Bolivia's Voters Reaffirm 'Process of Change'
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1105 .... April 14, 2015
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Bolivia’s Voters Reaffirm ‘Process of Change’ But Issue Warnings to the Governing MAS
Richard Fidler
Up to 90 per cent of the electorate voted in Bolivia's "subnational" elections March 29 for governors, mayors and departmental assembly and municipal council members throughout the country. These were the second such elections to be held since the new Constitution came into force in 2009, the first being in 2010.
The Movement for Socialism (MAS) once again emerged as the only party with national representation -- by far the major political force in Bolivia, and far ahead of the opposition parties, none of which has a significant presence in all nine departments. However, in some key contests the voters rebuffed the MAS candidates, most notably for governor in La... Paz department and for mayor in the city of El Alto, the centre of the 2003-2005 upsurges and long considered a MAS bastion.
