Bolivia Defines Whether to Turn to the Center or Right in an Unprecedented Presidential Runoff

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LA PEACE, Bolivia (AP) — For the first time in their history, Bolivians went to a second round on Sunday to elect their new president between centrist senator Rodrigo Paz and former conservative president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, marking...

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After 20 years of MAS rule, the candidates for the ballot seem like a return to the 20th century. On the one hand there is Rodrigo Paz, the senator of the Christian Democratic Party, who is the son of former President Jaime Paz Zamora, who ruled between 1989 and 1993. On the other hand, the representative of the Free Alliance, Jorge Tuto Quiroga, was president between 2001 and 2002, completing the government of Hugo Banzer, which began in 1997.I…

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Breaking with 20 years of socialist government, Bolivians will vote on Sunday for one of the two right-wing candidates in the presidential elections.

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The candidates Rodrigo Paz and Jorge Quiroga put forward similar recipes in the second round of the presidential elections, marked by the economic recession and with a left practically nullified politically

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C. González/ AFPLA PAZ. Two right-wing proposals for a country in crisis: Bolivians will elect a president this Sunday in balloting that will mark the end of 20 years of left-wing governments with the mission of pushing forward an economy in red. Without dollars or fuels, and with annual inflation that exceeds 23%, voters buried in the first round of the Movement to Socialism (MAS) led by Evo Morales. Bolivians will choose between center-right l…

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With no candidate securing the necessary majority in the first round of the presidential election, 65-year-old right-wing former president Jorge Quiroga and 58-year-old center-right senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira are now facing off in the second round of the election.