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Andean Group - December 2009 (ISSN 1741-4466)

Morales wins huge mandate

As predicted by the polls, President Evo Morales beat his closest rival, Manfred Reyes Villa of the right-wing Plan Progreso para Bolivia-Convergencia Nacional (PPB-CN) by more than 30 percentage points in the 6 December presidential contest. Less expected was the scale of his victory in the eastern Media Luna departments, or in the congressional elections - where his Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) won virtually a two-thirds majority. The absence of any national political opposition (traditional or otherwise) and pre-eminence of the MAS across the country and in the legislature, provides Morales with the biggest popular mandate in recent history to continue his declared aim of implementing the new constitution.

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