This is an indisputable victory for the #MAS. They have recovered from a major crisis within only a year and obtained their highest vote ever - almost 3.4 million, surpassing the 3.1m votes of 2014 when they obtained 61%. 1/ erbol.com.bo/nacional/c%C3%…
It seems that the large margin between the 1st and the 2nd can be explained by around 450 thousand votes that migrated from Mesa to the MAS this year. Like in 2019, around 16% didn't vote for neither of them. 2/
I believe that the big lesson of the crisis from last year and the results of this election should be that #Bolivian society forcefully rejects state abuses and the attempts of state representatives to cling to power unconstitutionally. 3/
Añez used the same tactics of the MAS to persecute opponents but in a harsher way. Her gov't was a flashback of the worst of the neoliberal era, submission to the US, plus 2 massacres and overt racism. An independent @tsebolivia and social orgs. pushed for elections this year. 4/
Evo's and his entourage's obsession with the reelection
and co-opting independent branches of the state generated a major crisis, gave the opposition a collective frame to mobilize under the 21F, and put the Plurinational State at risk.
and co-opting independent branches of the state generated a major crisis, gave the opposition a collective frame to mobilize under the 21F, and put the Plurinational State at risk.
The results today show that: 1) The #MAS can exist without Evo. 2) The reelection bid was unnecessary. 3) Independence of the Electoral Court is essential. 4) There's no #Bolivia without a Plurinational State. 5) The most conservative opposition is as weak as in 2005. Not too bad
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