Bolivia presidential election: preliminary results put two rightwing candidates in run-off vote | Bolivia

Bolivia’s presidential election will go to a escape for the first time, the two right-wing candidates will compete for the presidency-left-left Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) by the end of the dominance of about 20 years.

However, it turned out that the most voting candidate was a surprise: the 57 -year -old center -right senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira started the campaign with only 3% support in viewing surveys.

Secondly, after the resignation of a former dictator Hugo Banzer in 2001, 65 -year -old Jorge, a former right -wing president who led the country briefly, came to Quiroga.

With more than 92% of the votes listed in the “pre -” installment of the election court, Paz Pereira was 32.1% and Quiroga was 26.9%.

Pereira, the son of former President Jaime Paz Zamora, who was ruled between 1989-1993, said, “I would like to thank all the men and women who make this possible and have none of them, who do not appear in the crates, disappear, and do not exist.”

Pereira, the senator of Tarija, was influenced by the former police captain Edman Lara Montaño, a former police captain, who was a decisive lottery for voters, who revealed his police corruption and according to many analysts.

“We will fight against the head of corruption, damn it!” Pereira shouted at the journalists and dozens of supporters waiting for him to speak at La Paz on Sunday.

Quiroga said: “A historic night – not for a party, not for a fraction, not for a candidacy, not for a candidacy, for all the Bolivians who speak with power, belief, hope and dignity. Today, we took a giant step towards a better tomorrow.”

The election court emphasized that the numbers are “not pre -and precise”. The reason for this is that Bolivia uses two censuses: the more slowly precisely that each votes sent to a data processing center and the photos of each ballot and each vote is explained and examined at the voting stations before entering the system.

The court has up to seven days to release the official results.

Since both of them do not take more than 50% or at least 40% of the votes, a second round will be held on October 19, as they do not take a 10 -point ahead of the second.

As in the first round, the current campaign is expected to dominate with the economic crisis-forty years of the worst of the year and the lack of fuel and increasing inflation.

President Luis Arce, who is not deep popular from MAS, put forward the 36 -year -old Eduardo Del Castillo, who won only 3.15% of the votes, instead of not looking for elections again.

Compared to more than 50% of the first round of victories for Arce and former president Evo Morales in the past, but the threshold was determined as 3% to prevent the party from losing its legal status.

According to the front number, 19.1% of the ballots were invalid – above the historical average in the Bolivian elections, which typically below 5%.

Bolivia’s first domestic leader Morales had spent last weeks Null and calls for empty votes Protest against the decisions of the Constitutional and Election Courts from searching for the fourth term.

The 66 -year -old King Samuel Doria Medina, who pioneered the surveys in most of the campaign, came third with 19.89% of the votes.

Doria Medina He accepted his defeat and Paz announced that he would support Pereira in the stream.

Bolivia in the press, Analysts suggested A possible advantage for Paz Pereira is that the campaign war in recent weeks is concentrated between Quiroga, Doria Medina and the left, and excludes the Senator’s main attack line – even excluded false news campaigns.

In addition, the surveys stated that there were still many undecided voters before the election day.

The highest -row -left -handed candidate, 36 -year -old Senator Andrónico Rodríguez left Mas to run with a small coalition. After conducting a high survey as the third, it was finally fourth just over 8%.

The bodies, including the European Union and the American States Organization, watched more than 2,500 national and international observer voting and were expected to publish their preliminary reports in the coming days. They said that the vote was normal during the day.

According to the election court, the election took place without any problems except for some “isolated events”.

One of them included Rodríguez. While voting for Entre Ríos, a Morales Castle, about 50 miles away from the former president’s settled, was booed 36 -year -old senator and pelled with stones described As a small pro -excessive group defined as the supporters of Morales ”.

Rodríguez had to accompany a member of the Armed Forces to vote. He wasn’t injured. When he was once seen as his natural heir to Morales’s native roots and the leadership of coca breeders, the senator was called traitor to start his candidacy.

Since October, Morales, who has been alleged to be a father with a 15 -year -old child, voted at the villa 14, about 25 miles from the small village, where hundreds of coca breeders prevented the police and the army from detaining the former president.

Morales rejects that he committed any crime and claims that the case is part of the plan to destroy it politically by the current government.

President Arce, who served as the Minister of Finance of Morales before becoming his main rival, voted at La Paz and said that in November he would provide a “absolutely democratic transition” when the next President was sworn in.