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General elections were held in Bolivia on 18 October 2020 for President, Vice-President, and all seats in both the Senate and Chamber of Deputies. [1] Luis Arce of the Movement for Socialism (MAS) party was elected president in a landslide, [2] [3] [4] winning 55% of the vote and securing majorities in both chambers of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly.
General elections were held in 1956, 1960, and 1964; and purely legislative elections were held in 1958 and 1962. Democracy was interrupted in 1964 by René Barrientos Ortuño , who proceeded to hold and win an election in 1966 and to convoke the Constituent Assembly of 1966-67 to rewrite the Constitution of Bolivia . [ 4 ]
On 8 November 2024, Evo Morales (MAS-IPSP, later Front for Victory [15]), former president of Bolivia (2006–2019), [16] became the first and only Bolivian citizen to be banned for life from running as a presidential candidate by the Plurinational Constitutional Tribunal.
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The Bolivian constitution allows the President and Vice-President to put themselves forward for re-election only once, limiting the number of terms to two, and the elections took place after in 2016 a referendum to amend the constitution was rejected, but that the Supreme Court of Justice ruled that all public offices would have no term limits ...
Given the closeness of the October general elections and the March subnational elections, Bolivia was the first country in the world to organize two national elections in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. [5] Among the officials to be elected were: Governors of all nine departments; Vice governors of Santa Cruz, Tarija, and Pando departments
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The Movement for Socialism (MAS) was an upstart populist party, led by former coca farmer and union leader Evo Morales. It rose to prominence during the campaign by promising to restore coca production and championing indigenous rights, which had not had much power in the decades leading up to the election (before 2002, indigenous parties never won more than 5% of the vote. [5])