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But with many months to go before ballots are cast, Ugarte is already in hot water with the city’s Ethics Commission.

But in early September the business groups fell short of securing the minimum number of valid signatures needed to qualify their initiative for the ballot.

He cast a long shadow over the campaign, and in the first round, got nearly one in five voters to spoil their ballot over his exclusion from the election.

As voting is mandatory in Bolivia, he urged his supporters to spoil their votes rather than cast a ballot paper for either of the two candidates in the run-off.

In 2018, he funded support for a San Francisco ballot measure aimed at raising corporate taxes to fund homeless services.