Bolivian centrist Senator Rodrigo Paz became the president-elect of Bolivia after defeating conservative former President Jorge Quiroga in Sunday’s runoff election.
Paz will succeed outgoing socialist President Luis Arce on November 8, ending two decades of rule by the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), at a time when Bolivia faces a dire economic crisis caused by Arce and MAS’s disastrous socialist policies.
Over 6.4 million Bolivians peacefully headed to the polls on Sunday to elect their new president for the next five years. Preliminary results from Bolivia’s electoral authority indicate that Paz obtained 54.5 percent of the votes, with his rival, former President Quiroga, obtaining 45.5 percent of the votes. In total, some 6.5 million votes were cast on Sunday.
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