The president of Bolivia’s supreme electoral tribunal (TSE), Salvador Romero, presented what he described as a “thoroughly sanitised electoral roll” on 14 September. Romero expressed his confidence that every vote would count in the delayed general election next month in what looked like an attempt to reassure both the public and opposition politicians. Tensions are mounting. On the same day, the government led by interim president Jeanine Áñez and the left-wing opposition Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) engaged in a spat over the alleged misuse of state resources in electoral campaigning.
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