Violence Breaks Out In Bolivia Over Vote Count
Umer Jamshaid Published October 22, 2019 | 11:10 AM
Violence broke out in several Bolivian cities Monday after the main opposition candidate rejected presidential election results that seemed set to give victory to long-time incumbent Evo Morales, as international monitors voiced "deep concern
La Paz, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd Oct, 2019 ) :Violence broke out in several Bolivian cities Monday after the main opposition candidate rejected presidential election results that seemed set to give victory to long-time incumbent Evo Morales, as international monitors voiced "deep concern." Rival supporters clashed in the capital La Paz, while in the southern city of Sucre an angry mob set a local electoral authority's headquarters on fire, tv images showed.
Protesters clashed with police in the mining city of Potosi and attacked the local electoral authority as well as local government offices.
Riot-police dispersed a crowd who tried to storm the electoral offices in the Andean city of Oruro, south of La Paz.
Clashes were also reported in Tarija in the south, Cochabamba in the center and Cobija in the north.
Carlos Mesa, who came a close second to Morales in Sunday's polls -- forcing a run-off, according to preliminary results -- denounced revised results released by election authorities as a "fraud.
" "We are not going to recognize those results that are part of a shameful, consumated fraud, that is putting Bolivian society in a situation of unnecessary tension," said Mesa.
Mesa, a former president of the country between 2001-2005, accused Morales of colluding with the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) to tweak delayed results and avoid a run-off.
The United States' top diplomat for Latin America said the Electoral Tribunal was attempting "to subvert Bolivia's democracy by delaying the vote count and taking actions that undermine the credibility of Bolivia's elections.""We call on the TSE to immediately act to restore credibility in the vote counting process," the official, Michael Kozak, said on Twitter.
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