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Bolivia Heads to Runoff After Rodrigo Paz Leads Vote, Ending MAS's 20-Year Rule
- Bolivians voted on August 17, 2025, for president and parliament in La Paz, triggering the country's first-ever presidential runoff between centrist Rodrigo Paz and right-wing Jorge Quiroga.
- The runoff followed an electoral rule requiring over 50% of votes or 40% with a 10-point lead, which no candidate met amid economic crisis and fragmentation of the ruling Movement Toward Socialism party.
- Rodrigo Paz led with around 32 percent, Quiroga placed second near 26 percent, and millionaire Samuel Doria Medina finished third with about 20 percent, while Morales-supporting candidates trailed.
- The election day passed peacefully with isolated incidents that did not affect voting, but experts warned right-wing victories could harm Indigenous and impoverished communities reliant on subsidies.
- The runoff on October 19 could end 20 years of leftist rule, bring austerity measures like subsidy cuts, and lead to closer U.S. ties amid hopes to address Bolivia's economic collapse and inflation near 25 percent.
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DailyTruthReportSocialism suffers its first defeat in Bolivia in 20 years with right wing and centrist candidates headed to a runoff
Voters in Bolivia rejected socialist candidates for the first time in over 20 years in their presidential election Sunday. Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales and his Movement Toward Socialism, or MAS party, dominated politics since his first election in 2005. But the Latin American country signaled a shift to the right Sunday, according to an unofficial early count. Centrist Senator Rodrigo Paz and right-wing former president Jorge “Tuto” Qu…
To weigh the serious economic situation of the South American country and the rifts inside the left party
Bolivia rejects two decades of left-wing government but next president still to be decided in runoff
Centrist Rodrigo Paz and right-wing Jorge Quiroga will go head-to-head in an October runoff after Bolivian voters rejected two-decades of left-wing rule in Sunday's presidential vote.
Almost eight million people were called to vote in Bolivia, and they are clearly demanding a change of policy. The South American country is in a deep economic crisis.
Read on Il Fatto Quotidiano.it the elections in Bolivia that will see an unprecedented ballot between right candidates. Morales fears the arrest: "I am in the sights of the empire of the right"
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