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Factbox-Bolivia election: What you need to know
New voting technology aims to prevent fraud after 2019 unrest as nearly 8 million Bolivians vote amid economic crisis and political fragmentation, officials said.
- On August 17, nearly 8 million voters in Bolivia will elect a president, vice president, and fill all seats in the legislature amid a highly competitive candidate lineup.
- The vote comes amid a political crisis in which ex-President Evo Morales was prevented from participating as a candidate following an unsuccessful bid to amend the constitution, leading him to call for a boycott.
- Right-Wing candidates, including Jorge Quiroga and Samuel Doria Medina, lead polls below 30%, while the left-wing MAS party faces waning support and internal fractures.
- The electoral tribunal intends to release preliminary outcomes covering most of the vote count on the night of the election, utilizing photographed tally sheets from polling stations, with monitoring conducted by international observers from the EU and OAS.
- If no candidate wins outright, a runoff is scheduled for October 19, and the new president will take office on November 8 amid hopes for economic stabilization.
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Bolivians will go to the polls on Aug. 17 to vote for a new president, vice president and 166 combined members of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. When it comes to environmental policies, the country has many important decisions to make about climate change commitments, development of the lithium industry, illegal gold mining, and forest loss in the Amazon Rainforest and Chiquitania savanna. For the most part, the candidates have ambiguou…
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Denver GazetteFactbox-Bolivia election: What you need to know
(Reuters) -Almost 8 million Bolivians are set to vote on August 17 for a new president, vice president and all legislative seats - 26 senators and 130 deputies.
Of the eight presidential candidates, none exceeds 30 per cent of the voting intention in the polls; in addition, there is no female quota among the candidates.
The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) recalled that electoral offences committed before, during and after the general elections of August 17 will be punished with fines ranging from 137 to 1,375 Bolivians depending on the severity of the offence.
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