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(CNN Spanish) - Official arithmetic indicates that there will be no second round in general elections in Bolivia.
According to the provisional calculation of the Plurinational Electoral Body, there are 99.98% of the minutes recorded.
With that number, the Movement To Socialism of Evo Morales obtains 47.08% of the votes. And the Community of Carlos Mesa, 36.51%.
If we subtract those numbers we find that Morales has an advantage on the table of 10.57%.
And the electoral law of Bolivia establishes that it goes to a second round when the first candidate obtains more than 40% of the votes and there is a difference between the first and the second candidate less than 10% of the votes counted.
The electoral body has not proclaimed any winner.
The president and presidential candidate of Bolivia, Evo Morales, assured the media that he won the first round of the presidential elections in his country. Morales said there are still some votes to be counted, but he declared himself the winner of last Sunday's elections. Morales and former president Carlos Mesa were the candidates with the highest number of votes in the elections this Sunday, but the scrutiny of the minutes has sparked the controversy as the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Bolivia interrupted the transmission of data at one point at night. The OAS denounced irregularities in the vote count in Bolivia and recommended the second round.
Carlos Mesa, in turn, has reported irregularities. Mesa made a video calling on the international community to avoid a dictatorship in Bolivia. Mesa says that Evo Morales' third term would be illegitimate.
Meanwhile, the OAS recognizes that there is inconsistency in the vote count of the elections in Bolivia held last Sunday, and the organization requests a second round of elections.
As the #OEAenBolivia Mission said, allowing the people to express themselves in a second round is the most democratic exit and an opportunity to avoid a political and social confrontation in the country. My words today at @CP_OEA pic.twitter.com/r0JzGychzY
- Luis Almagro (@ Almagro_OEA2015) October 24, 2019
Bolivia Vote 2019 Carlos MesaEvo Morales
