Main excerpts follow:

“Bolivia judges election tests Evo Morales support”

“Voting has ended in Bolivia after the first ever election to choose the country’s top judges. Exit polls suggested a large number of voters deliberately spoiled their ballots in protest against President Evo Morales. Mr Morales says the elections will make Bolivia’s justice system more democratic and accountable.”

“But the opposition argued that the reform would politicize (SIC) judges, and urged people to spoil their votes. They called on voters to treat the election as a referendum on Mr Morales’s government. Correspondents say a large number of spoiled ballots would represent a significant setback for the left-wing leader.”

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“But opposition parties opposed the election because all the candidates were
chosen by congress. They urged people to spoil their ballot papers to show their dissatisfaction with President Morales’s government. Mr Morales, who is Bolivia’s first indigenous president, won a second term as president with a landslide victory in December 2009.”

“But since then his popularity has fallen. An attempt to end fuel subsidies last year provoked nationwide protests. And this year a plan to build a road through an indigenous rainforest reserve in the Amazon angered many of the social movements that helped bring him to power.”

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