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(CNN Spanish) - This morning the OAS Electoral Observation Mission in Bolivia denounced via Twitter the interruption of “the transmission of preliminary results” of the elections in that country and requested that “the process of publication of the data of the computation be developed in a fluid way ”.
CNN consulted the spokesperson of the Electoral Tribunal, Antonio Costas, about the accusations made by the OAS and said that "they are in Sala Plena, with international computation," without giving a precise answer as to why no more results data have been published. .
MIRA: Bolivia knows the first results of the 2019 general elections
Throughout the early morning the official page of the Plurinational Electoral Body (Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Bolivia) to recover the transmission of preliminary data reflected contradictions in the vote count in Bolivia. According to the figures of the electoral body itself, the transmission of the minutes favors Evo Morales, while the vote count favors Carlos Mesa.
Evo Morales voting in the elections this Sunday. (AIZAR RALDES / AFP via Getty Images)
In valid computed votes, Carlos Mesa obtains 50.35% of the votes and Evo Morales 34.01%.
Earlier, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Bolivia informed in a press conference that with 86% of the minutes recorded, the Movement to Socialism (MAS) of Evo Molares had 45, 28% of the votes and the Citizen Community of former President Carlos Mesa 38.16% so "the difference between the two is 7.11% which determines a second round according to preliminary information." Bolivian electoral law states that a second round is going when the difference between the first and second candidates is less than 10% of the votes counted.
MIRA: Elections in Bolivia: first results point to second round
At the same time, the former president and candidate of the Citizen Community, Carlos Mesa asked for a resumption of the electoral count and said that "the second round that all independent data confirm cannot be questioned and less mocked."
Internationally, Itamaraty the Brazilian Foreign Ministry said via Twitter that "Brazil expects the verification process to continue within the established rules, with transparency and fairness."
