Bolivia heads to a runoff after an election ends two decades of ruling party dominance, AP explains

Описание: (18 Aug 2025)
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Entre Rios, Bolivia - 17 August 2025
1. Election workers counting votes
2. Election worker announcing votes UPSOUND No name given (Spanish) "Null vote (spoilt ballot)"
3. Various of spoilt ballots

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La Paz, Bolivia - 18 August 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Isabel DeBre, The Associated Press: ++STARTS ON SHOT 1++
"Bolivia's first round of presidential elections on Sunday signaled an end to almost two decades of dominance by the leftist governing party. That was honestly widely expected because voters here have been frustrated, outraged over what's currently Bolivia worst economic crisis in almost four decades. But what was less expected was specifically who came out first."

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La Paz, Bolivia - 17 August 2025
5. Supporters of Bolivian presidential candidate Rodrigo Paz chanting
6. Supporters at rally with Paz
7. Paz gesturing to crowd

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La Paz, Bolivia - 18 August 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Isabel DeBre, The Associated Press: ++STARTS ON SHOT 5++
"Rather than the right-wing, more traditional figures that the pollsters had been and expecting, the number one spot was captured by centrist Senator Rodrigo Paz who had really been trailing in the polls but appealed to a lot of voters because of his more moderate approach. He pitched something called 'Capitalism for all'.

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La Paz, Bolivia - 17 August 2025
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rodrigo Paz, Bolivian presidential candidate:
"A country of equal society."

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Entre Rios, Bolivia - 17 August 2025
10. Various of election workers tallying votes on tally sheet

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La Paz, Bolivia - 18 August 2025
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Isabel DeBre, The Associated Press: ++STARTS ON SHOT 9++
"This idea that's more soft than some of these more intense austerity measures further on the right, but at the same time signaled a major change from 20 years of socialism. He captured the first spot, and on the second spot was taken by former president, a right-wing figure, Jorge 'Tuto' Quiroga."

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La Paz, Bolivia - 17 August 2025
12. Bolivian presidential candidate, Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, on stage
13. Mid of crowd chanting for Quiroga

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La Paz, Bolivia - 18 August 2025
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Isabel DeBre, The Associated Press: ++STARTS ON SHOT 13++
"Both of these men will face off against each other in an unprecedented runoff election in Bolivia that will take place on October 19th, and that will determine who will end up working in the presidential palace that you see behind me."

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ARCHIVE: La Paz, Bolivia - 27 June 2024
15. Various of presidential palace
STORYLINE:
Bolivia’s presidential vote is headed to an unprecedented runoff after Sunday's election ended over two decades of ruling party dominance in the Andean nation.

A centrist lawmaker from a prominent political family, Sen. Rodrigo Paz, and a right-wing former president, Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, will face off in October after a first round of voting knocked out candidates allied with the nation’s long-dominant Movement Toward Socialism, or MAS, party.

Paz, a former mayor, campaigned with the slogan “Capitalism for all” — rejecting the statist policies of MAS while pitching a more inclusive approach to rescuing Bolivia from its worst economic crisis in four decades.

He has promised to lower tariffs, reduce taxes and make small loans more accessible for entrepreneurs.










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