Bolivia set to elect first non-left wing president in two decades

According to official preliminary results, Bolivia will elect a president from the left after the continuous administration that lasted for about twenty years.

Senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira and former President Jorge Quiroga ranked first and second in the presidential elections on Sunday.

Both of them did not get a high enough vote to get a clear win, so the vote will go to flow between these two candidates in October.

Paz Pereira of the Christian Democratic Party was a surprise vote leader after claiming that Samuel Doria Medina, a businessman, was a pioneer.

Election officials, the results of the results may take three days, he said.

Paz Pereira’s campaign focused on the redistribution of more funds from the central government to regional assets and the fight against corruption – the slogan “Capitalism for just a few people”.

A accessible credit program proposed to eliminate tax cuts and import barriers for Bolivia’s not produced to increase the official economy.

Quiroga served as a vice president of Hugo Banzer, a military dictator until he was elected later, and served as a temporary president between 2001-2002.

The election of a president from outside the left camp will probably see sharp changes in the foreign policy of the Latin American country.

In terms of trade, the capitalist postures of both candidates can provide more support for foreign investment in large lithium reserves of Bolivia, the main component for batteries used in many electric cars, laptops and solar panels.

Politically, a change in the government can mark the ties with the United States after strengthening the ties between Bolivia and China, Russia and Iran.

A recent US Congress report briefing, the US-Bailian relations under the rule of the socialist party “tense” described.

The country comes to the right return, fuel, foreign reserves and some foodstuffs and high inflation and debt scarcity and the worst economic crisis over the years.

Opinion surveys before the election claimed that many voters wanted to vote for change or punish the Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) party.

The current president, Luis Arce, which originated from deep popularity, decided not to be re -elected.

The penalty of the left is not only the election, but in some cases physical.

Mas candidate Eduardo del Castillo left the school he voted. Bolivian media, some voters instead of jumping the queue “to wait for fuel as it is in line” said.

When people went to throw the ballot output, they threw stones at Andrónico Rodríguez, the highest -folded left -winged candidate. Rodríguez was a MAS member before leaving the party.

Officials in Bolivia, Rodríguez’in voting station, a explosive device was launched, he said. There were no significant damage or injury reports.

Rodríguez described it as a “isolated event” organized by a “small group” to the Bolivian newspaper.

The left did not only face the latest popularity on the economy. It is also deeply divided.

For the first time in about twenty years, the former president Evo Morales was not in the ballot.

Morales directed the country between 2006-2019 and was banned from running again despite attempts to challenge legal and constitutional decisions to allow him to work for the fourth period.

He called on his supporters to invalidate their votes.

Rodríguez was once seen as a protection of Morales, but since then he has removed himself away from him.

The last election in 2019 was discussed and the protests exploded. Morales was accused of fraud after the auditors found irregularities by survey and resigned from the army under pressure.

In 2020, Luis Arce, a former Minister of Finance, under the direction of Morales, started to work as president. Morales announced that he would later return to politics in Bolivia and deprived Arce from the majority – that he turned the couple to rivals from allies.

Since then, there have been deep slits and power struggles in the Power Mas Party. Morales’s supporters organized protests and obstacles against the re -election ban on him, which sometimes returned to the deadly with the murder of some emergency intervention teams.

Judges ordered an arrest warrant for Morales for alleged sexual intercourse and rape of a 15 -year -old girl. He called on politically motivated charges.

He lives and operates in Chapare in Bolivia and is protected by his supporters.