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The first provisional count of votes in the general elections of Bolivia , around 80% and 90% of the counting, has opened the door for the celebration of a second historical electoral round, something unprecedented in the Andean country .

Evo Morales, president since 2006, would not have reached 50% of the votes required to continue leading the country . The candidate of the Movement To Socialism (MAS), with 45.7% of the votes, also did not exceed his rival by more than 10%, according to provisional data made public tonight (early morning in Spain).

Former President Carlos Mesa , in charge of the Citizen Community, would have obtained around 37.8% of the support, which according to the ViaCiencia count would be reduced to only 4 and a half points.

Thus, after three elections in which it swept, Morales must face for the first time a second electoral round, according to preliminary data.

But in his first appearance before the country, after an hour and a half after the announcement, Morales sang victory . "We have won again. We understand the preliminary data, we will wait until the last scrutiny, " said the indigenous leader, who anticipated his final victory with the support of the field votes.

At the time of his speech, there had already been a break in the count, which alarmed the Organization of American States (OAS): "It is essential that the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) explain why the transmission of preliminary results was interrupted and that the process of publishing the data of the computation develops in a fluid way ".

In this way, what everyone took for granted, the celebration on December 15 of a second round, was in a suspenseful suspect. "Once again, the TSE breaches its word . Its commitment was to give us 100% of the results through the TREP (Transmission of Provisional Electoral Results), a commitment to the security of something we all know, based on all independent counts. We are in the second round with a difference of less than five points. What is happening is extremely serious , we cannot accept that it is about manipulating a result that obviously leads us to the second round, "Mesa protested through a video uploaded to his networks social.

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