After midnight on Sunday (early morning in Europe), the Bolivian authorities officially announced that the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) presidential candidate Luis Arce had obtained 52.4 percent of the votes, thus winning the elections in the country.

The Citizen Community (CC) candidate Carlos Mesa got 31.5 percent, and the "We Believe Alliance" candidate Luis Fernando Camacho reached 14.1 percent of the votes.

Bolivia's president-elect Arce thanked the people for their support and for their peaceful participation in the electoral process.

“We have recovered democracy and hope. We ratify our commitment to work with social organizations. We are going to build a national unity government."

Previously, the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) spokesperson Sebastian Mitchell made an official statement regarding the absence of definitive data on the elections. He said that mainstream media and exit-polls companies know that Socialist candidate Arce had already exceeded 45 percent of the votes.

A few minutes before the official results were announced, former President Evo Morales, who remains a political refugee in Argentina, recalled that millions of Bolivians cast their vote peacefully and demanded that the coup-born regime led by Jeanine Añez respect the results.

“Yesterday we denounced that the authorities suspended the presentation of the results of the exit poll companies. That was suspicious," Morales said. "Everything indicates that the MAS has won the elections and won a majority of seats in both chambers."