La Paz, May 13 (PL/BOLIVIA) The National Election Commission (CNE) of Bolivia began to arrange the recall referendum of the president, vice president and eight mayors.
After President Evo Morales announced the referendum law, the CNE began to work on the program approved by unanimous vote.
According to the timetable, registry will run from May 19 to June 1st, while information drive will start May 19 and six days later the list will be released on the media with license to issue election propaganda.
Election propaganda will start June 9 through August 7, three days before the ballot, department electoral registers will be updated on June 11 and national election registers update will be on June 21st.
Voting is slated for August 10 and vote count will start on the same day at the departments and runoffs will follow two weeks later if any polling station is annulled.
After the vote count are completed, turn out will be officially submitted to the National Congress on September 8.
The referendum will involve all of Bolivia, save Chuquisaca that will elect its mayor on June 29.
To stay in office, the current officials can not get more votes against than those that brought them to their current offices.
So the president will be ousted if he gets over 53.7 percent of votes against, and so will the mayors scoring between 37.98 and 48.03 percent.
If the president is revoked, he is to convene for general elections within 90 to 180 days after turn out of the recall referendum is announced and will appoint an interim mayor until new elections are held.