der 2. Domino-Stein ist gefallen: Evo Morales siegte in Bolivien!

verfasst von Emerald, 19.12.2005, 07:06

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Morales poised to lead Bolivia
By Richard Lapper and Hal Weitzman in La Paz
Published: December 18 2005 23:52 | Last updated: December 18 2005 23:52

Evo Morales is set to become Bolivia?s first indigenous president as exit polls showed he received by far the largest share of the votes in Sunday?s election.

The result will cause consternation in Washington and among foreign investors such as British Gas and Total. Mr Morales has pledged to decriminalise the cultivation of coca, the raw material for cocaine, and to nationalise Bolivia?s lucrative gas industry.


Support for the leftwing leader exceeded expectations, with an advantage of between five and 18 percentage points over Jorge Quiroga, the conservative former president who was his closest rival.


?If the exit polls are correct, the next government will have the greatest legitimacy of any administration since the return to democracy in 1982,? said Eduardo Gamarra of Florida International University.


Mr Morales?s share of the vote appeared likely to fall short of the absolute majority needed for first-round victory. Under Bolivia?s constitution, the newly elected Congress will vote in January to choose the president from the top two candidates.


The Movement to Socialism, Mr Morales?s party, is likely to have a minority of the seats in the legislature. However, both Mr Quiroga and Samuel Doria Medina, the third-placed candidate, have said that the candidate who comes first should become president. Congress will convene on January 17, with the new president being inaugurated five days later.


Support for Mr Morales reached 60 per cent in La Paz, the capital, exit polls show. Even in Santa Cruz, the wealthy conservative department that has been pressing for autonomy, some polls showed his share of the vote as high as 30 per cent.


Opposition parties are expected to control a majority in both houses of Congress and most of the nine regional governments, for which elections were held Sunday for the first time.


Some analysts fear that this could lead to confrontations between national and regional governments.?It looks like the departmental prefects have been elected with bigger majorities in some cases than the president,? said Roberto Laserna, an analyst in Cochabamba.


Regional tensions could come to the fore next year, as Mr Morales is committed to calling an assembly to draft a new constitution.



....... Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecquador, Argentina es wird immer enger!

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