Bolivia’s MAS Party Returns to Power in the Repeated Presidential Election

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On October 18, 2020, after multiple delays, Bolivia finally held its repeat presidential election, almost exactly a year after the disputed contest that sent former President Evo Morales into peripatetic exile. His Movimiento al Socialismo or MAS party, led by former finance minister Luis Arce, won a decisive first round victory. Pundits, editorialists, and analysts around the region (and across the ideological spectrum) had much to say about the election’s significance.

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