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(CNN Spanish) - This Sunday, more than 7 million Bolivians are entitled to vote to elect president, vice president, 36 senators, 130 deputies and 9 supra-state representatives. The political scenario in Bolivia is complex and polarized: two candidates are the ones who have the best chance of reaching the presidency that sees a second electoral round, according to experts.
On the one hand, there is President Evo Morales, of the Movement to Socialism, who is in office for a fourth term. On the other front is the former president, and now a presidential candidate, Carlos Mesa.
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President Morales voted this morning and invited the Bolivians to participate in the elections.
“I am fulfilling a democratic duty, I have just paid my due and I take this opportunity to summon the Bolivian people to participate in this democratic party,” he told reporters, reports to the Bolivian Information Agency, ABI.
"We are very optimistic, we trust democracy," said Morales, who says he will win the elections this Sunday. The president says that the process of change that his government undertook, 14 years ago, is irreversible “because the people are united, around a political project of liberation, the people are united around a government program, but a program of town".
Evo Morales voting in the elections this Sunday. (AIZAR RALDES / AFP via Getty Images)
Morales comes to the electoral contest after a ruling by the constitutional court that enabled him to run indefinitely, on the grounds that it is a human right, despite the result of the February 2016 referendum that gave him 51.3% from votes to no to re-election.
The current Bolivian constitution, approved in February 2019, only includes two consecutive periods for the presidency in Bolivia.
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For his part, Carlos Mesa says that this Sunday's election is crucial, because Bolivian democracy is at stake against the authoritarianism established by the government of the Movement to Socialism in these last 14 years.
His party aims to "establish a government of transformation, of real democracy, that responds to what most Bolivians ask for and want."
The Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Bolivia inaugurated the election day this Sunday in which more than 34,000 precincts in Bolivia and the world will be enabled to elect a total of 352 positions.
According to the TSE there are 6.9 million qualified voters in Bolivia and 341,001 in 33 countries.
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