Bolivia’s center-right senator Rodrigo Paz and right-wing former president Jorge Quiroga will face off in an October 19 runoff election after ending two decades of leftist rule, according to final results.
Paz won Sunday’s first round with 32% of valid votes, while Quiroga secured 26.7%, according to the election commission on Thursday, August 21st.
With all the ballots counted, two decades of leftist rule is at an end. The Left came to power in 2005 when Indigenous coca farmer Evo Morales was elected president on a radical anti-capitalist platform.
The main leftist candidate, Senate president Andronico Rodriguez, came in fourth, with 8.5% of the vote.
Morales himself was barred from standing for a fourth term.
