{"id":487404,"date":"2025-10-19T20:09:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T00:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/rodrigo-paz-wins-the-second-round-of-the-presidential-election-in-bolivia\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T20:25:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T00:25:22","slug":"rodrigo-paz-wins-the-second-round-of-the-presidential-election-in-bolivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/rodrigo-paz-wins-the-second-round-of-the-presidential-election-in-bolivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodrigo Paz wins the second round of the presidential election in Bolivia"},"content":{"rendered":"Rodrigo Paz Pereira, candidate of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC), won the second round of the presidential elections in Bolivia. With this victory, Paz becomes the new president of the country, marking the end of two decades of dominance by the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS).\n\nCentrist opposition senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira is the new president of Bolivia after defeating former conservative president Jorge Tuto Quiroga in the unprecedented second round held this Sunday with 54.53% of the votes, according to preliminary information released by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal with just over 97% of the processed records.\n\nIn this unprecedented second round, Paz obtained 15,611 valid votes, while his main contender, Jorge \u201cTuto\u201d Quiroga of the Libre alliance, received 13,468 votes. Electoral participation was 38.5%, with a total of 30,531 votes cast, including null and blank votes.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You can read: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/presidente-de-peru\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President of Peru meets with heads of electoral bodies six months before elections<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nPaz&#8217;s victory represents a shift towards market policies and an approach to the United States, in contrast to the socialist policies of the MAS.\n\nPaz will assume the presidency on November 8, 2025, facing the challenge of stabilizing an economy marked by 23% inflation, shortages of dollars and fuel, and an informal economy that represents 84% of the country&#8217;s workforce.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodrigo Paz Pereira, candidate of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC), won the second round of the presidential elections in Bolivia. With this victory, Paz becomes the new president of the country, marking the end of two decades of dominance by the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS). Centrist opposition senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira is the new president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":487405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-22Nm","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-10-19-200717.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-10-19-200717.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}