Between Rodrigo Paz and Jorge Quiroga, the person who will succeed 19 years of electoral victories for the MAS will emerge. Argentina is the foreign country with the most Bolivian voters.
Some 7,567,207 voters are preparing to define the new political cycle of Boliviaafter two decades of the MAS party government, led by Evo Morales. This Sunday’s runoff will define the new presidency between Rodrigo Paz Pereira and Jorge “Tuto” Quirogaboth from the political right spectrum. Neither of the two will have a legislative majority in Congress, so it will have to be a coalition administration until 2030.
The electoral surprise of the August 17 general elections was the defeat of the poll favorite, the businessman Samuel Doria Medina, who received 19.69% of the votes. The performance of the official candidate was also worse than expected, Andronico Rodriguezcurrent president of the national Senate, who barely reached 8.51% of the votes. The presence of Evo Morales He expressed himself at the polls despite his disqualification from competing: there were 19.2% of null votes. “Nor there will be an agreement with none“, anticipated the former president.
Unexpectedly, the overall winner was Rodrigo Paz Pereira with 32.1% of the votes. Representative of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC) and son of the former president Jaime Paz Zamorawas mayor of Tarija and is currently a national senator. He promised the unification of the exchange rate, tax reduction, the liberalization of foreign trade and the expansion of social benefits, which is why he absorbed voters from different ideological spectrums.
Your competitor is Jorge “Tuto” Quirogafrom the coalition Free Alliance. Former president of Bolivia between 2001 and 2002 (he served as vice president and assumed office due to the state of health of the then president, Hugo Banzer), he reached 26.81% of the votes with a program of structural reforms: reduction of financial regulations and crypto narrative, decentralization of the health system and incentive for foreign investment.
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Argentina, key in the registry of foreigners
Inside the electoral roll of Boliviathere are 369,931 citizens qualified to vote who reside outside Bolivian territory. Almost half of them could vote in Argentina: 162,531 Bolivians are registered to cast their vote in dozens of authorized centers throughout the country. In the city of Buenos Aires alone there are 24 (distributed in the neighborhoods of Retiro, Balvanera, Boedo, Flores, Parque Patricios, Villa Lugano, Liniers and Villa Soldati). Operations are also expected in the vice consulates of La Plata, La Matanza, Pilar, Córdoba, Jujuy, La Quiaca, Mendoza, Orán, Salvador Mazza, Rosario, Salta, Viedma and Comodoro Rivadavia.
Among the countries with the largest number of Bolivians registered to vote are Spain (82,273), Brazil (47,623), Chile (44,801) and the United States (15,222).
Source: Ambito
