Bolivian President Evo Morales casting his vote in a national referendum which enhances the revolutionary process unfolding in this South American country.
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Xinhua
LA PAZ (Bolivia). EVO MORALES from the ruling Movement for Socialism won the presidential election in Bolivia on Sunday, as exit poll showed.
According to the exit polls by three local TV channels, 50-year-old Morales, who became Bolivia’s first indigenous president in January 2006, garnered 62-65 percent of the vote.
His closest rivals Manfred Reyes Villa of the Bolivian Progress Plan and Samuel Doria of the National Unity party got 23-25 percent and 9 percent of the vote respectively.
It was the first presidential election since the new constitution was approved in a referendum in January 2009, which scrapped a previous one-term limit for presidents and allowed current president to stand once more for re-election.
In the legislative part of the general elections, Morales’ Movement Towards Socialism party won 59 percent of the ballots, giving it domination in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate in the National Congress, polls suggested.
Meanwhile, the PPB got 24 percent and the UN 11,16 percent. With a Congress dominated by his party, Morales will be able to pursue socialist reforms as well as to enforce the new constitution.
The official results of the elections are expected to be announced later after the ballot counting is completed in 48 hours. The missions of observers from the Organisation of American States and the European Union praised on Sunday the high voter turnout in the general elections and their transparency.
More than 5,1 million Bolivians were registered to vote on Sunday in the elections for a new president, a vice president, 130 deputies and 36 senators.
For the first time, some 180 000 Bolivians living in Argentina, Brazil, Spain and the United States voted abroad. — Xinhua.
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