Bolivia is set to elect a non-left wing president after nearly two decades of near-continuous rule by the incumbent socialist party, according to official preliminary results. Senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira and former president Jorge Quiroga came in first and second place respectively in Sunday's presidential elections.

Voters sent two pro-business candidates to Bolivia’s presidential election runoff, ending two decades of almost-uninterrupted socialist rule and likely transforming both the nation’s economic model and its relations with Washington.

Bolivian presidential candidate Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga of the conservative Alianza Libre coalition reacts, as official results show him in second place in Sunday's presidential race, in La Paz, Bolivia, August 17, 2025. REUTERS/Claudia Morales

One candidate is Rodrigo Paz, a conservative centrist senator and son of a neoliberal ex-president who is pitching himself as a moderate reformer. The other is former right-wing president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga,

Bolivia’s charismatic, long-serving ex-President Evo Morales told The Associated Press on Saturday that he didn’t know what to do about threats by the right-wing presidential candidates to arrest him if they came to power.

A well-known figure in Bolivian politics, Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, 65, is a conservative candidate representing the Alianza Libre coalition. He briefly served as president from 2001 to 2002 and has worked as an IMF consultant and a mining executive.

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Archaeologists say they have uncovered an ancient temple in Bolivia that may offer clues about Tiwanaku, a lost society that predates the Inca Empire.

Right-wing candidates are the frontrunners in elections marked by economic crisis and division in the socialist ranks.