• Elections Evo Morales would not need a second round to be president, according to the questioned electoral count

"We won in the first round. My crime is to be an Indian president," Evo Morales counterattacked yesterday when the electoral scrutiny under suspicion, 98%, gave him a minimum advantage of 10.13% over the opponent Carlos Mesa, enough to continue his presidency until 2025 and to rule out the December tiebreaker . A castling in the best Bolivarian style, the same road map followed by Nicolás Maduro in 2013, perfected with the 2018 presidential elections.

Bolivia lives today hours of tension and protests, which most resemble a déjà-vu. It would be enough to change the protagonists because the script is the same, even the calls of organizations related to the indigenous leader to celebrate the "great victory". The 'son of Chávez' insisted then that his greatest crime was to be a workers president. Even the accusations against the rival candidate ("Mesa is a coward and also a criminal") and against the alliance that arose after the "scandalous fraud" ("they are a group of failed politicians") seem to be taken from the same book of History.

Morales appeared before the country sure not only of his victory, but also that he can keep his castling without further wear, supported by the dogma that the alleged coup will not come to power. "If the final result says that we are going to the second round, we will go," he added, knowing that everything indicates that he will hardly exceed the 10% ribbon, which would directly grant him his third re-election.

The Aymara leader not only dispatched against those who protest in the streets since Monday, he also did so against the Electoral Mission of the Organization of American States (OAS), which has advanced the need to go to a second round after verifying that they have Violated electoral rights. "I do not want to understand that the mission of the OAS is already with the coup d'etat. I do not know if yesterday I was understood, it is an internal and external coup d'etat," emphasized the candidate of Movement To Socialism (MAS), going again To the great bible of Chavismo. The OAS proposes to lead an audit, provided that its result is binding on both parties.

Evo disqualified both the national strike called by the opposition and the students and youth who confront him in the streets. "They are mobilized and deceived by platter [money] and by note. We are going to defend democracy and the results, we are called to defend democracy because we recover it," said the president with another of the commandments of the revolutionary creed, in addition to boast that under his management poverty was reduced .

A country halved

The reality is that Evo Morales does not hide his letters and is determined to move forward at any cost. With a country split in half, between followers and detractors, a scenario similar to the Venezuelan of 2013 is repeated. The so-called Electoral Homeland on horseback of an advantageous without limits that over the years becomes the denunciation of fraud, with two National Electoral Council (Venezuela) and Supreme Electoral Tribunal (Bolivia) at the service of their leaders.

Mesa has already announced that it will not recognize the results as happened in 2013 with Henrique Capriles after the victory for Maduro's minimum, with multiple complaints. Just a coincidence, but there are many more. The 2018 presidential elections were not recognized even months before going to the polls.

The same road map with the same starting point: the previous advantage for the government candidate, which in Venezuela exceeds world limits. From the use and abuse of the Chavista 'mass media' to the sophistication of the country card, a tool for social control of unknown boundaries. "If our witnesses and the voting population are not awaiting the proper functioning of the center, the official operators can alter the results in many ways," Roberto Picón, chief election technician of the Democratic Unit , describes that the Chavismo imprisoned for six months in the sinister headquarters of the Maduro political police.

From the assisted vote to keep "the center open beyond the regulatory time to take advantage of insecurity, fatigue and darkness, put votes on the table", adds Picón. In the presidential elections of 2012 and 2013, Chavismo pushed almost a million people to vote in the last hours, moving them and pressing them to vote.

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