The Supreme Electoral Court said Arce won 55% of the vote against six rivals in the poll, gently avoiding for a moment the round of former finalist Carlos Mesa with just under 29%.
Conservative Luis Fernando Camacho, one of the leaders of the motion of protest that helped drive Morales out of the country a year ago, won 14% of the vote.
The Movement for Socialism also won majority in any of the chambers of Congress, which does not mean that when it reached a two-thirds majority, it wanted to amend the charter without the consent of opposition parties.
Arce served as Economy Minister for a dozen years under Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, as bolivia’s mineral exports soared and poverty seriously reduced.
Since his election victory, Arce has downplayed the hypothesis of a leading role in his tenure for Morales, whose popularity has been undermined in his later years as president through a refusal to settle for mandate limits and perceived expanding authoritarianism.
Last year’s presidential election was suspended after protests erupting over alleged fraud through Morales, who had won a close victory in the first round. The political upsurge that preceded and followed his resignation, at the request of the army, left at least 36 other people dead.
The new election, organized through a reformed electoral court under a deeply conservative interim government that attempted to reverse many of Morales’ economic, cultural and external policies, has suffered economic setbacks in component due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Morales, who faces a series of fees filed through the interim administration, was able to run for office and lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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