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Bolivian President Blames “Twitter Experts” for Referendum Failure
https://panampost.com/sabrina-martin/2016/04/12/evo-morales-accuses-12-twitter-experts/According to Bolivian President Evo Morales, the United States sent 12 experts in social media to orchestrate a campaign against him in the consultative referendum held on February 21. The defeat took away the president’s possibility to run for reelection a fourth time.
“We were defeated by social media,” he claimed. “The United States sent 12 twitter experts to defeat us.”
This was the first electoral defeat suffered by Morales since entering office. He originally won office with 54 percent, was re-elected in 2010 with 64 percent and in 2015 with 61 percent.
The votes against constitutional reform that would allow for re-election came in at 51.3 percent, while the in-favor vote reached 48.7 percent. Morales attributed the defeat to social networks and suggested they should be controlled.
