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Weekly Report - 01 October 2020 (WR-20-39)

BOLIVIA: Uncertainty prevails as election draws close

One thing that Bolivia’s protracted election campaign has unequivocally demonstrated is that a shared opposition to the previous Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) government is not as powerful a force for unity as some in the country had hoped. Demonstrated first by the repeated failure of the array of anti-MAS presidential candidates to consolidate an alliance, interim president Jeanine Áñez’s recent withdrawal from the contest [WR-20-38] has exposed similar fragilities within her own governing coalition. With a divisive election on the horizon, and a deadly pandemic still in full flow, a crumbling government is the last thing Bolivia needs.

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