Bolivian President won elections on Sunday with 67 per cent of the vote, more than double of his rival, the right-wing former army captain Manfred Reyes Villa, who obtained just 27 per cent.

 Confident with the victory, Morales declared that his socialist project “is of the Bolivian people” and that “having two-thirds of the congress obliges (him) to accelerate the process of change”. The president campaigned on a greater role for the state in the economy and to redistribute further wealth to the country’s poor indigenous majority, which gave him a large number of votes.

The result of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party permits to control over two-thirds of the congress, but he didn’t reach the same result in the lower house. With two-thirds control of both chambers it would be possible to dictate terms of a law on indigenous territorial self-rule, make actions uncontested and alter the constitution.

Evo Morales has a mandate unlike any other president in the world, counting his fifth national election in four years with an increasing margin of victory."

More than a half of Bolivians still live in poverty (six of 10) and Morales become famous for increasing profits from Bolivia's natural gas industry to fund highly popular subsidies for schoolchildren and the elderly as well as one-time payments for new mothers.

He has also gained support "refounding" Bolivia as a "plurinational" state with a new constitution that deep-rooted the rights of Bolivia’s 36 native populations who, besides being the country’s majority, were treated before as second-class citizens.