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Bloomberg
Bolivians were expected to vote in presidential and congressional elections with the socialist movement seeking a return to power a year after their leader Evo Morales was ousted and fled the country. Morales’s ally Luis
Arce, a UK-educated economist, is ahead in polls, but needs to avoid a run-off in which voters opposed to his socialist party can unite behind a single candidate.
His main opponent is former President Carlos Mesa, an ex-journalist who led the country from 2003-2005. The vote is the first since last year’s chaotic election, which led to violent unrest and accusations of fraud. Since then, Bolivia has been run by an unelected transition government which Arce and his supporters regard as illegitimate.