President Evo Morales enjoyed a high popularity and the ruling MSA party controlled a majority of seats in the Congress. Opposition political parties，including the FA and the PT，sought to forge a political alliance. Aimed at promoting a state led development model，the Morales government continued to push the nationalization reform in 2013. The economic growth rate in 2013 was higher than that in 2012. There was an improvement of major economic indicators and a large increase of government revenue. The government expanded expenditure on social welfare programs and introduced new labor policies. As a result of the emergency landing of President Morales’s plane in Austria，Bolivia’s relations with the United States and 4 European countries were strained.