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Bolivia Runoff Consolidates Fragmentation: Ruling Party Keeps Two Regions, Opposition Governs the Rest

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Voters in five Bolivian departments went to the polls on Sunday to complete the regional elections that began on March 22, in a runoff that consolidated a fragmented political map: President Rodrigo Paz's Patria coalition retained just two of nine governorships, while seven went to different opposition forces.

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The preliminary results of the second round of elections to elect departmental governors and municipal mayors in Bolivia give an overview of the loss of power at the local level of President Rodrigo Paz. The organization that the president forged with different local leaders, Alianza Patria, stayed with two of the nine departments that make up the country. Five of them were defined in a second round this Sunday, after last March 22 none of the c…

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El Nuevo Cambio. Latin American Summary, April 20, 2026 With the results of the second round to elect governors in five departments, the government of Rodrigo Paz Pereira obtained only one authority through the vote, although it also does not respond to its political line and in the others lost, in La Paz, with the complicity [...] La entrada Bolivia. With the balloting, government lost in 7 departments, won one and in La Paz, TSE imposed a gove…

Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz achieved only two allied governors of nine in dispute in a long election of governors and mayors who have reconfigured a fragmented political scenario without a hegemonic party.

After the conclusion of the second round the political configuration in the country was completed; the candidates of the party bloc of President Rodrigo Paz won only in two of the nine governorates. Elected governors allied to the ruling party: Jesús Eguez...

The president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz Pereira, said that the country entered a new political stage following the results of the election day in different departments, noting that an earlier political cycle would be closed and a process of renewal would take place.

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El Pais broke the news in Spain on Monday, April 20, 2026.
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