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Violence erupted Tuesday night at a meeting of Evo Morales in the city of Santa Cruz. REUTERS / Rodrigo Urzagasti

Bolivians will go to the polls on Sunday to vote for their MPs, senators and new president. A few days before the vote, the campaign ends and anger rises against the current president.

With our correspondent in La Paz , Alice Campaignolle

Bolivia begins its "electoral silence". Starting this Thursday, candidates can no longer campaign and will therefore remain silent. With the exception of the current president , who is vying for his own estate, Evo Morales, who is still entitled to deliver yards, schools, bridges or hospitals, because of his status as head of the State. This decision of the Electoral Tribunal did not fail to make controversy in the opposition. For them, it's a sideways way of campaigning.

This is not the first time that Evo Morales is accused of having the democratic rules changed in his favor. If he can be a candidate today, it is because he refused the result of the 2016 vote in which the Bolivians said "no" to a new candidacy for the one who is now in power for 14 years.

Many Bolivians are tired of the head of state and tension is mounting in the country. Violence erupted Tuesday night at a meeting of Evo Morales in the city of Santa Cruz. And this fuss could well be felt at the polls Sunday: the current president may go to the second round, for the first time in his career.