In the nationwide elections that took place in Bolivia on June 30,indigenous leader Evo Morales, of Aymara and Quechua descent, won 21 percent of the presidential vote, among 11 candidates. Morales came in second place, behind the former president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, with a difference of only two percent of the votes. He also won a seat in the Congress, winning 85 percent of the vote which constitutes a record. His party Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), now has the second largest number of seats in Congress.
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