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LA PAZ, Dec 24 (AFP): Evo Morales has been ratified as the next President of Bolivia, with 54 per cent of votes cast, the National Election Court announced Friday.
Election officials said all ballots had been counted and that with a majority of votes in his column, Morales becomes president-elect without throwing the election into the Congress.
The indigenous leader of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) is to be inaugurated on January 22.
His party garnered 64 deputies and 12 senators, giving him control of the Congress.
Former President and rightist Podemos candidate Jorge Quiroga took 29 per cent of the vote along with 44 deputies and 13 senators.
Businessman Samuel Doria Medina, of National Unity, got eight per cent of votes cast, with the backing of 10 deputies and one senator.
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