Alberto Fernández referred to the report that Evo Morales did not do fraud and questioned the "silence" of Mauricio Macri

02/29/2020 - 15:40

• Clarín.com
• Politics

President Alberto Fernández referred on Saturday to the report made by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the Washington Post, which highlights that the now former Bolivian president Evo Morales won the elections without fraud.

The alleged irregularities denounced by the first report made by the Organization of American States (OAS) are, for analysts, conclusions that "seem deeply flawed."

Sharing the note published by Clarín , Fernández pointed out from his Twitter account that the "disseminated report critically criticizes, due to its inconsistency, the audit conducted at that time by the OAS, which concluded in affirming the existence of irregularities in the election that now it is claimed ".

"As I always pointed out, in Bolivia the rule of law was violated with the actions of the Armed Forces and sectors of the opposition to the then president and with the explicit complicity of the OAS that was called to ensure the full validity of democracy," Fernandez insisted.

According to a report published by @@ washingtonpost and made by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Evo Morales won last year's election by more than 10 points of difference, without any fraud mediating https://t.co/ Am9l9rG2Yr

The president also sent criticism to Mauricio Macri, whom he questioned because, he said, "he kept an complicit silence in the face of such an outrage, ignoring the voices that were then raised to preserve Bolivian institutions."

Fernández claimed "the prompt democratization of Bolivia, with the full participation of the Bolivian people and without any type of proscription."

As detailed by the US media, the researchers studied the trend of scrutiny before and after the rapid count was interrupted at 84%, at which point opponents of Morales denounced the start of the alleged fraud, which was later credited by the Organization of American States (OAS)

MIT said in its report that "the statistical analysis and the conclusions of the OAS seem deeply flawed."

The report adds that it is "highly probable that Morales exceeded the margin of 10 percentage points", defending that the upward trend that was driving the then president was prior to the interruption of the rapid count.

Evo Morales lives in exile in Argentina and intended to appear to the Senate in the new elections scheduled for May, but his candidacy was disqualified by the new members of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal appointed by Jeanine Áñez.