Bolivia heads to runoff
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A day after the left-wing party that has governed Bolivia for 20 years lost a first-round presidential vote, the race was on Monday to see who will succeed it. Sen. Rodrigo Paz, a center-right lawmaker from a prominent political family who scored a surprise first-place finish Sunday,
Early official result showed the ruling Movement for Socialism (MAS) on track for its worst election defeat in a generation.
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Bolivia’s presidential vote is headed to an unprecedented runoff after Sunday's election ended over two decades of ruling party dominance in the Andean nation.
A well-known figure in Bolivian politics, Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, 65, is a conservative candidate representing the Alianza Libre coalition. He briefly served as president from 2001 to 2002 and has worked as an IMF consultant and a mining executive.
Bolivia is headed to a presidential run-off election between a center-right politician and a right-wing candidate after voters on Sunday rejected another term of the Movement for Socialism.
Bolivia is set to elect a non-left wing president after nearly two decades of near-continuous rule by the incumbent socialist party, according to official preliminary results. Senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira and former president Jorge Quiroga came in first and second place respectively in Sunday's presidential elections.
Rodrigo Paz, who had trailed in the polls, won the first round of the presidential election on Sunday, as decades of dominance by a leftist party neared an end.
Bolivia’s charismatic, long-serving ex-President Evo Morales told The Associated Press on Saturday that he didn’t know what to do about threats by the right-wing presidential candidates to arrest him if they came to power.
Bolivia is heading for an unprecedented presidential run-off election between centrist and conservative candidates in October after preliminary results showed a collapse for the ruling leftwing Movimiento al Socialismo for the first time in 20 years.
After a campaign overshadowed by economic troubles, Bolivians voted on Sunday for a new president and parliament in elections that could see a right-wing government elected for the first time in
Bolivia’s richest man went all out in this election cycle to publicly back a candidate that he thought could win the vote, unseat the ruling socialists and lift the nation out of acute economic crisis.