2020 Bolivian general election
Luis Arce of the Movement for Socialism party was elected president in a landslide, winning 55% of the vote and securing majorities in both chambers of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly. Results of the election superseded the disputed results of the October 2019 elections, which were annulled during a prolonged political crisis. For the first time since 2009 the winning party did not have a two thirds majority in the Legislative Assembly, meaning that some functions would require cross-party support.
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Luis Arce of the Movement for Socialism party was elected president in a landslide, winning 55% of the vote and securing majorities in both chambers of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly. Results of the election superseded the disputed results of the October 2019 elections, which were annulled during a prolonged political crisis. For the first time since 2009 the winning party did not have a two thirds majority in the Legislative Assembly, meaning that some functions would require cross-party support. Electoral authorities had initially scheduled the elections for 3 May 2020. However, they were postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, first to 6 September 2020 and then to 18 October 2020. On 10 November 2019, after 19 days of civil protests following the disputed election results of October 2019 and the release of a report from the OAS, the military and the police of Bolivia forced president Morales to resign. In the same day, the interim government presented a bill that aimed to forge a path to a new vote. The bill would annul the election and appoint a new electoral board within 15 days of its passage, paving the way for a new election. On 20 November, Evo Morales offered to not run as a presidential candidate if he was allowed to return to Bolivia and conclude his term. On that day, he accepted the government of Mexico’s offer of political asylum, which Morales accepted a day afterwards. As Vice-President Álvaro García Linera and President of the Senate Adriana Salvatierra had already resigned, there were no constitutionally-designated successors.
Jeanine Áñez was the highest-ranking official still in office and she announced that she would be willing to ascend to the presidency on an interim basis in order to call for new elections. The official count took several days to complete. Official observers from the UN, UNIORE and the Oas all stated that there was no evidence of fraud in the 2020 election. The winning party received a higher proportion of theVote in 2020 than in the previous annulling elections, but for the first. time, the Senate will contain a majority of female senators. The election was held on October 18, 2020, and the results were announced on October 19, 2020. The winner was Luis Arce, replacing former MAS president Evo. Morales, who was forced to resign after the military’s request for Morales’s resignation public, accompanied by other resignations by high-level politicians throughout the day, some citing fears for the safety of their families. Feliciano Mamani replaced Ruth Nina as candidate for PAN-BOL. María de la Cruz Bayá all launched presidential candidacies, but withdrew before the election was hold. The second and third-place finishers, respectively, in the annuled 2019 presidential election were the National Action Party and the Front for Victory. The third and fourth place finishers were Carlos Mesa and Chi Hyun Chung were the second and fifth-placed finishers.
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