Bolivia election: Evo Morales's leftwing party celebrates stunning comeback
by Tom Phillips and Dan Collyns in La Paz from World news | The Guardian on (#59865)
Exit polls for presidential election project win for Luis Arce as rival concedes defeat
Evo Morales's leftwing party is celebrating a stunning political comeback after its candidate appeared to trounce rivals in Bolivia's presidential election.
The official results of Sunday's twice-postponed election had yet to be announced on Monday afternoon, but exit polls projected that Luis Arce, the candidate for Morales's Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas), had secured more than 50% of the vote while his closest rival, the centrist former president Carlos Mesa, received about 30%.
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