [WR-15-12] – had damaged the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS)’s campaign, the latest scandal has already had a tangible impact on pre-electoral surveys, raising major doubts over a victory for the ‘yes’ vote.
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