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Exit Polls: Bolivia's President Easily Wins Re-election

VOA News 06 December 2009

Exit polls in Bolivia show that leftist President Evo Morales has easily won re-election.

Bolivian media report that President Morales gained a little more than 60 percent of the vote, earning him a second five-year term on Sunday.

Mr. Morales is the South American country's first indigenous president. He was first elected in 2005.

Sunday's vote followed ratification of a constitutional amendment earlier in the year that allowed Mr. Morales to run for a second term.

Bolivia's voters also are choosing a new Congress, which the president's Movement Toward Socialism party is expected to dominate.

During his first term, the leftist anti-U.S. leader nationalized key sectors of Bolivia's economy, including mining and energy.

Bolivia is South America's poorest country despite the fact that it holds significant natural gas reserves.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.