Elections, suspense, and humor | Elecciones, suspenso y humor

By Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario:

While we wait for Jaime Dunn’s candidacy, the political campaign is focused on MAS and the parties and candidates who are its familiar faces.

Within MAS, there are new signs that its leaders and members are beginning to grasp a bit of humor.

The currently hidden advisors of Andrónico said last week that candidate Luis Arce was the one who grew the most in the polls.

Indeed, he went from 0.5% to 1%, which means that, in absolute numbers, the number of people who would vote for him doubled.

As good MAS members, they have different interpretations—if they have any at all—and Arce’s followers say he will win “once the team is assembled.”

A joke that ceases to be funny because it serves as a warning to all Bolivians that fraud remains fully intact, even if the candidates and members of the parliamentary “opposition” refuse to see it.

There’s no protest about the “disqualified vote,” or the greater weight of rural votes compared to those from cities. Not a single word.

Just with that detail, it’s guaranteed that in August, whichever MAS candidate is blessed by the fraud apparatus will enjoy a very comfortable majority—just as comfortable as Nicolás Maduro’s in Venezuela.

The seven “special constituencies,” where voter inflation reached up to 700% in previous elections, will take care of the rest.

And it’s known that the electoral roll has been declared finalized and untouchable by the TSE, which has flatly stated that it cannot review or audit it, because it would cost 70 million dollars—a definitive obstacle, starting with the fact that the money needed is in dollars.

Therefore, in such comfort, the MAS supporters are doubling down on humor.

The luchistas have sent Andrónico a proposal for him to be Arce’s running mate, and the response was a burst of laughter.

Cocalero Morales wanted to make the same proposal, summoning him to a meeting in Lauca Ñ, but Andrónico preferred to travel to the Motherland to meet with the Spaniards who had the brilliant idea of turning Bolivia into a plurinational state—just as they now wish to do with Spain.

And in Tarija, there’s a major doubt about the 36 nations of the plurinational state, because it turns out that one of those nations, in the Chaco, lives six months on Bolivian territory and six months on Paraguayan territory, following the sábalo fish in the Pilcomayo. Would they actually be not three dozen, but thirty-five and a half nations?

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