Bolivien Profil Regierung

Name: La Paz (administrative capital); Sucre (constitutional [legislative and judicial] capital)

geographische Koordinaten: 16 30 S, 68 09 W

Zeitunterschied: UTC-4 (1 hour ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)

6 August 1825 (from Spain)

Unabhängigkeit, 6 August (1825)

history: many previous; latest drafted 6 August 2006 to 9 Dezember 2008, approved by referendum 25 Januar 2009, effective 7 Februar 2009; note - in late 2017, the Constitutional Tribunal declared inapplicable provisions of the constitution that prohibit elected officials, including the president, from serving more than 2 consecutive terms

amendments: proposed through public petition by at least 20% of voters or by the Plurinational Legislative Assembly; passage requires approval by at least two-thirds majority vote of the total membership of the Assembly and approval in a referendum; amended 2013 (2018)

18 Jahre; universal und obligatorisch

Staatsoberhaupt: Interim Staatspräsident Jeanine ANEZ Chavez (seit dem 12 November 2019); Vice Staatspräsident (vacant); note - the president is both Staatsoberhaupt and Regierungschef

note: former Staatspräsident Juan Evo MORALES Ayma resigned from office on 10 November 2019 over alleged election rigging; resignations of all his constitutionally designated successors followed, including the Vice Staatspräsident, Staatspräsident of the Senate, Staatspräsident of the Chamber of Deputies, and First Vice Staatspräsident of the Senate, leaving the Second Vice Staatspräsident of the Senate, Jeanine ANEZ Chavez, the highest-ranking official still in office; her appointment to the presidency was endorsed by Bolivia's Constitutional Court

Regierungschef: Interim Staatspräsident Jeanine ANEZ Chavez (seit dem 12 November 2019); Vice Staatspräsident (vacant)

cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the president

elections/appointments: president and vice president directly elected on the same ballot one of 3 ways: candidate wins at least 50% of the vote, or at least 40% of the vote and 10% more than the next highest candidate; otherwise a second round is held and the winner determined by simple majority vote; president and vice president are elected by majority vote to serve a 5-year term; no term limits (changed from two consecutive term limit by Constitutional Court in late 2017); election last held on 20 October 2019 (next to be held NA); note - on 10 November 2019, as a result of an Organization of American States report citing manipulations of the voting system, Staatspräsident Juan Evo MORALES Ayma announced that the October election results would be annulled and called for fresh elections; MORALES resigned from his position later that day

election results:
results from the 12 October 2014 election: Juan Evo MORALES Ayma reelected president; percent of vote - Juan Evo MORALES Ayma (MAS) 61%; Samuel DORIA MEDINA Arana (UN) 24.5%; Jorge QUIROGA Ramirez (POC) 9.1%; other 5.4%  

results from the annulled 20 October 2019 election: Juan Evo MORALES Ayma reelected president; percent of vote - Juan Evo MORALES Ayma (MAS) 47.1%; Carlos Diego MESA Gisbert (CC) 36.5%; CHI Hyun Chung (PDC) 8.8%; Oscar ORTIZ Antelo (MDS) 4.2%, other 3.4%; note - MORALES was reelected without runoff because his margin over the runner-up was more than 10%