US EditionRodrigo Paz wins Bolivia presidential election, ending 20 years of socialist rule
Rodrigo Paz won 54.6% of the vote, promising gradual free-market reforms amid Bolivia's worst economic crisis with 23% inflation and fuel shortages, ending MAS's 20-year rule.
- On Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025, Rodrigo Paz, centrist senator and president-elect, won Bolivia's presidential runoff with 54%, ending nearly 20 years of Movement Toward Socialism party rule and preparing to take office on Nov. 8.
- Facing a 23% inflation rate and dollar shortages, Bolivia suffers fuel shortages and long lines as declining energy revenues worsened import problems under the outgoing Movement Toward Socialism party.
- Paz's economic platform promises gradual free-market reforms, while Edman Lara, ex-police captain and running mate, helped galvanize working-class and Indigenous Aymara voters across six of nine departments.
- Quiroga conceded and called for calm, supporters in La Paz celebrated with fireworks, and the U.S. State Department, Gideon Sa'ar, and Marco Rubio congratulated Paz, with Rubio saying it's "a transformative opportunity".
- Paz inherits a recessionary economy and must replenish foreign currency reserves and fuel imports while facing political resistance from Evo Morales and warnings from the World Bank about social unrest.
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On October 19, Bolivians elected Rodrigo Paz Pereira to the presidency. A center-right senator and son of former president Jaime Paz Zamora (1989-1993), Paz ran on a platform of “Capitalism For All,” defeating conservative former president Jorge Quiroga in a run-off.
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