Bolivia Presidential Candidate Warns of ‘Manipulation’ as Vote-Count Halts
By Ernesto Londoño
Carlos Mesa, a Bolivian opposition candidate, speaking to reporters on Monday.CreditCreditJorge Bernal/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Oct. 21, 2019, 2:45 p.m. ET
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Carlos Mesa, the Bolivian presidential candidate who appeared Sunday to have won enough votes to force a runoff with the incumbent Evo Morales, accused the ruling party of foul play on Monday as election officials stopped reporting vote-count updates.
“This government is trying to block the path to a second round, which was clearly established yesterday,†Mr. Mesa told reporters.
The Bolivian election authorities on Sunday night released preliminary election results based on about 83 percent of the votes cast. They showed Mr. Morales ahead with 45 percent, while Mr. Mesa was only seven points behind, with about 38 percent.
Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/world/americas/Bolivia-election-vote-count.html
That guy who has been running Bolivia, Evo Morales, is in the mode of Hugo Chavez, that kind of bend, Marxist. That periodical "The Nation" had an article calling Bolivia a success, anyway, per this election, it sounds like there should be a run off, it sounds like there is some "hanky panky" going on with the vote count. Bolivia, population 10 million, small in that regard.
