The second round of presidential election in Bolivia was confirmed

Bolivia’s Supreme Court (TSE) announced yesterday Thursday that a second round of the presidential election will be held on October 19, which will face the first two votes in the first round: center -right Senator Rodrigo and Rodrigo. As they received 32% and 26.7% of the votes respectively, neither of them fulfilled the terms to secure the first victory – which is either higher than 50%, or more than 40% by at least 10 percentage points from the nearest opponent. It is the first time that a second round of presidential elections in Latin America will be organized after this mechanism was implemented in 2009. Until Sunday, the movement towards socialism (MAS), in power for the last twenty years, had won all the presidential elections from the first round. Mr PAS made the surprise of the first round of August 17, while not one of the favorites, taking the businessman out of battle with […]
Source: News Beast

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