The Government announced that, together with other countries in the region, it supports an Extraordinary Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) for Wednesday, October 23rd, in order to know the situation and the crisis that broke out after the Bolivian electoral process last Sunday.
Costa Rica urges the Bolivian people to maintain a vigilant, but peaceful and orderly attitude, so that the electoral process can be concluded correctly. Likewise, a call is made to the Bolivian electoral authorities so that the recommendations emanating from the report of the OAS Electoral Observation Mission are fully complied with in order to ensure a transparent, reliable and respectful electoral process of the values contained in the Inter-American Democratic Charter,”
said the Foreign Ministry.
The Permanent Council meeting, which brings together the ambassadors of the 34 active member countries of the organization, would take place at the OAS headquarters in Washington.
In Bolivia, Morales, who has been in office since 2006, is about to be re-elected amid strong opposition protests, which denounces fraud and took to the streets to demonstrate, and criticism from international observers who question the president’s sudden advantage in the scrutiny.
The OAS Electoral Observation Mission in Bolivia called on Monday to respect the will of citizens.
The OAS Mission expresses its deep concern and surprise at the drastic and difficult-to-justify change in the trend of the preliminary results known after the polls close,”
said the OAS in a statement.
The former Foreign Minister of the Republic, Manuel González, was the head of the OAS observer mission for Sunday’s elections in Bolivia.
The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) released results on Sunday night with more than 80% of the minutes recorded that anticipated a second round on December 15th between Morales and his main contender, former president Carlos Mesa. But 24 hours later, he presented data that inexplicably modified that result, giving Morales a first-round victory.
The United States accused the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of trying to subvert democracy in Bolivia, while Spain, Argentina, Brazil and Colombia expressed concerns about the progress of vote counting.