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Bolivia’s presidential vote goes to runoff between centrist and right-wing candidates
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Bolivia’s presidential vote goes to runoff between centrist and right-wing candidates

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By Tycoon Herald 7 Min Read Published August 18, 2025
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LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivia’s presidential vote headed to an unprecedented runoff after a vote Sunday that ended greater than 20 years of left-wing dominance within the Andean nation however signaled voters’ trepidation a few main lurch to the best.

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A darkish horse centrist, Sen. Rodrigo Paz, drew extra votes than the right-wing front-runners, though not sufficient to safe an outright victory, early outcomes confirmed.

Paz, a former mayor who has sought to melt the sides of the opposition’s push for powerful austerity to rescue Bolivia from financial collapse, will face off towards right-wing former President Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, who completed second. Bolivia will maintain the second spherical — its first presidential runoff since its 1982 return to democracy — on Oct. 19.

“Always Bolivia, everything for Bolivia,” Paz declared to cheering crowds. “This economic model must change.”

With over 91% of the ballots counted Sunday, Paz acquired 32.8% of the votes forged. Quiroga secured 26.4%. Candidates wanted to surpass 50%, or 40% with a 10-point margin of victory, to keep away from a runoff.

Addressing followers and flanked by household, Quiroga congratulated Paz on his lead.

“What happened is unprecedented. Bolivia told the world that we want to live in a free nation,” he stated. “It’s a historic night.”

A leftist institution confronts its demise

The outcomes delivered a significant blow to Bolivia’s hegemonic Motion Towards Socialism, or MAS, get together, which has ruled Bolivia virtually uninterrupted since its founder, charismatic ex-President Evo Morales, rose to energy as a part of the “pink tide” of leftist leaders that swept into workplace throughout Latin America throughout the commodities growth of the early 2000s.

The official MAS candidate, Eduardo del Castillo, completed sixth with simply 3.2% of the vote. The opposite leftist candidate thought-about to be the get together’s finest hope, 36-year-old Senate president Andrónico Rodríguez, captured 8% of the vote.

Throughout his virtually 14 years in energy, Morales expanded the rights of the nation’s Indigenous majority, defended coca growers towards U.S.-backed eradication applications and poured pure gasoline earnings into social applications and infrastructure.

However the maverick chief’s more and more high-handed makes an attempt to delay his presidency — together with allegations of sexual relations with underage women — soured public opinion towards him.

Simmering discontent was a tidal wave of anger on the MAS get together as Bolivia’s once-stable economic system imploded underneath Morales’ protégé-turned-rival, President Luis Arce.

This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Erin on Saturday.

Annual inflation charge has soared from 2% lower than two years in the past to over 16% as of final month. A shortage of gas has paralyzed the nation. A determined scarcity of U.S. {dollars} wanted to pay for important imports like wheat has crippled the economic system.

Because the disaster accelerated, MAS leaders traded blame. An influence battle between Morales and Arce finally fractured the get together and handed the opposition an actual shot at victory at the same time as its uncharismatic candidates didn’t unite.

A centrist takes a shock lead

The win for Paz got here as a shock to a nation that had been conditioned by weeks of opinion polls to anticipate that the main right-wing contenders, Quiroga and businessman Samuel Doria Medina, would seize the highest two spots.

Sunday marked Doria Medina’s fourth failed presidential bid. He informed grim-faced supporters that he had “no regrets.”

“I wanted to serve Bolivia as president, and it hasn’t been possible,” he stated.

The elevation of the extra average Paz apparently displays Bolivian ambivalence a few dramatic veer to the best.

Paz has sought to distance himself from pledges by Quiroga and Doria Medina to promote Bolivia’s considerable lithium reserves to overseas firms and switch to the Worldwide Financial Fund for billions of {dollars} of loans.

However he has additionally launched blistering assaults on the MAS get together and its state-directed financial insurance policies.

“I want to congratulate the people because this is a sign of change,” Paz stated. “They want a different future.”

New face, previous roots

Regardless of their grand guarantees for drastic change, Doria Medina and Quiroga struggled to fire up voter pleasure.

Bolivians affiliate them each with the U.S.-backed neoliberal administrations that Morales repudiated when he stormed to workplace in 2006, famously declaring an finish to Bolivia’s 20-year experiment with free-market capitalism.

Now, after 20 years of Morales’ populist, state-directed financial insurance policies, Bolivia faces a return to belt-tightening. After years of alignment with world powers like China and Russia, Bolivia appears set to reconcile with the USA.

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Paz supporters have described the previous mayor of the southern city of Tarija as a recent face with new concepts. However he, too, has deep ties to Bolivia’s previous political elite.

The 57-year-old lawmaker is the son of former President Jaime Paz Zamora, who started his political profession as a dedicated leftist and co-founded the Revolutionary Left Motion. He and his colleagues had been focused and persecuted underneath the bloody army dictatorship of Hugo Banzer within the Nineteen Seventies. Paz was born in exile in Spain throughout Banzer’s dictatorship.

However in a dramatic flip, Paz Zamora later struck a pact with Banzer’s right-wing get together and managed to function president from 1989 to 1993. Doria Medina served as his minister of planning.

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