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.
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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.
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