Some good news on our planet -Bolivia election: Evo Morales's leftwing party celebrates stunning

[malaise]

comeback.

So much for that coup!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/19/bolivia-election-exit-polls-suggest-thumping-win-evo-morales-party-luis-arce

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%.

Mesa conceded defeat on Monday lunchtime, telling supporters that a quick count showed a “very convincing and very clear” result. “There is a large gap between the first-placed candidate and us … and, as believers in democracy, it now falls to us … to recognise that there is a winner in this election,” Mesa said
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Bravo indigenous people!

[Laelth]

1. Excellent! k&r n/t

-Laelth

[malaise]

2. This is what I want in fourteen days

“There is a large gap between the first-placed candidate and us … and, as believers in democracy, it now falls to us … to recognise that there is a winner in this election,” Mesa said

[Laelth]

3. Yes. Kudos to the losing party for respecting the peaceful transition of power.

I hope we see the same in the United States in a couple of weeks.

-Laelth

[The Magistrate]

4. Very Glad To Hear This, Ma'am

"No king save King Demos!"

[pecosbob]

5. Was stunned to read about this last night

Guess Elon's going to have to pay a bit more for all that lithium oxide now. A sad day for third-world exploiters.

[malaise]

6. LOL

I'm really happy about this