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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.
On 18 October 2020, Bolivian voters elected Luis Arce, leader of Evo Morales' MAS-IPSP, as Bolivia's president with 55% of the vote in the first round. Arce's main opponents, Carlos Mesa and Luis Fernando Camacho , received 29% and 14% of the vote, respectively.
Elections were initially scheduled to be held on 3 May 2020. [137] However, they were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [138] [139] [140] On 22 June 2020, Áñez approved a law passed by both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate to set a date for the election for 6 September 2020, with elected authorities in place by mid-to-late ...
Bolivia's socialist candidate Luis Arce looks set to win the country's presidential election without the need for a run-off, an unofficial count indicated on Monday, putting the leftwing party of ...
The landlocked Andean nation is headed for elections on Oct. 18, a re-run of a fraught vote last year that sparked deadly protests and led to the resignation of leader Evo Morales.
[117] [118] The 2020 Bolivian general election was indeed held on that date, resulting in a first-round win by MAS candidate Luis Arce, former minister of economy and public finance and ally of Evo Morales. In the election, which took place under the surveillance of OAS and other international organizations, MAS received 55% of the votes with a ...
10 March – Bolivia reports its first COVID-19 cases, of two individuals in the departments of Oruro and Santa Cruz. [2] 12 March – All public school sessions are suspended in Bolivia until 31 March, as well as all commercial flights to and from Europe indefinitely. Large-scale public gatherings of more than 1,000 people are also prohibited ...
Chi Hyun Chung, evangelical pastor, 2019 and 2020 presidential candidate [5] [6] Samuel Doria Medina, former minister of Planning and Coordination of Bolivia (1991–1993) [7] Branko Marinković, former minister of Economy and Public Finance (2020) [8] Eduardo Sicher, independent candidate,